Over the past year, alongside various projects, I have been working on what I consider the most ambitious undertaking I have ever taken on: trying to explain death.
That inescapable reality we push out of our minds for most of our lives, yet one that, without exception, we will all eventually have to face.
I am not referring to mystical, religious, narrative, or metaphysical hypotheses.
I am talking about confronting the act of dying head-on and attempting to understand it from a phenomenological, chemical, and experiential perspective.
Electroencephalograms and neurochemical discharges. Time perception and temporal dilation.
The result of this work has taken the form of a book that is extremely rigorous from a scientific standpoint, yet difficult to place: both because of the subject it addresses and because of the cold, lucid approach applied to a deeply visceral theme.
Added to this is a personal awareness: I do not come from the field of neuroscience, even though the book is not sectorial but explicitly syncretic.
For this reason, I decided to postpone the publication of the book and to let the theory pass first through the crucible of scientific review.
The first step in this process is the publication of the theory in its most essential, bare-bones form, as a scientific preprint.
This marks the beginning of a path that will continue with academic discussion, the passage, hopefully, through a scientific journal, and finally with the publication of a popular science book intended for a broader audience.
For those who wish to explore this theory of dying and the final subjective experience of consciousness, the text is available as a preprint on Zenodo, with DOI:
target=_blank>https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18412376
P.S. Zenodo is one of the world’s leading open-access scientific repositories, supported by CERN, and is used to make articles, data, and theories publicly available in a traceable, citable, and verifiable form for the scientific community.
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