Nik wrote:Yep agree totally choc I think 'near death experiences' are because of the chemical cocktail our nervous system whips up at moments of stress...not to mention that our brain probably subconsciously copycats the near death experience we would expect to see after hearing about the door/white light scenario in so many cases
As for cloning, yeah sure, if a person's brain is cloned as well, it would contain all the memories/experiences as well as the emotions attached to them....we tend to think of memory as something intangible, but really experiences are hardwired into our brains (its proven that our brain chemistry actually alters visibly after behavior modifications)...As for the soul, thats a tough thing to encapsulate, perhaps we classify at as something vague because we don't want to understand it...Maybe the soul is just a combination of genes, hormones and experiences, in which case yeah definitely should be preserved in the cloning process...perhaps cloning would help us understand the science behind being human, which really is still a mystery to us...They say that we can never understand how our brain works, because to have that level of understanding, our brain would have to be even more complex and the complexity always outruns the capacity to understand that complexity!
well well,, you said that !!! NEAR DEATH ,,, its not death ,,, ok ,,near death could be chemical ,, coz its like being sick or something . but death itself ,,, you need someone who really died and got back to life ,, to inform how it was !!!! what happened ,,, what he saw !!! well,, about cloning the brain ,, i dont know ,, but i think that this has to do something with the soul , and we wouldnt know till science succeed in cloning the brain . you are assuming something ,,, well, we have to wait in order to know .