Imagine this: doctors connect equipment to a person who is in a coma or has just died. Then, using MRI, EEG, and neural networks, they translate that person’s brain activity into images and speech, allowing them to see and hear what the dying person is experiencing during their near-death experience. They may even be able to feel what a deceased person feels if there is residual brain activity.
American researcher Michael Bordonaro believes this possibility is quite real. The author’s claim is even more valuable given that he is a medical professional, not a philosopher, as one might assume from the text. He lists existing experiments on translating brain activity into speech and images and suggests using this brain activity as a connection to the afterlife. At first, only one-way communication will be accomplished, but he believes two-way communication with the deceased will also be possible one day. There is already evidence that one can communicate with sleeping people through brain activity, as shown by experiments conducted by researchers at REMspace.
The author acknowledges that there are many ethical questions along this path. However, he is confident that technology is already sufficiently developed to begin experiments, first on animals, then on dying human volunteers, and finally on those who have already been declared dead.
If you had such a connection with a deceased person and could ask them only one question, what question would you ask?
The article was published in August 2024 in the Theory in Biosciences.
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