Chapter 98: The Materialist Doctor's Near Death

As soon as these words were spoken, the entire hall fell silent.

In the lecture hall, experts looked at each other, and everyone could see the shock on the others' faces.

In a state where vision is completely shut down...

Does a near-death patient truly sever all information contact with the outside world?

No!

They are not completely isolated from outside information!

Besides vision, humans also have smell, hearing, taste, and touch actively working.

Even if these four senses are not as tangible as the information obtained through vision!

But these four senses are truly and genuinely at work!

Even if vision is shut down, people are still constantly perceiving all information from the outside world, though the authenticity of that information is greatly discounted.

However!

What if we add a "Heart Sense" to that?

Heart Sense, also known as brain sense or Sixth Sense, goes by different names in different schools of thought.

Many biologists, medical experts, and psychologists present were lost in thought, as they had all, to varying degrees, encountered such real-life cases.

Many cases were indeed as Jiang Zhe described—

Those people saw themselves undergoing surgery, and some, after waking up, could even clearly describe the appearance of the doctors who operated on them.

In the past, when they first encountered near-death cases, they only thought it was somewhat miraculous and never delved deeper.

But they never expected...

That what those near-death patients said was actually true!

The lecture hall was silent for a moment, then shifted from quiet to lively, filled with discussions.

"Your body does not allow you to die so cowardly. For some reason, this sentence inexplicably encouraged me."

"When a near-death patient enters a near-death state, their vision is gone; but the other four senses plus [Awareness] still exist. Right, right! How did I overlook this key factor?"

"Exactly, whether it's hearing, smell, taste, or touch, these four senses can perceive the surroundings and then create a visual scene in the mind. Finally, by utilizing [Awareness] to perform secondary processing on the world that these near-death patients cannot see with their own eyes; the processed world has more details and is more perfect... Too sharp, this solution is truly too sharp!"

"Incredible, truly unbelievable!"

"..."

Many people's faces gradually revealed a look of fanatical shock.

Past unsolved mysteries were completely solved at this moment, which was a kind of spiritual cleansing!

In the eyes of medical experts: they approved of this analytical solution because it was very reliable!

But the one point of doubt was Awareness...

The term Awareness truly exceeded the cognition of the medical experts.

However, biologists and psychologists had no doubts in this regard.

Like biologists studying biological evolution, ancient humans from the distant past had brain sense, or Sixth Sense, that was far stronger than that of modern humans.

Due to the degradation of crisis-response capabilities, when facing visible crises, most modern humans just wait to die on the spot.

For example: when a truck rushes towards them, most ordinary people cannot react in time to dodge.

But those ancient humans were completely different!

After long periods of fighting, hunting, and being hunted, the slightest disturbance could trigger their brain sense's alert.

For instance, if ancient humans knew what a truck was, the moment it rushed at them, most would have the ability to dodge the crisis, whereas modern humans have seen this ability significantly weakened!

This directly indicates—

The crisis-sensing ability of modern humans is far weaker than that of the ancient, primeval, and even prehistoric eras!

In the eyes of these experts, the "killing intent" sensed by martial arts masters in wuxia films actually comes from [brain sense].

Psychology experts believed in the existence of the Sixth Sense/brain sense more than any other scholars present.

Because they had hypnotized patients, and through the patients' verbal accounts, they had heard with their own ears the hypnotized patients describing scenes happening at that very moment.

Some patients could, while in a sleep state, describe where they were at that moment and what they could [see].

Of course, this [seeing] was not visual [seeing], but rather, as Jiang Zhe said, it was [Awareness]!

Soon, the psychologists all wore curious expressions.

"In the past, during hypnosis therapy, I thought those people were peeking, secretly observing the scene; but it turned out they were truly asleep, yet they could still describe everything in the outside world. Including what I was saying at that moment, including me picking up a water cup to drink, the hypnotized patients could also perceive it through Awareness."

"Yes, if Teacher Jiang hadn't said it like that, I would have always thought those hypnotized people were talking nonsense... Thinking about it carefully, it's actually a bit terrifying!"

"Human's Sixth Sense, I have actually always firmly believed—when facing danger, people don't use their normal five senses to see; many people will feel their heart tremble and their pupils constrict; these manifestations are actually [Awareness] telling the person: [You are in danger, run!]"

"..."

As for the other experts, they just listened for the novelty and felt it was somewhat magical.

