¿Does anyone knows, or have the paper of S. L. Thayer? The wiki puts this:
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Computational psychology[edit]
Modeling of NDEs by S. L. Thaler in 1993
[125] using
artificial neural networks has shown that many aspects of the core near-death experience can be achieved through simulated neuron death.
[126][127][128][129] In the course of such simulations, the essential features of the NDE—life review, novel scenarios (i.e.,
heaven or
hell), and OBE—are observed through the generation of confabulations or false memories, as discussed in
Confabulation (neural networks). The key feature contributing to the generation of such confabulatory states are a neural network's inability to differentiate dead from silent neurons.
[130] Memories, whether related to direct experience, or not, can be seeded upon arrays of such inactive brain cells."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-death_experience#Computational_psychology