EEG spikes in humans and rats at end of life and what this means for the supposed 'evidence' for idealism
Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2021 5:57 pm
Bernardo Kastrup and other non materialists have long relied on near death experiences as evidence against a materialist explanation of consciousness. He and others will make the claim that because there is no brain activity when the brain is dead then materialism cannot possibly explain such occourences, often materialists will postulate katamine or DMT release in the brain as an explanation piece for NDE's but this has been argued to be conjecture only and has no strong basis of proof other than comparing the subjective contents of such drug induced experiences to those of NDE's. However under the noses of both idealists and materialists alike it seems that a decent number of EEG readings have been done on dying patients cut off from life support as well as being recorded on deliberately euthenised rats under anesthesia. Surprisingly in both cases no less than strong gamma oscillations, the EEG reading coinciding with the highest metacognitive processing has been recorded consistently in cases of deceased human and rat alike. Kastrup's insistence that materialism makes no sense whislt strong subjective experiences are happening when the brain is essentially dead may be a biased claim made without consideration for these recordings and their subsequent reports, gamma waves are the highest brain wave oscillation and if they are induced automatically (which one paper suggest happens because of a "cellular loss of membrane polarization due to hypoxemia" which in turn will lead me to investigate Kastrup's claims of hypoxemia as evidence for MAL when it could coincide with a physical neuro-electrical reaction, possibly aslo reading as gamma waves on an EEG recording) due to electro chemical reactions that occur near, during or after death than this could spell big trouble for Kastrup's bold argumentation. But does this spell trouble for idealism in general? One could say that the EEG readings are in the gamma frequency because the brain is being exposed to information that is not open to us currently disassociated alters, this information only becoming apparent due to the process of reassociation that occurs at death in idealism (which could coincide with end of life lucidity in patients with neurodegenerate diseases). What are your thoughts? Is this bad news for idealism? Will this be properly considered or will this be dusted under the rug? I will have to see but for all intents and purposes give me hell.
Here are the studies on humans: https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... 9/download
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19803731/
https://www.pnas.org/content/110/35/14432.short
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28145850/
Here is the one on rats: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10 ... 00800/full
Along with a reply to prominent NDE advocate Dr. Bruce Greyson: https://www.pnas.org/content/110/47/E4406
And here is an article on Gamma waves and what they do: https://www.healthline.com/health/gamma-brain-waves
Here are the studies on humans: https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... 9/download
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19803731/
https://www.pnas.org/content/110/35/14432.short
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28145850/
Here is the one on rats: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10 ... 00800/full
Along with a reply to prominent NDE advocate Dr. Bruce Greyson: https://www.pnas.org/content/110/47/E4406
And here is an article on Gamma waves and what they do: https://www.healthline.com/health/gamma-brain-waves