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Consciousness after death?

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From Sean Martin at  UK Express:

Lead researcher Dr Sam Parnia said: “Contrary to perception, death is not a specific moment but a potentially reversible process that occurs after any severe illness or accident causes the heart, lungs and brain to cease functioning.

“If attempts are made to reverse this process, it is referred to as ‘cardiac arrest’; however, if these attempts do not succeed it is called ‘death’.”

Of the 2,060 patients from Austria, the US and the UK interviewed for the study who had survived cardiac arrest, almost 40 per cent said that they recall some form of awareness after being pronounced clinically dead. More.

Natural death is usually a process, so such a finding should not seem surprising.

See also: What great physicists have aid about immateriality and consciousness

and

Neuroscience tried wholly embracing naturalism, but then the brain got away

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