Sebastian Junger

Right, right.

Well, another thing they can do is stimulate the brain during brain surgery, and they do that to make sure that they're not scooping out tumor, not your piano lessons or whatever, right?

And one of the things they can do is they stimulate certain parts of the brain.

They can give people a sensation that they're floating or…

or that they, oh my God, my grandfather, you know, whatever.

They can do weird shit with the brain with basically a toothpick and a bone saw, right?

And so at any rate, just suffice it to say there's the sort of slightly mystical argument of this is proof of an afterlife, and then there's the sort of rationalist argument, no, no, no, we understand the physiology of all this.

And so there was a guy in, I think it was Estonia, an older guy who fell and hit his head, he had a hematoma,

They put electrodes on his scalp to see what the brain activity was because he was having seizures.

Other stuff happened to him that the family said, you know, he doesn't have a chance of recuperating.

You basically pull the plug, let him die.

He had the –

The electrodes on his brain monitoring brain activity before the decision to pull the plug.

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