re: "Are ‘Near-Death Experiences’ Real?" (The New York Times, February 14, 2020)
It would be interesting to know what percentage of medical doctors make such wildly unwarranted claims about what the NDE evidence can credibly tell us about the supernatural, which is by definition supernatural.
Surely their medical training taught them to reason a little more rationally from evidence to theory, even outside their field of professional competence?
Is it only doctors who write populist books who seriously believe that there are souls floating around with some undetectable but real connection to our objectively actual physical selves, including brain activity? Does the interaction between the natural and the supernatural take place in the pineal gland, or do the physicians propounding these interesting metaphysical speculations have a better locus in mind than did Descartes?
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