Tag: science
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The number of Intensive Care patients who experience NDEs might be higher than we think.
Article: Incidence of near-death experiences in patients surviving a prolonged critical illness and their long-term impact: a prospective observational study.Author(s): Anne-Francoise Rousseau et al.Journal: Critical CareDate published: Feburary 2023Link to full paper. It would make sense that with more people surviving severe illness and trauma in our intensive care units (ICUs), there would be a…
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Identifying the Near Death Experience.
The Near-Death Experience scale was developed in 1983 by Dr Bruce Greyson in an attempt to provide a reliable, valid and simple way for clinicians to identify an NDE. It consisted of 16 questions, and the person would choose from a series of provided (weighted) responses for each one. Link to Bruce Greyson’s original 1983…
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Is your houseplant conscious?
Contrary to what it is commonly assumed, plants seem to be capable of many of the cognitive abilities traditionally assumed to be exclusive to animals. Hence, the behavioral evidence thus suggests that plants could qualify to be sentient organisms. Segundo-Ortin, Miguel et al. This article recently published in the Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science explores…
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Book review: Why Materialism is Baloney
Why Materialism is Baloney is a book about the philosophical hypothesis of analytical idealism. Most of us have been brought up to believe that the world we inhabit is made up of matter. From snickers bars to the Milky Way, everything is made up of bits of material stuff that are in turn made up of…
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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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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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