Fairly interesting article
at CNN on NDE's (near-death experiences). People want to think of them
as portents of heaven but they're really just shows your mind puts on in
extreme circumstances. Still, an interesting read.
When I was in a coma and no one thought I'd live, my experience wasn't like the stories you hear about NDE's. When I was coming out of the coma, first I was five beings, then four, then two (I was never three beings), and then one -- at which point I woke up.
To me, this confirms that our consciousness is the result of several brain functions coming together to create the illusion of being a unitary, conscious creature. We are not one, we are many disjointed functions coming together to focus. And focus is consciousness.
So much for heaven and the afterlife. But I like my experience better than that of the godders.
When I was in a coma and no one thought I'd live, my experience wasn't like the stories you hear about NDE's. When I was coming out of the coma, first I was five beings, then four, then two (I was never three beings), and then one -- at which point I woke up.
To me, this confirms that our consciousness is the result of several brain functions coming together to create the illusion of being a unitary, conscious creature. We are not one, we are many disjointed functions coming together to focus. And focus is consciousness.
So much for heaven and the afterlife. But I like my experience better than that of the godders.
