The Infinite Last Moment Hypothesis: Temporal Phenomenology, Neurochemistry, and Eschatological Choice at the Threshold of Death
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) February 6, 2026 Paul D Prideaux
This paper proposes a novel framework for understanding the phenomenology of dying and its relationship to religious conceptions of salvation and damnation. Drawing on evidence from altered states research, near-death experience literature, and endogenous neurochemistry, I argue that the final moments of life may be characterized by profound subjective time dilation such that a single thought...