The Neurosurgeon's Brain

A Harvard-trained neurosurgeon spent seven days in a coma. In 2008, Eben Alexander contracted

severe bacterial meningitis. Doctors say the infection severely damaged his neocortex the part of

the brain responsible for thought, memory, and conscious experience. Yet during that

coma, Alexander says he experienced something he called… the Core.

A realm beyond space and time. Overwhelming love. Complete clarity. No fear.

No confusion. Here is the problem, experiences that detailed are supposed to

require a functioning cortex. If consciousness is only the brain, how did this

happen?