Consciousness After Death: Strange Tales From the Frontiers of Resuscitation Medicine


The Dr. describes death as a process that takes time and not an instantaneous moment. They have even devised methods chilling the body of a cardiac arrest patient where they can then preform surgery and revive that person in one instance 40 minutes after his heart stopped. He notes that in the body after a certain period of time, decay starts, and a person can no longer be revived, but that consciousness continues on for a few hours in a "hibernated state." Even though there is no measurable brain activity, independent studies have verified that a small percentage ( the AWARE study claims 10-20%) of cardiac arrests remember things that they shouldn't have been aware of if their brain had no activity showing that it was processing external stimuli.


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The question that's been eating at me is: how can the body form, process, and store memories when our the brain shows no measurable activity?

I'm curious to know your opinions.

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It begs a question in assuming it takes electrical activity all the way, neurons not nerves. By crude analogy were the mind the developing process for camera film the exposure would not generate anything. But as brain activity returned the exposure would be "processed." Crudely, while there is no brain activity the doctor steps the finger. The brain does not say ouch until it is active again.

When it comes to vision the optic nerve and eye motions do a lot of pre-processing before the brain gets to work with it.

Yes I know storing a time sequence of events to be observed by a reactivated brain is a serious question but I am not trying to produce a scientific explanation rather only to propose a possible mechanism which would fit the observation.


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