Sebastian Junger
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
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 β
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.
I was a week in the hospital.
It was a surprise to everybody.
But the reason I survived it all was that I'm a fit, athletic person.
And so I gave the doctor something to work with.
It also meant that I recovered quite quickly.
So instead of three weeks in the ICU, I was five days.
And then, boom, I'm out of there, right?
And so I came home.
And it's not the kind of party you would expect, right?