
Discussing Consciousness and the Mind-Body Problem
Mind Matters
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Near Death Experiences
So called evidential near death experiences. A patient reports from the time at which there was no measurable brain function, ar witnessing numbers on medical machines orl the location of items like like shoes. They they actually recall things which we know objectively are true. And they cannot be written off by hallucinations or a waking brain phenomena as the person returns to life. So is this empirical evidence that the mind and the body are not the same? Is there any other evidence? And what do you think? Do you think this near death experience is compelling evidence for the difference between theMind and the body?
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