Super-Psi & some notes from Braude's Immortal Remains

There's actually a SciAm article on this by a self-styled "radical rationalist":

One Last Goodbye: The Strange Case of Terminal Lucidity

And more from the Psi-Encyclopedia:

I think of the major things that stands out in Terminal Lucidity cases is how difficult it is to make a credible argument for Super-Psi. If Psi is something that allows one's mind to overcome the limitations of the dying brain, then it suggests consciousness is not dependent on that brain. Given this is happening at death, that death would be the trigger for this feat of living agent Psi also suggests it is the failure of the limiting function of the filter/transmitter that allow consciousness the clarity to control the body.

One can remark that we don't know enough about Psi to understand its relation to the brain, even the dying brain, but to me this itself rings hollow and would reveal Super Psi to be a hypothesis without a country solely made to discount Survival.

After all terminal lucidity runs counter to the processes we see in biology but somehow - for the [Super or at least Living Agent Psi] hypothesis to hold - the mind producing Living Agent Psi depends on these very processes. The very fact Psi would be something so out-of-step with our understanding of "material" reality from physics to biology is itself a reason to think of it as pointing to Consciousness as something that is not dependent on the body.

The only other escape hatch I can see is to posit Psi not of the dying person but of someone living enabling the terminally ill this last bit of clarity. But this also runs into torturous questions - is this a form of PK? Telepathy? Both? And if one's consciousness can slip into someone else's skull and use *their* brain as an interface wouldn't this also point to the relationship between their own consciousness and their own brain?

Next we'll get into how Terminal Lucidity fits into the puzzle of case types.