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Consciousness could last hours after ‘death’ (www.thetimes.com)
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The news was presented at the AAAS meeting in Phoenix, Arizona. Anna Fowler presented a synthesis of dozens of studies on near-death experiences and neuroelectrical activity around cardiac arrest. - https://particle.news/story/aaas-presentation-argues-consciousness-may-persist-minutes-to-hours-after-clinical-death

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[–] 84 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Consciousness barely lasts a couple seconds without bloodflow though. Clearly a clickbait title that is intentionally misleading.

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  • [–] 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    I think the consciousness they're talking about here is the subjective sense of something happening - that it feels like something to be. The fact of experience itself. Unconsciousness in the medical sense doesn't necessarily mean the end of experience.

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago

    This is a really difficult concept for some people in our modern society. Enlightenment style thinking would have you believe that human consciousness is a blanket term for salience, attention, awareness, sentience, social cognition, self-recognition, meta-cognition, etc. It’s as though you looked at a car and didn’t see its component parts or individual qualities, you just saw this weird new thing called Car.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I can tell you from experience, you are not aware of being unconscious. It goes from the moment before you lose it, to when you regain without any period between.

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