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Volume 1, Issue 1
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- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 1
- Articles
- 1
- Published
- 16 December 2024
In this issue
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Contents
1 article · pages 1–32
Review Article · Article 1 of 1
The Role of Cerebral Hypercarbia in the Induction of the Near-Death Experience
Nigel A Shaw · Honorary Professional Teaching Fellow, Department of Anatomy and Medical Imaging Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences University of Auckland, New Zealand
The review sets out a carbon-dioxide account of the near-death experience, proposing that a hypercarbic brain is a precursor of the state, and weighs it against the other naturalistic explanations in circulation. It is an argument advanced in a review rather than an established mechanism.
- Type
- Review Article
- Pages
- 1–32
- Published
- 16 December 2024
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- Author ORCID
- 0009-0001-3778-1408
Abstract
The opening of the published abstract, as the author wrote it.
“The near-death experience (NDE) is an altered state of consciousness which arises when a person is critically ill or injured and possibly clinically dead. It should not be conflated with other mental events such as the deathbed vision or the fear or anticipation of death.”
The review goes on to set out the carbon-dioxide account the author proposes, and to weigh it against the other naturalistic explanations in circulation. It is a hypothesis argued in a review — a reading of published evidence rather than an experimental report or a clinical procedure — and the author states that the step from a physical event to a mental one remains unaccounted for.
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