From: KimbaWLion_aol.com@127.0.0.1   
      
   epochii@aol.com (Epoch II) wrote:   
      
   > if the NDE is hardwired into our brain after years of   
   >evolution to provide comfort and ease to those who are dying...   
      
   Going further than the flaw in that idea that you pointed out, the most   
   basic flaw in that concept is that it goes against the concept of   
   evolution. There is absolutely no evolutionary pressure to preserve a   
   mechanism to comfort the dying. Evolution is about surviving--if a   
   characteristic is to be selected by evolution, it must be passed on to the   
   next generation. Something that only appears when dying has absolutely   
   nothing to do with increasing its chances of being passed on.   
      
   So the idea that an NDE is a "hardwired" function of the brain also   
   requires the belief that it spontaneously appears in the exact same form   
   in brains throughout the population.   
      
      
      
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