The news was presented at the AAAS meeting in Phoenix, Arizona. Anna Fowler presented a synthesis of dozens of studies on near-death experiences and neuroelectrical activity around cardiac arrest. - https://particle.news/story/aaas-presentation-argues-consciousness-may-persist-minutes-to-hours-after-clinical-death
Consciousness barely lasts a couple seconds without bloodflow though. Clearly a clickbait title that is intentionally misleading.
Proven by data from those killed by guillotine.
I could nominate some people for further testing with that instrument
I have “died” once. I must be defective, or not have a soul, or something, because I can only remember waking from the coma 3 days later.
Yeah I remember the record for a beheading test was like 30-45 seconds where the guy who was executed basically tried to blink every second to confirm he was conscious, and iirc the average was agreed to be something like 15 seconds tops
That’s not disturbing at all.
Sure, bring them back after they realize heaven and hell are bullshit.
Electrical activity in dead brains is just chemical potentials that take a while to break down. No one, ever, has actually come back from actual death.
As long as you keep moving the bar of actual death. Heart stop, ‘brain death’ people have come back from, rotting in the grave, not so much.
I don’t even want consciousness while I’m ALIVE.
Go to sleep?
he wants unconsciousness. let’s drug him
I’m not looking forward to dying.
I’m fine with afterwards, it’s the process that I really, really don’t want to deal with. I’ve been dead before, we all have, it was fine. We’ll be fine, you won’t worry or feel bad at all, for like… forever. But man, I really don’t want to be locked in my body in a hospital bed for 3 weeks with inadequate painkillers and no way to do anything about it.
Yeah, the process is bad. Simply not existing seems fine. I seem fine with it before birth, so. If it’s not instantaneous and painless…eurgh no thanks.
Considering low oxygen to the brain after 6 minutes results in brain damage occuring, would you really want to be brought back a vegetable?
I was born dead for several minutes; sometimes i wonder if could be smarter i given more favorable ircumstances
Yeah, that would be a high priority item that I’m sure was part of the talk.
I always wanted to go out by jumping into a volcano when I feel that life is spent so this is just validating that idea
Edit: I have been corrected so I’ll just use my gun instead (also this isn’t a suicidal thing, I just will not experience consciousness after death cos that’s horrifying so I’m going out on my own terms, glad to find out that volcano jumping wouldn’t be as releasing as I had thought)
Make sure to livestream it, shouting “try this, kids at home!”
I’ll just use my gun instead of jumping
On the off-chance you’re not joking don’t actually do that. I thought we were doing some edgy humour it’s not actually a good suggestion.
No joking here. I don’t think the world wants to see my brains splatter though so I wasn’t planning on live streaming. Don’t worry though, it’s not a suicidal thing, more like a “when I’m terminally ill and going to go on my terms” thing and if consciousness is in the equation after death, I’d like to make sure that doesn’t happen so no brain would remedy that.
Paywall
I’ve always wondered if your personal version of heaven or hell in the afterlife boils down to the deepest parts of your self and lingering consciousness tied to the neurochemical and electrical activity that happens after cardiac arrest.
You know how our sense of time is so warped when we dream, and you can fall asleep for just a few minutes but from your perspective a dream can feel so much longer?
I figure if there was ever the perfect time for your subconscious to come back and either bite you in the ass with guilt, shame, and regret for all the the things you’ve done that you never set right, or alternatively, maybe give you a sense of comfort if you feel you have made peace with your life on earth, it would probably be during this time.
Think of it like being in an isolation tank. Maybe some fuzzy outside information still makes its way in to influence what’s going on inside of the tank, but mostly it’s just you and your thoughts for (what feels like) all eternity.
This is actually a pretty well researched theory, mechanism is supposed to be pineal gland dumping DMT, lot of overlap between accounts of recreational users and survivors of near death experiences
I presume this depends heavily on the methid (and definition) of death.
Didn’t Sam Parnia confirm this already?
