Quote:Interestingly, CCoh in SHRSP rats exhibited a dramatic surge (hyperconnectivity) within one hour of cardiac arrest, indicating that the brain is internally super-activated at near-death. The neurophysiological mechanisms underlying the marked surge of the functional coupling within the brain after ischemia is still unknown. Nevertheless, the large increase of brain functional synchronization after forebrain ischemia until sudden death is consistent with our earlier findings in both potassium chloride injection and asphyxia-induced cardiac arrest models, in which a dramatic increase of both functional and effective connectivity was identified within the brain before sudden death (Li et al. 2015). The identification of dramatic surge of CCoh exclusively in rats that suffered from focal ischemic stroke provides further experimental support for our central hypothesis that the brain plays an active role in the dying process
A little off-topic for this forum, but I think this new relatively brief and uniquely lucid exposition/summary of the situation now confronting modern physics deserves a little attention: "Einstein's Quest to 'Know God's Thoughts' Could Take Millenia", by Fermilab physics researcher Don Lincoln.
Not unsurprisingly, this scientist/writer carefully doesn't look at the larger implications. That even such an ultimate synthesis necessarily leaves out the mystery of the ultimate origin of such incredible design, such as for instance the origin of the multiple levels of "fine tuning" for life that pervades nature. Or the suspicion that perhaps such a grand theory may be fundamentally beyond Man's grasp for more fundamental metaphysical reasons.
"Historically, scientists have shown how seemingly unrelated phenomena originate from a single underlying force. We imagine that this process will continue, resulting in a theory of everything:"
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