A flair of energy within the brain in a dying patient who had “no blood pressure” or “heart rate” could possibly be evidence of the “soul leaving the body” after death, in line with an authority.
Dr. Stuart Hameroff, an anesthesiologist and professor of anesthesiology and psychology, said a recent study monitoring a clinically dead patient’s brain with sensors from an electroencephalogram (EEG) captured the strange burst of energy after death.
“They saw every thing go away after which [psh] you bought this activity when there was no blood pressure, no heart rate,” Hameroff told Project Unity in an interview Tuesday.
“In order that could possibly be the near-death experience, or it could possibly be the soul leaving the body, perhaps.”
The anesthesiologist said the burst of activity called gamma synchrony — a style of brain wave pattern linked to conscious thought, awareness, and perception — was picked up on the EEG and sometimes lasts “30 to 90 seconds” before it’s gone when the patient is already clinically dead.
While the University of Arizona professor said that skeptics have argued that it’s the “last gasp” of neurons firing off after death or just an “illusion,” he argues that it could possibly be consciousness leaving the body.
He speculates that consciousness may not need the identical amount of “energy consumption” other activities within the brain require and is found at a “deeper level,” making it “the last item to go” through the dying process.
“The purpose is it shows that consciousness is definitely, probably, a really low energy process,” he said.
Hameroff claims Dr. Lakhmir Chawla first pioneered this monitoring in a study, and anesthesiologists have repeatedly used EEG to watch brain-dead patients giving organs to make sure there isn’t any brain activity before the method.
“This has been a reasonably reproducible event, not 100% like 50% of patients show this once you measure it,” he said.
Hameroff also cited a study by Dr. Robin Lester Carhart-Harris — a researcher who studies how drugs affect mental health and behavior — where he had volunteers go into MRI machines or be monitored by EEGs and gave them a drip of the psychoactive compound psilocybin.
Hameroff explained that Carhart-Harris instructed the volunteers to shut their eyes, stay quiet, do nothing, and tell them what the experience was like after the test.
The topics later told Carhart-Harris that they were experiencing “vivid hallucinations” and “mainly tripping,” however the MRI was “cold and dark as in the event that they were comatose” and showed no brain activity.
“I believe they were expecting the MRI to light up like a pinball machine once they gave them the psilocybin because all these things can be happening,” Hameroff said.
“They were at a loss to elucidate this.”
Hameroff — who said he was chairing one in all the sessions — asked if it could possibly be because consciousness is going on at “a deeper quantum level.”
“Quantum level brain activity” is a theory that specific brain functions may operate on a small scale inside neurons, beyond traditional information processing through classical neural pathways, in line with Neuroscience News.
Research into the idea investigates the likelihood that the brain might utilize quantum mechanical processes, suggesting that consciousness could possibly be a collective quantum vibration inside neurons.
Hameroff believes Carhart-Harris’s study could also point to why it could possibly be the identical reason “end-of-life” brain activity spikes after a patient dies.
“I believe consciousness is definitely low energy,” he said.
A flair of energy within the brain in a dying patient who had “no blood pressure” or “heart rate” could possibly be evidence of the “soul leaving the body” after death, in line with an authority.
Dr. Stuart Hameroff, an anesthesiologist and professor of anesthesiology and psychology, said a recent study monitoring a clinically dead patient’s brain with sensors from an electroencephalogram (EEG) captured the strange burst of energy after death.
“They saw every thing go away after which [psh] you bought this activity when there was no blood pressure, no heart rate,” Hameroff told Project Unity in an interview Tuesday.
“In order that could possibly be the near-death experience, or it could possibly be the soul leaving the body, perhaps.”
The anesthesiologist said the burst of activity called gamma synchrony — a style of brain wave pattern linked to conscious thought, awareness, and perception — was picked up on the EEG and sometimes lasts “30 to 90 seconds” before it’s gone when the patient is already clinically dead.
While the University of Arizona professor said that skeptics have argued that it’s the “last gasp” of neurons firing off after death or just an “illusion,” he argues that it could possibly be consciousness leaving the body.
He speculates that consciousness may not need the identical amount of “energy consumption” other activities within the brain require and is found at a “deeper level,” making it “the last item to go” through the dying process.
“The purpose is it shows that consciousness is definitely, probably, a really low energy process,” he said.
Hameroff claims Dr. Lakhmir Chawla first pioneered this monitoring in a study, and anesthesiologists have repeatedly used EEG to watch brain-dead patients giving organs to make sure there isn’t any brain activity before the method.
“This has been a reasonably reproducible event, not 100% like 50% of patients show this once you measure it,” he said.
Hameroff also cited a study by Dr. Robin Lester Carhart-Harris — a researcher who studies how drugs affect mental health and behavior — where he had volunteers go into MRI machines or be monitored by EEGs and gave them a drip of the psychoactive compound psilocybin.
Hameroff explained that Carhart-Harris instructed the volunteers to shut their eyes, stay quiet, do nothing, and tell them what the experience was like after the test.
The topics later told Carhart-Harris that they were experiencing “vivid hallucinations” and “mainly tripping,” however the MRI was “cold and dark as in the event that they were comatose” and showed no brain activity.
“I believe they were expecting the MRI to light up like a pinball machine once they gave them the psilocybin because all these things can be happening,” Hameroff said.
“They were at a loss to elucidate this.”
Hameroff — who said he was chairing one in all the sessions — asked if it could possibly be because consciousness is going on at “a deeper quantum level.”
“Quantum level brain activity” is a theory that specific brain functions may operate on a small scale inside neurons, beyond traditional information processing through classical neural pathways, in line with Neuroscience News.
Research into the idea investigates the likelihood that the brain might utilize quantum mechanical processes, suggesting that consciousness could possibly be a collective quantum vibration inside neurons.
Hameroff believes Carhart-Harris’s study could also point to why it could possibly be the identical reason “end-of-life” brain activity spikes after a patient dies.
“I believe consciousness is definitely low energy,” he said.
