What do you think about the scientific evidence suggesting consciousness may not be completely tied to the physical body?; is it flawed? Didn't post this on /x/ because I doubt meaningful discussion will be present.
>The three cases we have presented briefly attest to three important observations: (1) patients who claim to have out-of-body experiences while near death sometimes describe unusual objects that they could not have known about by normal means; (2) these objects can later be shown to have existed in the form and location indicated by the patients' testimony; and (3) hearing this testimony has a strong emotional and cognitive effect on the caregivers involved, either strengthening their pre-existing belief in the authenticity of NDEs or occasioning a kind of on-the-spot conversion.
>We are not suggesting, of course, that the cases we have described here constitute proof of the authenticity of NDEs or even that they necessarily
demonstrate that patients have been literally out of their bodies when they report what they do. We only submit that such cases add to the mounting evidence that veridical and conventionally inexplicable visual perceptions do occur during NDEs, and the fact of their existence needs to be reckoned with by near-death researchers and skeptics alike.
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc799169/m2/1/high_res_d/vol11-no4-223.pdf
>In cases in which a deceased person was identified the details of whose life unmistakably matched the child's statements, a close correspondence was nearly always found between the birthmarks and/or birth defects on the child and the wounds on the deceased person. In 43 of 49 cases in which a medical document (usually a postmortem report) was obtained, it confirmed the correspondence between wounds and birthmarks (or birth defects). There is little evidence that parents and other informants imposed a false identity on the child in order to explain the child's birthmark or birth defect.
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>The three cases we have presented briefly attest to three important observations: (1) patients who claim to have out-of-body experiences while near death sometimes describe unusual objects that they could not have known about by normal means; (2) these objects can later be shown to have existed in the form and location indicated by the patients' testimony; and (3) hearing this testimony has a strong emotional and cognitive effect on the caregivers involved, either strengthening their pre-existing belief in the authenticity of NDEs or occasioning a kind of on-the-spot conversion.
>We are not suggesting, of course, that the cases we have described here constitute proof of the authenticity of NDEs or even that they necessarily
demonstrate that patients have been literally out of their bodies when they report what they do. We only submit that such cases add to the mounting evidence that veridical and conventionally inexplicable visual perceptions do occur during NDEs, and the fact of their existence needs to be reckoned with by near-death researchers and skeptics alike.
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc799169/m2/1/high_res_d/vol11-no4-223.pdf
>In cases in which a deceased person was identified the details of whose life unmistakably matched the child's statements, a close correspondence was nearly always found between the birthmarks and/or birth defects on the child and the wounds on the deceased person. In 43 of 49 cases in which a medical document (usually a postmortem report) was obtained, it confirmed the correspondence between wounds and birthmarks (or birth defects). There is little evidence that parents and other informants imposed a false identity on the child in order to explain the child's birthmark or birth defect.
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