Zephyr
Hmm, now I'm curious what would happen if the brains were completely decomposed. Although, in that case, I think the doctors are less likely to be mistaken about the patient's being clinically dead
The faculties that people lose after brain damage, e.g. in car accidents, suggest to me that consciousness is limited by our wetware, but that's just one opinion.
Objectively reading that article, one might convey that the dissertations within the report, constructively oppose your view(s), in reference of your insoluble resistance, thus having refuted the findings reported in the article, after which you gave subsequent to your patent interpretation of the article.
The article:
http://neardeath.home.comcast.net/news/020629.html
".........................."The brain function these patients were found to have while unconscious is commonly believed to be incapable of sustaining lucid thought processes or allowing lasting memories to form, Parnia said — pointing to the fact that nobody fully grasps how the brain generates thoughts.
The brain itself is made up of cells, like all the body's organs, and is not really capable of producing the subjective phenomenon of thought that people have, he said.
He speculated that human consciousness may work independently of the brain, using the gray matter as a mechanism to manifest the thoughts, just as a television set translates waves in the air into picture and sound."......................."
For the sake of a vigorous angular dialogue, let us discern from the psychical approach to/of this squabble, and wade through a more empirical loom.
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?noframes;read=6413
“………………………….”Another British astrophysicist and sub-atomic researcher, Michael Scott, BSc, a graduate of Edinburgh University, cites Niels Bohr's "Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics"
as seeming to actually require the existence of consciousness as a non-material extension to space-time. Scott makes the point that sub-atomic physics, as explored by he and other researchers worldwide, no longer views the building blocks of the universe as discrete particles of solid substance, but rather as vague, wavelike structures whose existence borders on the
ethereal. Scott further states that: "The advancement of quantum physics has produced a description of reality which allows the existence of parallel universes. Composed of real substance, they would not interact directly with matter from our universe."……………………………………..”
Crunchy Cat
That information might be little behind the times there Johnny. Several hospotals have rigged their operating rooms with monitors and very easy to recognize images on those monitors that sit on cabinets and face upwards. People whom experience a NDE/OOBE in the operating room would easily see the images and be able to communicate what they were. To date not a single person was even aware that the images were there.
What these experiences are evidence for is what happens to a human perception in extreme conditions.
Tis an interesting, yet a somewhat absent theory, dearth of insight and clear profundity, one might argue.
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?noframes;read=6413
“………………..”A quote from Arthur Schopenhauer describes the current situation in the study of sub-atomic physics as it relates to ongoing life now being at the second stage, and nearing the third: "Any
unexplained phenomenon passes through three stages before the reality of it is accepted. During the first stage it is considered laughable. During the second stage, it is adamantly
opposed. Finally, during the third stage, it is accepted as self-evident."………………………..”
