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Astrophysicist claims strokes are equivalent to many deaths of the brain

StarTalk Radio · Would You Really Want to Know if You’re in a Simulation? · July 14, 2026
Astrophysicist claims strokes are equivalent to many deaths of the brain
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"Everyone who says what happens to your consciousness when you die, a series of many strokes are many deaths of your brain. And as far as we can tell, that's what's happening to you when you die. None of that works. So now that's not very comforting to people especially not to religious people who have a whole story of what happens to you when you die."
Tyson argued that consciousness and identity gradually disappear with each stroke that damages brain tissue, functionally representing multiple partial deaths. He extended this to suggest that death itself is simply the complete cessation of electrochemical brain activity, with nothing persisting afterward. This directly challenges religious narratives about consciousness surviving bodily death.
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