New study: What really happens when you die?

A new international study is endeavoring to apply hard science to one of life’s biggest mysteries — its end. “Most people think of death as a moment,” said the project’s founder, Dr. Sam Parnia. “We’ve found it goes on for a period of time.”

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Questions and answers about moment of death

The AWARE (Awareness During Resuscitation) study is harnessing technology to learn whether “out-of-body experiences” really occur. Here are questions and answers about this new international effort to learn what really happens when we die.

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Expert describes what happens when we die

Dr. Sam Parnia is founder of the AWARE (Awareness During Resuscitation) study to discover whether “out-of-body experiences” really happen. His research indicates that the brain may continue to be active and aware after flatlining.

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Nature’s fireworks on display

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1. Learn to identify your prevailing beliefs, judgments, and attitudes about the way the world works and who you think you are, or how it "should" be—and be able to suspend those ideas temporarily.

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" Burst into singing all ye lands for the time of awakening is here. "

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Go ahead: Laugh if you want (though you'll benefit your brain more if you smile), but in my professional opinion, yawning is one of the best-kept secrets in neuroscience.

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There are certain laws that govern our existence here on planet Earth. Similar to the law of gravity, it makes no difference whether you "believe" in them or not...they still affect you.

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A telltale signature of consciousness has been detected that takes us a step closer to disentangling the brain activity underlying conscious and unconscious brain processes.

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"It helps explain a lot of things, like why people forget so many dreams," Dr. Hobson said in an interview. "It's like jogging; the body doesn't remember every step, but it knows it has exercised. It has been tuned up.

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While religion and science usually strive to answer different questions, the battles over issues such as evolution and the study of consciousness show that they also sometimes tread on each other's turf.

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David Chalmers is a philosopher of mind, best known for his argument about the difficulty of what he termed the "hard problem" of consciousness, which he typically discusses by way of a thought experiment featuring zombies who act and talk exactly like humans, and yet have no …

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Supernatural beliefs about mind, morality and the self are losing plausibility as naturalistic explanations gain traction. In response, supernaturalists argue that gaps in these explanations are evidence for the failure of naturalism.

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Give pigs a chance to experiment with a mirror first and most of them can find dinner based on only a food bowl's reflection, says Donald Broom of the University of Cambridge in England, who studies animal cognition and welfare.

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FRIDAY, Oct. 2 (HealthDay News) -- New research provides insight into how the brain resolve such dilemmas as whether you should drop a plate that's burning your fingers or keep holding it to keep the food off the floor.

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Smith makes this conclusion in an article published the September issue of the journal Trends in Cognitive Science (Volume 13, Issue 9). He reviews this new and rapidly developing area of comparative inquiry, describing its milestones and its prospects for continued progress.

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What is the Spiritual Hierarchy?

Just who exactly were all those enlightened teachers from our past? Are there any connections between those prominent spiritual figures such as Jesus Christ, Guatama Buddha, Krishna, Mithra, Hercules, Rama, Zoroaster, Confucious, along with those many other thinkers, leaders, sc …

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Everyone has hunches — about friends' motives, about the stock market, about when to fold a hand of poker and when to hold it.

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Humans communicate with one another using a dazzling array of languages, each differing from the next in innumerable ways.

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"There are all kinds of pitfalls in social life, everywhere we look; not just errors but worst possible errors come to mind, and they come to mind easily," said the paper's author, Daniel M. Wegner, a psychologist at Harvard.

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Taken together, these seemingly divergent experiences and observations serve to reinforce in me the idea that the external world IS the internal world.

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We are talking about the Jewish Community. We experience the community when we can be together and share all kinds of interests. We tend to think of community when we can gather people together in one building or one room in order to do some specific task at some specific time.

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Scientists and philosophers are using new discoveries in neuroscience to question the idea of free will. They are misguided, says Martin Heisenberg. Examining animal behaviour shows how our actions can be free.

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Free will, or at least the place where we decide to act, is sited in a part of the brain called the parietal cortex, new research suggests.

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Mental Pushups: An excercise in Consciousness

Think of where you're sitting now. Besides just being aware of the room you're in, or the chair you're on top of, you have access to years of biologically stored pathways of information that maps sensory motions, experiences, feelings, and memories.

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More than 70 of the world's most influential scientific thinkers, including eight Nobel laureates and a smattering of best-selling authors, gathered at Arizona State University here over the weekend to hash out their ideas about the origins of the universe, the stars and planets, …

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Consciousness arises as an emergent property of the human mind. Yet basic questions about the precise timing, location and dynamics of the neural event(s) allowing conscious access to information are not clearly and unequivocally determined.

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