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    It is not the case that There is no one medical or physiological cause of near-death experiences.

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    • 1.Neurologist Olaf Blanke's research identifies temporoparietal junction disruption as a consistent neural correlate across diverse NDE reports.
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    • 2.A single neural mechanism can be triggered by multiple distinct medical conditions, making physiological diversity compatible with causal unity.
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    • 1.REM intrusion theory, advanced by Nelson et al. (2006), proposes that a unified neurochemical state—cholinergic activation during near-death stress—underlies the full NDE phenomenology.
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    • 2.Phenomenological consistency across NDEs (tunnel, light, life review) is better explained by a common cause than by irreducibly plural, unrelated medical triggers.
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    • Near-death experiences occur for persons in a great variety of medical conditions.
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