Keith Augustine interview

You might study what medical EEG is actually measuring, so that you understand the limitations of medical EEG. A major problem for your argument is the existence of well known organisms - such as paramecium - which navigate within spacetime, and exhibit complex behavior, but which do not contain any neurons at all.

I am aware that EEGs measure only the upper layers of the brain, and not deeper activity. Couple of things here: There's no evidence that deeper structures in the brain are associated with anything like waking experience, much less the kind of experiences that are reported in NDEs; many of the experiences remember the experience vividly even though they don't remember other events in the vicinity of the NDE. Now, you might say that it is reconstructed after the fact, but this doesn't account for the sense of continuity in various NDEs, case in point Pam's NDE, nor the fact that even after resucitation many patients have a swollen brain that is barely capable of processing simple elements of the environment: patients are often confused, don't make sense, have delusions or hallucinations, etc.

The fact that there are such organisms does nothing to my arguement, are you willing to ascribe a rich experiential reality to such organisms? If you don't, why don't you?

How does your model account for OBEs and NDEs that occur to people who are alone? How does it account for perceptions that wouldn't be available to other observers? Are you telling me that people, from the street, could see the scuffing on the shoe? That they could see the shoelace under the shoe? And that somehow María's brain reconstructed, either when compromised or after resucitation, a complex hallucination out of the aggregate of observers? How would perceptions be aggregated? Why don't NDEs feature memories from those in the scene? A human being has tens of thousands of impressions, thoughts, memories every day, why are NDEs structurally similar and not a dissociated composite of thoughts, memories, emotions, of those around?