Have you ever thought in your last
minute alive? What would you think? What would you feel? Are you curious to
know what it feels being shot in the head, hit a hundred km glass or just feel your
last breath? You can stop asking you that question, because you will not know
that even if it happens to you. Would you like to know why? Now, I am going to
explain it.
First
of all, this is difficult because the brain takes time to process an
experience. The signals that we perceive and integrate as experiences, take
time to go through the neurocórtex and being assimilated. The neuroscientist
David Eagleman says , "we are always living in the past." According
to Eagleman, our brain takes between 150 milliseconds and 300 milliseconds in
assembling a conscious experience after sensing a signal. This is because our
brain takes the time to synchronize everything we perceive, when things happen
at different speeds and at different distances. For instance, the sound and the
light travel at different speeds, which we perceive in daily lightning.
One example is if the person dies
because a bullet is very peculiar. There are numerous cases where people have
survived a gunshot wound when the bullet passes through parts of the brain
without causing much damage because of their size. However, even if the person
survives, we lost our conscious because is a delicate phenomenon which depends
on the interaction of electrical signals traveling constantly in the brain.
In conclusion, it would be difficult
that you experience your last minute alive, that you feel that second when you
died. It would happen, but according to this theory, without conscious, you
will not know what is going to happen to you, you will keep living in the past
when you are dead.
Do you know another theory that
arguments the opposite to this one? Have you ever thought about that?
I think about possible ways of dying every time I cannot sleep, and this idea of a painful death scares me. In this sense, this theory made me feel quiet since it does not care if die in accident because I will not feel anything.
ReplyDeleteI think that most people have thought about their own death during their lifetime. When you talk about death and that we are living in the past, it reminded me when you are facing a struggling moment (like an accident) and your life passes within a minute before your eyes; Once that happened to me, I fell down from my bike and during the 6 or 7 seconds that it last was like 5 minutes and I remembered everything that I had done that day.
ReplyDeleteAs Paula said, it calms be down the fact that Im not going to realize that I m going to die until the very last milisecond. Actually I never think how am I going to die but some years ago I was really scared about the possibility of dieing because of and brain stroke until I wento to the doctor in order check if eeryting in my brain was ok.
ReplyDeleteI loooove this topic!
ReplyDeleteI always always get killed in dreams. I just don't know why and cannot explain it. I don't think about it that much so maybe that's why.
It feels weird and when I wake up I have the same feeling I had in the dream.
One time I got shut and I felt so calmed. I knew I was dying and my body felt like floating. I could feel the blood draining out but it was amazing. I was dying with no pain at all.
My only wish is to die like in my dream.