fenwick's findings taken toghater with the materials discussed in this chapter also adress the second question we asked at the begininning of this chapter : what the implications of theses type of experience for our standing of consciousness? not only would consciousness appear to be potentially indpendent of the brain . as we explore in the next chapter but if the deceased continue to exist in the ways in which we have described such survival in this chapter ; than it would appear that our individual experiences and memories apparently don't cease with bodily death .. Further the possibility opens up physicality may not be ever neccesary for certains of conscicouness
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