Sebastian Junger

So they did something that would otherwise not be ethical.

If someone's going to die, you're like, hey, let's hook him up to see what his brain does.

That's not ethical, right?

This guy already had that stuff in place as part of the life-saving measures.

So they were able to see what happened at the moment of death, right?

So what happened in the human brain, in his brain, was that there was a flood of – I think it was –

gamma in his brain that um uh that is associated with long-term memory a flood of gamma in his brain right and uh and that was uh and one other frequency i can't remember at any rate there was this the brain did basically did what brains do when they're remembering very very old stuff right

And that they even found that in rats that they ethically are able to kill, like hook them up, kill them.

What happens in the brain, right?

And so the most ancient sort of memory source centers of the brain are activated at the moment of death while there's a sort of lingering, dying consciousness.

So, boom, all of a sudden you're five and you're talking to your grandfather.

You know, whatever it is, we don't know the specific things that that man saw, but we know that the –

his brain was activated in ways that suggest memory retrieval, right?

So the rationalist is like, okay, the brain dies.

All of a sudden you'd see your, you know, you have these old memories, right?

So now for me, as I read, so I got home and,

So it's a rather convoluted story, but hopefully it's interesting.

So I got home.

I was a week in the hospital.

It was a surprise to everybody.