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Originally Posted by Occam's chainsaw  According to the dying brain framework - the mind is what the brain does. From that its real easy..... |
Which kind of brings us back to my hypothetical scenario.
Let us suppose someone had a cardiac arrest but instead of being immediately revived they were put into cryogenic suspension. Let us suppose that they were re-animated after years of cryogenic freezing and somehow their neural connections were re-established to a normal degree. Let us also suppose that, upon re-animation, this person reported that 'they' were having atypical OBE the whole time their body was frozen which lasted for years.
We might be tempted to view this account as an extreme extension of the conditions reported in a typical NDE. The main difference would be the length of time under conditions of 'clinical brain death'. It might
appear from this account that experiences were occuring without brain activity that is thought to be necessary.
Do you think that this report would bring the assumptions of the dying brain framework into doubt?
Would this report establish that the experiences occured during cryogenic suspension merely by the length of time within which the experiences were reported to occur?
Or would some veridical 'marker' be necessary to establish that?
I guess we all have slightly different answers.