Tuesday, 16 October 2012

On NDE

Near-Death Episodes Are Brainy, Not Soulful

NDEs are fascinating phenomena, but they don't prove the existence of the soul.
By Christian Jarrett, 15/10/12, on Psychology Today

Extract:
"Philosophers have grappled with the question of how the mind is related to the brain for millennia. It’s hard to equate the richness of our mental lives with the lump of warm meat in our heads, but the view of mainstream neuroscience is that the mind is an emergent property of the brain. Without the brain, there is no mind, and every mental experience has an underlying neurophysiological correlate."


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