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	Podcast:		Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates
	Episode:		Bonus Podcast: Is Death Final?
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:48:14
	Publish Date:		2015-10-29 08:15:00
	Description:		If consciousness is just the workings of neurons and synapses, how do we explain the phenomenon of near-death experience? By some accounts, about 3% of the U.S. population has had one: an out-of-body experience often characterized by remarkable visions and feelings of peace and joy, all while the physical body is close to death. To skeptics, there are more plausible, natural explanations, like oxygen deprivation. Is the prospect of an existence after death “real” and provable by science, or a construct of wishful thinking about our own mortality? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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