Hans GollerCorresponding author

Mortal Body, Immortal Mind
Does the Brain Really Produce Consciousness?

Article
17/1 - Spring 2012, pages 5-26
Date of online publication: 09 août 2015
Date of publication: 30 juin 2012

Abstract

Neuroscientists keep telling us that the brain produces consciousness and con- sciousness does not survive brain death because it ceases when brain activity ceases. Research findings on near-death-experiences during cardiac arrest con- tradict this widely held conviction. ey raise perplexing questions with regard to our current understanding of the relationship between consciousness and brain functions. Reports on veridical perceptions during out-of-body experiences sug- gest that consciousness may be experienced independently of a functioning brain and that self-consciousness may continue even aer the termination of brain ac- tivity. Data on studies of near-death-experiences could be an incentive to develop alternative theories of the body-mind relation as seen in contemporary neuro- science

Cite this article

Goller, Hans. “Mortal Body, Immortal Mind: Does the Brain Really Produce Consciousness?” Forum Philosophicum 17, no. 1 (2012): 5–26. doi:10.35765/forphil.2012.1701.01.