NDE Multimedia Resource Thread

To my ear, Parnia is basically arguing for some kind of dualism, camouflaged in pseudoscientific nonsense about a braking system on consciousness getting inactivated by dying. I wonder if he has given up on the ”Aware” line of inquiry? After many years on the fence and being very careful with his statements he is suddenly quite vocal.

Well, when Parnia says

And so the brain, naturally, has braking systems that prevent certain pieces of information from coming into our consciousness

it sounds like a restating of the filter theory of consciousness - which often talks about TV sets or radio transmitters and so on. He's managed to slide this in without attracting too much unwanted attention.

Actually (and I may have mentioned this before), I think the current approach is the result of working as part of a team. It may be a compromise to get all team-members on board, or it may be a carefully-crafted ruse to sneak ideas beneath the radar.

By now I'm in danger of becoming one of the folks described here, and really it doesn't matter that much to me:

There's an entire online community at this point devoted to interminable debates over the right way to understand the Esoteric Gospel of Parnia.