Science and the Near-Death Experience by Carter, Chris -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Image Title Page Dedication Epigraph Table of Contents Foreword Introduction Part 1: Does Consciousness Depend on the Brain?

Chapter 1: Ancient and Modern Theories

Chapter 2: Objections of Skeptics Chapter 3: Opinions from Neuroscience Chapter 4: Physics and Consciousness

THE ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL WORLDVIEW CLASSICAL PHYSICS QUANTUM MECHANICS DETERMINISM AND THE ROLE OF THE OBSERVER PSYCHOKINESIS AND THE AGE OF ELECTRONICS IMPLICATIONS FOR PHYSICS AND CONSCIOUSNESS LOCALISM NONMECHANICAL CAUSATION A NEW CONCEPTION OF MATTER QUANTUM MECHANICAL THEORIES OF MIND PHENOMENA QUANTUM MECHANICAL MODELS OF MIND CAN EXPLAIN MATERIALIST THEORIES OF MIND THE DREADED INTERACTION PROBLEM THE OBJECTIONS OF DANIEL DENNETT CONCLUDING REMARKS

Chapter 5: Are Memories Stored in the Brain?

REMARKS ON THE DEBATE THE EVIDENCE FROM NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Chapter 6: Theories of Life

IMPLICATIONS FOR MEMORY IMPLICATIONS FOR SURVIVAL OTHER LINES OF EVIDENCE CONCLUSIONS

Part 2: The Near-Death Experience

Chapter 7: Reports from the Brink

STAGES OF THE NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE FEELING OF PEACE SEPARATION FROM THE BODY PASSAGE THROUGH DARKNESS SEEING A LIGHT ENCOUNTERING THE DECEASED OR A PRESENCE LIFE REVIEW ENTERING THE LIGHT AFTER EFFECTS: THE IMPACT OF THE EXPERIENCE FAITH AND THE NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE FACTORS INFLUENCING THE NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE

Chapter 8: Into the Abyss

INVERTED NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES THE MEANINGLESS VOID HELLISH NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES

Chapter 9: Near-Death Experiences Across Cultures

CHINA INDIA NATIVE AMERICA GUAM MAORI NEW ZEALAND DISCUSSION NEAR-DEATH RESEARCH TODAY

Chapter 10: Proposed Psychological Explanations

FANTASY AND WISHFUL THINKING DISSOCIATED STATES IMAGINATIVE RECONSTRUCTIONS SEMICONSCIOUS PERCEPTION MEMORIES OF BIRTH

Chapter 11: Proposed Physiological Explanations

ENDORPHINS OXYGEN STARVATION DOES ANOXIA PRODUCE THE TUNNEL? EXCESSIVE CARBON DIOXIDE CAN RAPID ACCELERATION INDUCE THE NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE? TEMPORAL LOBE SEIZURES CONCLUSIONS REGARDING TEMPORAL LOBE SEIZURES AND NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES

Chapter 12: Experiencing Death through Drugs?

THE KETAMINE MODEL RELEVANCE OF KETAMINE FOR THE NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE CONCLUDING REMARKS

Chapter 13: The “Dying Brain” Theory of Susan Blackmore

NEURAL DISINHIBITION AND THE OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE PERCEPTION OF DEAD RELATIVES THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE DYING BRAIN THE EFFECTS OF CARDIAC ARREST

Chapter 14: Veridical Near-Death Experiences

CASE OF THE MISSING DENTURES “FLAPPING HIS ARMS AS IF TRYING TO FLY . . .” OPERATION “STANDSTILL”

Chapter 15: Near-Death Experiences of People Who Are Blind Chapter 16: The Scientific Challenge to Materialism

SUMMARY

Chapter 17: The Near-Death Experience as Evidence for Survival

BUT ARE THEY REALLY DEAD? FEATURES OF THE NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE SUGGESTING SURVIVAL

Part 3: Deathbed Visions

Chapter 18: Reports from England to India

REPORTS FROM INDIA DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE AMERICAN AND INDIAN SURVEYS

Chapter 19: Alternative Explanations Chapter 20: Comparison with the Near-Death Experience

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