Tag: Consciousness
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Awareness during resuscitation
Title: Awareness During Resuscitation – II: A Multi-Center Study of Consciousness and Awareness in Cardiac Arrest.Author: Sam Parina et alJournal: In pre-print. A pre-print version of the Aware II paper is now available online (not yet peer reviewed). The final version may get locked away behind a paywall so its worth grabbing a copy now…
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What happens with the mind when the brain dies?
Title: What Happens with the Mind when the Brian Dies?Author: Alex Gomez-Marin Behavior of Organism Lab, Instituto de Neurociencias (CSIC-UMH), Alicante, SpainPublished: Organisms. Journal of Biological Sciences.Download as PDF The author covers the topics of consciousness and death following his own Near Death Experience in 2021. During this event he found himself in a vertical…
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Dr Bettina Peyton
A story published in EXPLORE: The Journal of Science & Healing recounts the Near-Death Experience (NDE) of Bettina Peyton a now-retired doctor. Dr Peyton’s NDE occurred in 1988 when she was 32 years old and working at Tufts New England Medical Centre in the US. Prior to her experience Dr Peyton had no belief in life after…
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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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Book review. The Matter With Things
You are probably familiar with the idea that the two sides of our brains are responsible for different functions of our personality. For example, that our left hemisphere is more analytical, maths-oriented, more reasoning and ordered, whilst the right side is more creative, artistic, intuitive. Well this popular idea that our personalities are more dominated…
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Federico Faggin on consciousness.
Federico Faggin is a physicist and inventor of both the microprocessor (the Intel 4004) and silicon gate technology. In this interview, he discusses his evolving views on consciousness, artificial intelligence, non-duality and his own spiritual epiphanies. This is not a hit-and-split entertaining watch whilst waiting to pick up the kids. This is a percolating, slow…
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