-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Badger <wbadger@psyberlink.net>
To: extropians@extropy.com <extropians@extropy.com>
Date: 19 October 1998 23:23
Subject: Re: Mind control 1965
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>>In the first type of case, it seems clear that the brain has developed
this
>>type of recognitional/experiential capacity to deal with something beyond
>>itself. Why shouldn't the same be true of the second type of
>>recognitional/experiential capacity? Why would the brain have evolved a
>>recognitional capacity for something that doesn't actually occur?
>
>
>Naysayers suggest that the brain developed this capacity to disassociate
>as an escape from things like imminent physical death. I know about the
>Pediatrician studying children's NDEs who has suggested that there is a
>place in the brain (in the Sylvian fissure of the right temporal lobe) that
>is
>triggered during times of tremendous physical stress or at the moment of
>death. He alludes to this bundle of neurons as being our link to the
>spiritual
>world. (sigh) It seems a bit more parsimonious to assume that intense
>levels of anxiety simply trigger dissociative phenomena. It; probably just
>an extension of the flight response.
Seems a bit elaborate as a flight response. Wouldn't fainting be simpler?
Patrick M.