Tag: brain activity
Near-Death Research Slowly Fills in the Picture
When an 87-year-old man was having his brain scanned, he died — unexpectedly — of a heart attack. So, the scan recorded his unanticipated final brain activity.
New Brain Research Supports Free Will
Researchers, altering Libet’s classical experiment, found that human brains show no “readiness potential” when a decision is important.
Neuroscientist: Near-Death Experiences Are “Utterly Incompatible” with Materialism
“NDE studies suggest that after physical death, mind and consciousness may continue in a transcendent level of reality.”
Does a New Scientific Study Offer Evidence of Life after Death?
Maybe there is no evolutionary explanation. There is certainly no discernible natural-selection benefit.
Why a “Budding” Neuroscientist Is Skeptical of Brain Scans
A major thrust of neuroscience has been the use of fMRI to correlate brain activity with thinking and to draw conclusions about the physical basis of the mind.