I disagree. I didn’t mean that to say there was no brain activity, only there was no brain activity through which it could be determined the patient was conscious/aware. If consciousness/awareness could be determined by observing brain activity then this method would not have been necessary.
The idea here is that the ‘self’, in my view being the soul, uses the brain as a tool to interact with the physical world, and is not created/generated by the physical activity of the brain.
I don’t know why that bit was in bold. I didn’t do that purposefully, and couldn’t figure out how to ‘un-bold’ it, if that’s a word.
You’ll have to read the article to find on what observations he reached this conclusion. Didn’t want to post big chunks of it here.