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Re:Under anesthesia, where do our minds go? by dsego on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @11:39AM (#32251812)
Plenty of NDE reports to keep your hopes up. Unless the whole reincarnation trap and erasing memories is real, that would suck.
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Re:Under anesthesia, where do our minds go? by pavlov on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @11:48AM (#32251951)
How are near-death experiences proof of anything else than brain activity when in a critical state but not yet dead?

IMO it's like saying "exception handlers are proof that Unix processes can't be terminated."

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Re:Under anesthesia, where do our minds go? by dsego on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @12:34PM (#32252657)
I think you can find stories of patients who have had out of body experiences when there was no brain activity. Not sure how valid those are, but still gives me pause.
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Re:Under anesthesia, where do our minds go? by alok-g on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @12:14PM (#32252360)
+1

The default assumption should be that NDEs are hallucinations in a brain moving towards dysfunction.

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Re:Under anesthesia, where do our minds go? by mitchdoogle on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @12:43PM (#32252786)
The interesting thing about them is similarity across time and cultures.
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Re:Under anesthesia, where do our minds go? by alok-g on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @12:58PM (#32252999)
Why is the similarity interesting? Isn't that rather expected, being about aspects of the brain, as opposed to that of the times or cultures?
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