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IQ2 Intelligence Squared debate: Is the future of the university online?

IQ2 Intelligence Squared  debate on Russia's power

IQ2 debate: Does the President have the constitutional power to target and kill US citizens abroad?

IQ2 Debate: Was Edward Snowden justified?

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If consciousness is just the workings of neurons and synapses, how do we explain the phenomenon of near-death experience? By some accounts, about 3% of the U.S. population has had one: an out-of-body experience often characterized by remarkable visions and feelings of peace and joy, all while the physical body is close to death. To skeptics, there are more plausible, natural explanations, like oxygen deprivation. Is the prospect of an existence after death "real" and provable by science, or a construct of wishful thinking about our own mortality?
From the Intelligence Squared debate series: "Death is Not Final."

IQ2 Intelligence Squared debate: Death is Not Final.

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