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| Title |
Near death experiences: a multidisciplinary hypothesis
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, January 2013
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| DOI | 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00533 |
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| Authors |
István Bókkon, Birendra N. Mallick, Jack A. Tuszynski |
| Abstract |
Recently, we proposed a novel biophysical concept regarding on the appearance of brilliant lights during near death experiences (NDEs) (Bókkon and Salari, 2012). Specifically, perceiving brilliant light in NDEs has been proposed to arise due to the reperfusion that produces unregulated overproduction of free radicals and energetically excited molecules that can generate a transient enhancement of bioluminescent biophotons in different areas of the brain, including retinotopic visual areas. If this excess of bioluminescent photon emission exceeds a threshold in retinotopic visual areas, this can appear as (phosphene) lights because the brain interprets these intrinsic retinotopic bioluminescent photons as if they originated from the external physical world. Here, we review relevant literature that reported experimental studies (Imaizumi et al., 1984; Suzuki et al., 1985) that essentially support our previously published conception, i.e., that seeing lights in NDEs may be due to the transient enhancement of bioluminescent biophotons. Next, we briefly describe our biophysical visual representation model that may explain brilliant lights experienced during NDEs (by phosphenes as biophotons) and REM sleep associated dream-like intrinsic visual imageries through biophotons in NDEs. Finally, we link our biophysical visual representation notion to self-consciousness that may involve extremely low-energy quantum entanglements. This article is intended to introduce novel concepts for discussion and does not pretend to give the ultimate explanation for the currently unanswerable questions about matter, life and soul; their creation and their interrelationship. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 37 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 7 | 19% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 8% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| Australia | 1 | 3% |
| Comoros | 1 | 3% |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 3% |
| India | 1 | 3% |
| Italy | 1 | 3% |
| Hungary | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 20 | 54% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 28 | 76% |
| Scientists | 7 | 19% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 5% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 110 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 2% |
| United States | 2 | 2% |
| Turkey | 1 | <1% |
| Costa Rica | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Belarus | 1 | <1% |
| Hungary | 1 | <1% |
| Russia | 1 | <1% |
| Luxembourg | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 99 | 90% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 20 | 18% |
| Student > Bachelor | 15 | 14% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 13% |
| Professor | 9 | 8% |
| Other | 8 | 7% |
| Other | 24 | 22% |
| Unknown | 20 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 19 | 17% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 17 | 15% |
| Psychology | 15 | 14% |
| Neuroscience | 10 | 9% |
| Engineering | 8 | 7% |
| Other | 19 | 17% |
| Unknown | 22 | 20% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 50. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 October 2023.
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