- 17 - The question arises: • Is a person, whose tissue does not break down because it is attached to a machine, already dead or still alive? • When is a person “dead enough” that one can turn the machine off? Or is one not allowed to switch it off at all, because it would constitute murdering a helpless organism? The necessity to find a new formula for what death actually means became increasingly clearer. An exact point in time when I person was dead had to be determined, so that one could harvest the organs. Brainwaves seemed to be most suitable to solve this problem. Only when the EEG no longer records any activity for some time, ergo shows a flatline, can one assume with certainty that the brainwaves have definitely stopped. But the EEG is only an indicator in regards to the activity of the cerebral cortices, but not for the functions of the brainstem. Flatlines are therefore only an uncertain sign that the brain is dead. The EEG should in practice be supplemented with angiograms as well as clinical and laboratory examinations when it comes to faultlessly determine the onset of the brain’s death. But can one actually do this? Professor Paul Glees, who died in 1999, said that brainwaves had a solid relationship with the mental processing of sensory perceptions. The slower brainwaves seemed to play a role when it comes to processing a memory content into a thought. Simply put one can say that our consciousness can only be accessed through brainwaves. This also seemed to coincide with the medical sphere of experience: When our brainwaves expire, we no longer have consciousness. With the determination we have gained an insight that makes us wonder whether it is a final capstone or a threshold to a new insight. If our consciousness can only be retrieved with the help of brainwaves, it must simultaneously mean that our consciousness dies when the brainwaves expire. The fact that brainwaves expire cannot be doubted. The EEG verifies this via flatlines. Medicine regards this as the moment of death. Do we stand before a capstone or on a threshold? We stand before a capstone if it is true that only brainwaves can retrieve consciousness and that consciousness dies the moment brainwaves expire. But we would stand on a threshold if we could verify that consciousness continues to exist beyond the expiration of brainwaves. If we could show that it is also possible to access memory content without the presence of brainwaves. There would only be one - indeed sensational - explanation: • The carrier of memory contents would have to be another, up to now unknown ENERGY. An ENERGY that outlasts the death of the brain. This ENERGY - we could at least conclude this within our working hypothesis - must be the CARRIER of the consciousness that survives death. Physicist and cybernetic Jean Jacques Delpasse and neurologist William Jongh van Amsynck tried to provide evidence of the existence
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