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Neuroscientists have recorded the activity of a dying human brain and discovered rhythmic brain wave patterns around the time of death that are similar to those occurring during dreaming, memory recall, and meditation. Now, a study published to Frontiers brings new insight into a possible organizational role of the brain during death and suggests an explanation for vivid life recall in near-death experiences.

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[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

So they see their life flashing before them?

[-] cloudless@feddit.uk 17 points 1 year ago

Sounds like it:

“Through generating oscillations involved in memory retrieval, the brain may be playing a last recall of important life events just before we die, similar to the ones reported in near-death experiences,” Zemmar speculated.

[-] mifan@feddit.dk 30 points 1 year ago

Perhaps the brain - in a last attempt to save its life - searches every situation that it has ever experienced to try to find survival tips.

[-] BananaTrifleViolin@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago

Maybe it's making a final upload to the cloud.

[-] reflex@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe it's making a final upload to the cloud.

Maybe they're highlights on the game over screen.

[-] GreenMario@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

It's the credits screen.

YOUR LIFE

Written and directed by George Lucas

Etc etc you get it

[-] grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I was caught in a rip current, in close to zero Celsius salt water, with significant waves as a teenager. My wetsuit was inadequate, to say the least, and my surfboard was lost because the leash failed (think of it as a flotation device).

I was sure I was going to die. I didn't. But, yeah, every single second of my life was screaming through my brain while I pleaded with any force in the universe to save me.

I eventually got control of my breathing and swam across the rip and let the waves take me in. I was cold for a long time.

That was my first time surfing. Wasn't my last but I learned a lot that day.

The that took me there and loaned me the gear didn't even go in the water (said he was right behind me).

[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Where it will promptly remember I did fuck all and survived

[-] fleabomber@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Or, your favorite jerk off material. It's fifty fifty.

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