Tag: Brain
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Podcast: Intervew with Christopher Timmerman.
In this interview neuroscientist Christoper Timmermann discusses the role of psychedelics as an entheogen (aid to spiritual transformation) as well as its relationship to death and ego dissolution.
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Aware of aware discusses AI and consciousness.
Over at the website Aware of Aware, Bem Williams critiques a recent you tube video in which Chat GPT (dressed in a slightly annoying female avatar) discusses its own consciousness. Ben looks at this suggestion of self-reported consciousness (and the confusion between consciousness and intelligence) from the perspective of consciousness surviving death. Here is the…
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Has science just found the cause of near-death experiences?
Many science-related websites and news organisations are now reporting on a new study that found an increase in EEG gamma waves at the time of death. The authors of the study analysed the electroencephalograms (EEG) of four dying patients and found that the resulting hypoxic (lack of oxygen) state stimulated a spike in gamma wave…
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Pamela Reynolds. The most interesing NDE of all time?
Pamela Reynolds was an American singer-songwriter (she died in 2010) who had an NDE in 1991 at the age of 35.She was being operated on to treat a large brain-stem aneurysm, a surgery that required lowering her body temperature to 10 C and stopping her heart (a procedure known as hypothermic cardiac arrest). During this…
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Is reality like your computer desktop?
Donald Hoffman is a psychologist, philosopher and professor at the Department of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California. He is also author of a book: The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes. Professor Hoffman is another scientist who is exploring the possibility that the consensus reality we take for granted as…
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Acquired and sudden savant syndrome
Full disclosure: I have a somewhat heretical view of the origin of consciousness. My intuition (supported by a small but growing number of respected scientists and philosophers, and an abundance of contemplatives and mystics) is that consciousness is not produced by our brain. Instead, the brain acts as a ‘reducing valve’ or filter of a…
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