Tag: NeuroScience
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Music of the hemispheres.
I have been thinking about this video a lot today. Lucy is a 13-year-old girl who lives in the UK. She has autism, and severe learning difficulties and is blind after being born with cancerous tumours in her eyes. You are about to watch her play Chopin’s Nocturne Op.9 No.1 Wow.What is going on here?……just…
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Things are not as they seem.
Take a look around you. Everything you see, hear and touch is only an illusion constructed in your head.Don’t believe me? Read on…. “Take a simple object; something right at hand: a pen.Hold it in your hand; look at it; tap it on the desktop, and listen to the sound. Now, consider your experience of…
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Are fish conscious beings?
This article published in Aeon looks at the question of sentience in fish. In me at least, when I stop and think about it, this raises a creeping feeling of unease. There is an increasing body of evidence that challenges our sapiens-centric claim to being the consciousness boss of things around here. If even fish are…
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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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Can recalled experiences of Death (RED) be explained as just brain activity between clinical death and brain death?
Paper: Neuro-functional modeling of near-death experiences in contexts of altered states of consciousness.Author(s): Raymond Romand and Gunter EhretJournal: Frontiers in PsychologyLink to full article. In this paper, Romand and Ehret look at the phenomenon of RED or near-death experience as simply an epiphenomenon due to the neuro-functioning of the brain at the time of death.As…
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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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