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Focus - When We're Unconscious

How We're Wired

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In episode 14, we looked at the neuroscience of death and consciousness. What near-death experiences might teach us about what it actually feels like to die. Eva Higginbotham: For every person who can tell us about floating above their body or seeing a light at the end of a tunnel, there will be many others who didn't surviveTheir heart attack or stroke or brain injury. So we'll never hear their stories. And some of the time, this is because they fell into a coma, a very deep state of unconsciousness and never woke up.

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