Professor Hua Yunfeng and Old Feng scanned the audience, then looked at Jiang Zhe on the big screen.

Curious expressions appeared on their faces.

Professor Hua Yunfeng said with a smile: "This Jiang Zhe, his explanation is really sharp, making it impossible for me to find a reason to refute it."

Professor Feng couldn't help but grin, "Awareness. When a near-death patient has their vision closed off, the other four senses replace [vision], but this replacement is not as good as seeing with one's own eyes; then add [Awareness]... Hmm, in this way, it is indeed more detailed than what one sees with their own eyes!"

Professor Hua Yunfeng nodded gently, "Right, according to Teacher Jiang's explanation, some people who can enter meditation can overlook the world from high above; an old friend in psychology told me about this potential ability before; I didn't believe it at the time; but now..."

"Do you believe it now?"

"No, I am now skeptical!"

"Then what the heck are you talking about~"

"I feel like it!"

Just as the two old men were bickering, Jiang Zhe's voice came from the big screen again.

"However, do you all think this is the end?"

"No, far from it. Some near-death experiments involved complete brain death, and after death, they actually saw relatives who had passed away years ago, whom they had never met, and finally came back to life!!!"

"This completely transcends the time limits of a near-death state!"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone was dumbfounded; they were all shocked.

The audience had just been shocked by the mysterious experience of [Awareness].

The next second, Jiang Zhe upgraded the difficulty himself?

"I just accepted the existence of [Awareness], and now you're telling me someone died completely for a long time and then came back to life?"

"Is there such an example, experts? Is there really such an example?"

"I am a medical student. Yes, but not many; there are only about 200 cases worldwide; it's roughly when vital signs have disappeared for 8 to 45 minutes."

"The longest is coming back to life after 45 minutes?"

"Wait, I checked the data. Isn't the longest one Huang Zhongquan from our country? He died 101 times in 30 years."

"Not him. That was apparent death; I'm talking about real death for the longest 45 minutes and then coming back to life; not apparent death, but real death!"

"Hiss~~ I didn't expect the viewers in the live stream to be so capable. After Jiang Zhe goes offline, you guys should go up and solve it."

"This... Brother, you're joking. How can we compare to Teacher Jiang."

"Speaking of near-death, can it be classified as [hallucinations]? But if it were hallucinations, as Jiang Zhe said, do near-death patients have out-of-body experiences and see doctors performing surgery on them? I hope a big-brained brother can explain it to me."

"You can understand it like this, it's like this..."

"..."

Soon, the audience privately discussed the boundary between near-death and death to get to the bottom of it.

Near-death is when a part of the body is still active; most can be classified as hallucinations!

As for out-of-body experiences, observing doctors performing surgery on the body, that belongs to special circumstances; conventional science cannot explain it, and only Jiang Zhe's solution can be used.

And death is indeed death, where all functions are shut down, for example, the brain completely stops working, which is brain death, and the doctor declares the patient dead; yet there is a miraculous turnaround.

At this moment, on the big screen, Jiang Zhe smiled slightly.

"Due to limited program time, we will not talk too much about near-death experiments!"

"The following near-death experiments are nothing more than—"

"Some near-death patients truly entered the realm of death, and then were rescued by doctors after 8 to 45 minutes."

"If we say that near-death patients seeing themselves being rescued and the real-time conversations and environment in the operating room can still be explained by [Awareness]."

"But the next one—"

"Like a neurologist in the United States, Eben Alexander, who experienced 7 days and 7 nights of near-death; he saw a sister he had never met before."

"A reminder: Alexander was adopted. His biological parents were 18 and 16-year-old high school students; when they gave birth to him, they abandoned him; he was later adopted by the Eben family in the United States, received a good education, and became a neurologist."

"In the near-death state, he saw a relative he had never met, namely, a sister he had never seen before, born after his biological mother remarried."

"When Alexander entered this near-death state, that sister he had never met also said similar words to Eben: [You don't belong here, go back quickly]."

Speaking of this, Jiang Zhe asked a question with a serious face.

"If we say that a near-death patient seeing themselves being rescued is considered normal, then seeing a half-sister who died years ago and whom they had never met, can that still be considered normal?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the audience and experts shook their heads repeatedly.

This is extremely, or rather, nine-tenths abnormal.

In order to verify the truth of Jiang Zhe's words, they even specifically searched for this case on the internet.

People were surprised to find that there really was such a person in the United States, and he even wrote his death experience into a book, "Proof of Heaven."