A study by researchers at George Washington University revealed that even after cardiac arrest, a person's brain in a state of clinical death continues to exhibit activity. This was reported by Daily Mail.
Specifically, Dr. Stuart Hameroff believes this is evidence that human consciousness does not vanish after death but transitions to another level of existence.
The study involved seven patients for whom a decision was made to discontinue treatment due to advanced systemic critical illness. Among them were two men and five women aged between 34 and 74 years.
The research team conducted electroencephalograms (EEGs) on each patient when they were set to be disconnected from life support machines. When a patient's EEG became isoelectric or flat, they were declared dead.
However, after the moment of death was recorded, there was an energy surge lasting from one to 20 minutes.
Dr. Hameroff noted that after one patient's heart stopped beating, their brain exhibited a sudden surge of high-frequency activity known as gamma synchrony, lasting from 30 to 90 seconds.
Gamma synchrony is a type of brain wave pattern associated with conscious thought, awareness, and perception—activities that occur when you think or process information.
This indicates that even after cardiac arrest, the brain showed signs that could be linked to awareness or consciousness for a brief period.
Hameroff believes that the information contained in the brain does not disappear after death. It may disperse into the universe and then return if the person is revived. This explains the recollections of individuals who have experienced clinical death.
"If they are not revived and they die, it is quite possible that this quantum information may exist outside the body, possibly indefinitely, like a soul," the scientist asserts.
However, most scientists believe that consciousness is a product of complex interactions in the brain arising from intricate neural networks that process information and create a unified subjective experience.
A possible explanation for the bursts of activity is brain oxygen deprivation.
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