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Just seen this article some of you may be interested in : https://medium.com/excommunications/heres-why-no-near-death-experience-can-ever-convince-a-skeptic-75a7f89901ef

Mirror, Mirror 2017: International Comparison (commonwealthfund.org) Some international comparisons in order

What an embarrassing interview. So little challenge when it's usually so forthcoming and the stakes re covid are so high.

Hi Alex, At the end of this show you said its good to be precise. So in the interests of precision can I just pick you up on something that you frequently say, and which you repeat in this interview, namely that various people think "consciousness is an illusion and an epiphenomenon of the...

Really enjoyed this interview. Great to hear more from DBH on Skeptiko who I agree is extremely bright and I've enjoyed listening to him debate at time ...Alex is right he usually beats his opponents so decisively its embaresing to watch at times out of sympathy for the atheists. With regards...

I started a thread about this study a few weeks ago. I agree with the point that the level of activity report seems unlikely to the best of our knowledge be the kind of activity that can create the complex experiences we find in NDEs.. However there seems to be an aspect of this study that...

Hi Haruhi, Although I don't disagree with the direction of your point, the point I was making in relation to the research was not that the hippocampus can itself account for higher cognitive functions but rather that the rhythmic pulses emanating from the hippocampus can lead to whole brain...

Yes although there is some evidence of activity that can reach the cortex this is not to suggest that the activity caused by quasi-rhythmic waves emanating from the hippocampus could possibly produce the highly lucid and complex activity we find in an NDE. Also the study seems to suggest this is...

Wondered what people thought of this research indicating lack of EEG does not mean no significant brain activity - in particular hippocampus neural activity could lead to whole brain phenomenology in cats in deep coma: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0075257...