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“If the thinking was that thukdam is something we can measure in the brain, this study suggests that’s not the right place to look,”

“If we find some kind of post-mortem signal and can say, that’s consciousness, that would be earth-shattering,”

As Tibetan Buddhists have long believed, biological death is more like a process—or a journey through various states—than a simple on/off switch.

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