amandragon01

From what I've read on the matter, it seems there are a lot of cultural elements in NDE's? If so this explains at least some aspects of them. Let's assume for a moment that the process the brain goes through when it shuts down causes NDE's, wouldn't the fact that each brain is somewhat similar and often goes through a similar process during an NDE account for much of the similarity between the experiences, with cultural input and perspective doing the rest? The mind trying to process the information it's getting filters the information through a cultural lens drawing on symbology and cultural expectations? Where is the issue with this as a possible explanation?

As for your argument of intuition and common sense how exactly to do suppose either tells us we're more than a collection of processes? As far as I can see there's no reason to assume either way.

The most valid question is: What would be different if we were just a collection of processes compared to if we had a soul/'free will'? If there's no way to know what if anything would be different then how can we assume either way?