Death Is Not Final
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?
8 Responses to “Death Is Not Final”
Besides the fact that James Randi has never had his longstanding $100,000 check claimed in the decades he’s offered it for anyone who can prove any paranormal activity, though many have tried, every account I’ve ever read about has been debunked.
Also, fact checking the statement by the pro side of what Carl Sagan stated as a belief on page 302 of “The Demon Haunted World,” which can be easily checked electronically online, yielded that there was no such statement on that page, nor the pages previous or after.
Nothing even close to the claim. Look for yourself. The passage is about educating children optimally and makes no mention of “chidren’s memories of past lives.” This is just one clear, easily checked fact of this man’s lack of factual evidence.
What is IntelligernceSquarerd doing? Are they trying to destroy their reputation? As soon as I saw that Eben Alexander was involved I thought it was a spoof.
104:50 “We don’t have to know how the brain creates consciousness in order to know that it creates consciousness.” I disagree with this statement. He’s making a leap of faith here in believing that the brain creates consciousness…and yet he’s arguing against faith. We don’t know if the brain creates consciousness or if consciousness is separate from the brain. We can reliably test components of what we call consciousness in laboratories, but it doesn’t negate the idea of a consciousness outside that which can be tested (i.e. we are limited by the physical nature of our tests vs. the ethereal nature of consciousness).
Three words: double slit experiment. Take that as you will.
Only victims go back to peace, rest of of you, black hole .
Any after-death-life needs to be based on scientific proof. And the advance of science in recent years might actually supports the possibility of after-death-life. For example, the hologram and multi-universe theories might suggest that reality might just be an simulation, like information on the hologram sphere, being projected into all the universes. If you die in one universe, it is only the projection in that universe “dies”.
All human beans die. There is no “here after”. What happens when you die is very understandable. First,,,you see light. Next you are thirsty , then you have pains in your feet. Next,,,it feels like a bug bite on your hand. Then,,,,,there is darkness.
The “death is final” guy talks like he is petitioning for office, trying to use techniques to “win’ the argument rather than simply stating the facts and letting them weigh out on their own ~