(2023-06-24, 07:43 PM)nbtruthman Wrote: If even just in one case the investigator and witness NDEr were not completely lying or deluded, then the blanket all inclusive falsity claim fails.
At least with memory I think paradoxical & terminal lucidity in the paper Sam posted is enough to question the idea mind is dependent on brain.
So even before NDEs we have those cases + Sudden Savants + people living relatively normally with minimal brain matter.
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