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I don't think I have grounds to argue against this take. I think the definition of death changes over time as medical technology advances in its ability to ret

• whatshisface 3y ago
  If your brain is working well enough to have thoughts about its experiences, I don't see how you could call that death when people whose brains are not working that well at all, are alive.
  • Buttons840 3y ago
    It's also important to remember that we don't know what we experienced in the past, only what our fallible memories of the past are. This applies to more than just near-death experiences.
  • nativeit 3y ago
    It’s an open question in many (most?) of the reported NDEs as to whether their experiences were contemporaneous with their “deaths”, or rather their brain’s retrospective backfilling of the period when it was oxygen-starved and neurotransmitters lacked the ability to regulate their concentration and flow. I’m not a neuroscientist (or any kind of scientist) but I don’t think the consensus involves approaching reported subjective experiences from a presumption that they reflect the literal experience of death in the more permanent sense.
    • yencabulator 3y ago
      I think the naming fruits test with the headphones was meant to cover this. The evidence seems to point at "nobody formed memories of language sounds while they were flatlining", the one correct answer matches expected random chance.
  • thghtihadanacct 3y ago
    Wasnt there something on here recently about EKG signals an hour after cardiac arrest?