"Brain recordings in dying humans and animals document surges of activity surpassing baseline waking levels, they found. Meanwhile some patients who have experienced 'complete circulatory standstill' - when the heart stops beating - later demonstrated implicit recall of what was going on around them. Laboratory work has also demonstrated that metabolism, brain activity and blood flow can be restored in mammal brains and organs 'well beyond accepted limits'."
"'Emerging evidence suggests that biological and neural functions do not cease abruptly,' she told the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) conference in Phoenix. 'Instead, they decline from minutes to hours, suggesting that death unfolds as a process rather than an instantaneous event. Elements of consciousness may briefly exist beyond the measurable activity of the brain and death, long considered absolute, is instead a negotiable condition.'"
A large-scale review examined dozens of studies on near-death experiences, electrical brain activity in dying patients, and conscious awareness during heart attacks. Across heart attack studies, 20 per cent of survivors reported conscious experiences during periods when the brain had stopped functioning. Dying human and animal brain recordings revealed surges in activity exceeding baseline waking levels. Some patients who experienced complete circulatory standstill later demonstrated implicit recall of surrounding events. Laboratory experiments show metabolism, brain activity, and blood flow can be restored in mammalian brains well beyond previously accepted limits. Biological death can unfold over minutes to hours, making it potentially interruptible rather than instantaneous.
Read at Mail Online
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]