Tag: science
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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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A Dutch study on NDE
A Near-Death Experience (NDE) is a form of non-ordinary experience that can be summarised as: “the reported memory of a range of impressions during a special state of consciousness, including a number of special and universal reported elements such as an out-of-body experience, pleasant feelings, seeing a tunnel, a light, deceased relatives, a life review,…
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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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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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Physics: Things are getting reassuringly weird
In this short article, cognitive scientist and author Donald Hoffman reminds us that right now physicists are questioning the very existence of our fundamental subjective experiences of space and time.The big question is: What lies beyond? Hoffman argues that the problem in answering this question lies in the fact that we have evolved to possess senses (sight, hearing,…
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Does ChatGPT think there is life after death?
Ian Wardell is a philosopher and deep thinker who writes about psi phenomenon and the possibility of an afterlife at his blog: Philosophical Thoughts. A lot of good stuff worth browsing through. In a recent post, he has a fascinating ‘conversation’ about life after death and consciousness with ChatGPT which is a question/answer interface driven by artificial intelligence.…
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