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Letter: Are we really the sum of our parts? (3)

Published 15 July 2020

From Eric Kvaalen, Les Essarts-le-Roi, France

You emphasise the connection between body and consciousness. But what about consciousness when the body is clinically dead, as in near-death events? This was discussed in an interview that New Scientist ran a while ago (9 March 2013).

For instance, there was a case in Spokane, Washington, in which a clinically dead man, later revived, could see and hear what was going on in the operating room (see Journal of Near-Death Studies, vol 31(3), p 179).

Issue no. 3291 published 18 July 2020

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