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This is a great little easy to understand video... the comments right towards the end about quantum effects are really important...

Right, I watched that, Max, quite interesting. Basically birds are able to migrate by utilising magnetic fields. And then he brings in quantum physics as an explanation for how such weak effects could actually work.

When birds are flying, are their brains functioning ? Patients in cardiac arrest have non functioning brains. Even if, just for a moment, I thought your theory was at all workable (which it isn't) we now have the problem that the brain is switched off.

We also have the problem that patients "see" things from above the ceiling, often down the hall and out into the carpark. They see things on the hospital roof, sometimes from above the earth, Jung even described this before the first space station was launched.

In addition, "doorways" and "tunnels", sometimes with deceased relatives, appear to the "disembodied" in the operating room at the same time as they have a clear view of the operation scene below.  Who's projecting that scenario into the patient's brain on the table ? 

Then you have the additional problem that the patients also report the transcendental, otherworldly element of NDE's and then somehow they meld the whole lot seamlessly together, somehow selectively forgetting that half of the experience was derived from other people's brains, and half wasn't.

It's the finest Heath Robinson, Max.  A much simpler explanation which works so much better is that we have a separate mind that works with the brain but is not produced by it. Much simpler and no need for endless assumptions and suppositions.

Finally, that's what the patients/experiencers themselves, say. Why should we not believe them ?