To be or not to be: The self as illusion

Tippett, Krista; Metzinger, Thomas; Thompson, Evan; Lommel, Pim van

doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06181.x

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“…NDEs are described in many circumstances: cardiac arrest in myocardial infarction, shock, electrocution; coma resulting from traumatic brain damage; intracerebral hemorrhage or cerebral infarction; near-drowning or asphyxia; and apnea. [77][78][79][80][81][82] Although these results cannot simply be correlated with human experiment, it suggests the brain's remaining activity may explain the NDE. [77][78][79] As mentioned earlier from anecdotal observations, we occasionally found that when teaching CP to students, they relived their previous NDE experience during their CP.…”

Section: Hrv Assessment For Sce and Ndementioning

confidence: 99%

Continuous autonomic nervous system assessment using heart rate variability methodology during near-death and mystical experiences

Machado¹,

Newberg²,

Machado³

et al. 2022

World J. Adv. Res. Rev.

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Introduction: We have recently recorded, processed, and published preliminary research (Part I) on brain activity by quantitative electroencephalography (EEG) tomography (QEEGt), comparing separate subjects remembering their near-death experiences (NDEs) and mystical experiences (SCE). Several reports have affirmed that NDE and SCE are related to important functional changes in the autonomic nervous system (ANS). The autonomic nervous system and the hypothalamus regulate pulse, blood pressure, breathing, and arousal in response to emotional cues. When activated, the sympathetic nervous system prepares the body for emergency actions by controlling the glands of the endocrine system. Heart rate variability (HRV) refers to how much an individual's heart rate (HR) varies, and it is a powerful method to assess the ANS. Several reports have affirmed that NDE and SCE are related to important functional changes in the ANS. We used the continuous EEG monitoring (CEEG) system to compare the memories of two groups with a NDE and a SCE. CEEG permits continuous electrocardiogram monitoring, allowing calculation of HR and HRV during SCE and NDE remembering. Hence, using HRV methodology, it is possible to assess the emotional effect of remembering NDE and SCE. Conclusion: We demonstrated the usefulness of using the CEEG methodology, which allows us to continuously assess the ANS through the HRV methodology, showing important significant functional changes in the autonomic nervous system (ANS), and comparing SCE and NDE.

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Section: Hrv Assessment For Sce and Ndementioning

confidence: 99%

Continuous autonomic nervous system assessment using heart rate variability methodology during near-death and mystical experiences

Machado¹,

Newberg²,

Machado³

et al. 2022

World J. Adv. Res. Rev.

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The Self as Organizer

Kasturirangan

2013

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Consciousness and the Self

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The transmediated self

Elwell

2013

Convergence

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We are spending more and more of our lives online. Meanwhile, the combination of constant connectivity and ubiquitous computing is folding the material world itself into an expansive ‘Internet of things’. As a result the line between life online and life off-line has become blurred in an existential equivalence of the digital and the analog. In this networked ecosystem, the old Web 1.0 notion of an anonymous digital persona that is separate from off-line, analog self-identity is no longer applicable. A new paradigm for conceptualizing the dialectic of digital–analog self-identity is needed. To that end, I argue that in our age of networked connectivity, self-identity is being fashioned according to the aesthetics of transmedia production. I conclude that the transmedia paradigm, taken as a model for interpreting self-identity in the liminal space between the virtual and the real, reveals a transmediated self constituted as a browsable story-world that is integrated, dispersed, episodic, and interactive.

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To be or not to be: The self as illusion

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Continuous autonomic nervous system assessment using heart rate variability methodology during near-death and mystical experiences

Continuous autonomic nervous system assessment using heart rate variability methodology during near-death and mystical experiences

The Self as Organizer

The transmediated self

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