(2023-06-25, 04:59 PM)Sam Wrote: As a matter of fact, Merle, Keith Augustine, whom you gleefully seem to enjoy to cite often here, likes to use anecdotes in his book about people who have had mental impairment due to brain damage to attempt to make his point, or selectively picking out a few testimonies of near-death experiences to claim that near-death experiences are hallucinations. Should we dismiss those as anecdotes as well, Merle? Or would you say that we should accept them too, because they agree with your preconceived worldview?
Yeah Split Brain & Blindsight have had increasing questions, and of course the debunking of Libet Experiments as well.
Also cases like Phineas Gage may just be made up if doctors/surgeons are corroborating their patients' OOBEs for....some reason...
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