Das said > "I don't see how this theory would be so absurd that there's no chance for it being true at all. Haven't seen that many rebuttals to it."
Okay.
1. Studies in other animals and humans have revealed that after 10-20 seconds of cardiac arrest, the electrical activity in the brain is lost. In cardiac arrest, consciousness (at least normal waking consciousness ) is lost immediately. I've seen this myself, actually seen someone drop dead in front of me. Their consciousness is gone ...hell it even goes in a simple faint, immediately. So if something starts occurring deep in the brain ie a few cells firing, brain based consciousness is not just going to magically relocate to a new part of the brain !
Why would it, we need our cortex to think and form memories, the top part of the brain, not the bottom.
2. Just because Borjigin has detected some form of deep activity 40 seconds after the heart stops (in rats) it doesn't mean she can then correlate it to a human near death experience. Has a rat reported a near death experience ? We don't even know what it feels like to be a rat. What evolutionary purpose would it serve for a rat to have the classic NDE experience while it was lying flat out on the grass ? A bird of prey would swoop down and scoop it up, it makes no sense even if you postulate that a rat's consciousness CAN somehow relocate to somewhere deep in it's brain structure.
3. What does some tiny electrical activity deep in the brain tell us about veridical OBE's ? Can the rat see what is going on around it and in the next room
while it is having this last surge of whatever ?
4. If you could actually ask the rat (upon revival) if it had really HAD an out of body experience and the rat was able to accurately describe events that occurred while it was "dead" ...do you think that Linda would accept the rat's testimony ? No, she would start coming up with alternative ways that the rat
could have got the information, just like she always does and always will do.
5.The reason why there haven't been any official rebuttals is because it's a load of bollocks, total and utter, not worth even considering.