
However, the signals were up to eight times stronger. The researchers said that the discovery that the brain is highly active in the seconds after the heart stops suggests that the phenomenon has a physical, rather than spiritual nature.It has been argued that the dying brain is incapable of such complex activity and so near-death experiences must have their origins in the soul. It suggests something happens at the brink of death that pushes the conscious brain to a high level of arousal, potentially triggering the visions and sensations associated with near-death experiences (NDEs).As many as a fifth of people who survive cardiac arrests report having had an other-worldly experience while being 'clinically' dead.
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