PHI 2396 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Orthodox Judaism, Brain Death, Pineal Gland
3 Jan 2017
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The departure of the soul from the body: plato, orthodox jewish and christian traditions, Rene descartes believed that the soul resided in the pineal gland at the base of the brain with the sign of departure was the cessation of breath. Neuroscience is questioning the notion os a separate spiritual entity. If soul leaving is really last breath, doctors can keep a human breathing years after all function in brain is lost. Whole brain death: the person is dead when all brain functions have ceased, including functions of the higher brain (consciousness, language, and voluntary movement) and those of the lower brain (spontaneous breathing and pupillary re exes) Irreversible comatose patients? (lower brain stem still functions) Re-examine death through the asymptotic model and a bounded zone de nition (death is a process of losing life, which occurs gradually in stages), where death is a procession an event or state.
