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<blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 6275008" data-attributes="member: 710"><p>So you telling me there are cases where the brain was working like it always does, yet the person was having an out of body experience? </p><p>What data did you have to know that the person experienced an out of body experience? Did the brain activity seem "normal" (whatever that means) the entire time during, before and after the experience? Are you certain that our scans on brain activity are actually precise enough to detect all activity? </p><p>People revived by a defibrillator for example are not necessary (not even usually) brain dead, and neither they, nor people that are clinically dead or in the morgue are usually sitting in a computer tomograph. </p><p></p><p>If there is some kind of "soul" that left the body, what kind of observations should we expect, what kind of predictions do you have, how can we test them? </p><p></p><p></p><p>I mean, I strongly suspect the real reason we have out-of-body experiences is that we accidentally catch a glimpse of the narrator that is telling the story we are all in is merely messing up the text while narrating, and suddenly says something like "He looked so peaceful in the coma", Mustrum thought, as he was talking with the Doctor about Mustrum's state. "Well, Umbran, I am sorry, but a recovery is not guaranteed. Mustrum was hit pretty hard when he was thrown out of the car."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mustrum_Ridcully, post: 6275008, member: 710"] So you telling me there are cases where the brain was working like it always does, yet the person was having an out of body experience? What data did you have to know that the person experienced an out of body experience? Did the brain activity seem "normal" (whatever that means) the entire time during, before and after the experience? Are you certain that our scans on brain activity are actually precise enough to detect all activity? People revived by a defibrillator for example are not necessary (not even usually) brain dead, and neither they, nor people that are clinically dead or in the morgue are usually sitting in a computer tomograph. If there is some kind of "soul" that left the body, what kind of observations should we expect, what kind of predictions do you have, how can we test them? I mean, I strongly suspect the real reason we have out-of-body experiences is that we accidentally catch a glimpse of the narrator that is telling the story we are all in is merely messing up the text while narrating, and suddenly says something like "He looked so peaceful in the coma", Mustrum thought, as he was talking with the Doctor about Mustrum's state. "Well, Umbran, I am sorry, but a recovery is not guaranteed. Mustrum was hit pretty hard when he was thrown out of the car." [/QUOTE]
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