Near death, explained

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4. Interesting read, but a couple of flaws.

The most glaring one, and it is one I've seen repeated when discussing this subject, is this:

These findings strongly challenge the mainstream neuroscientific view that mind and consciousness result solely from brain activity. As we have seen, such a view fails to account for how NDErs can experience—while their hearts are stopped—vivid and complex thoughts and acquire veridical information about objects or events remote from their bodies.

The problem is that we can't actually be certain people are experiencing these NDE's and OBE's while their hearts are stopped and there is no brain activity. Even in the Pam Reynolds case we can't be certain she didn't have her experience during the last moments her brain was still active. As for the details she was able to bring up, do we know for a fact she never saw the tools they were going to use prior to the surgery? Also, she likely met the team that would be working on her, and had a good idea of what was going to be done during the surgery, so her experiences (such as hearing the voice of the woman) could have resulted from her own concerns of the surgery that just so happened to occur in reality.

Also, how can those who believe that OBE's are a real phenomena with the persons consciousness leaving the body explain OBE's where the person does not see or hear something that is real?

These are questions that must be answered before we begin jumping to the conclusions that the author of that article clearly means for us readers to jump to.