The thought is materialistic?
The experiment is. Did you read the article? Kill the internet and your "telepathy" will vanish.
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- viole
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The thought is materialistic?
It's happening every now and then, but the explanations is guessing.
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/09/health/belgium-near-death-experiences/
The explanation will be no explanation until you show to me that those experiences happened exactly during cerebral death .
But think about it for a moment. Even if those experiences took place during brain death, how could the patients remember it, if their memory forming mechanism was dead? You can invoke a memory carrying soul or some other spiritual mean of having memory: but that comes with the price tag of declaring the "design" of our complex brain memory functions to be completely useless or redundant.
Remove your spiritual bias, for a moment, and everything will be clear.
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- viole
The experiment is. Did you read the article? Kill the internet and your "telepathy" will vanish.
Ciao
- viole
Now, is my point registering with you that these patients are describing events and quirky little things that happened DURING the time they were showing no higher brain functioning? An example might be knowing a nurse changed a mask or glove or something like that during the time that they were flat-lined..But in this particular case there is no viable answer to my simple question. The only "evidence" is reports given by people who could not possibly tell you when something really happened and It has all characteristics of proof by positive bias or wishful thinking.
I hope you are not confusing the points I and serious scientists are making with some flamboyant tabloid headlines out there?? We are not claiming 'proof' of life after death by western science's definition of 'proof'.So, claiming a scientific proof that there is life after death because of those reports is, frankly, ridicolous. Even if there is indeed life after death.
I see. Something similar happened to someone that my sister-in-law knew. She was paralyzed but could still feel pain. Awful situation.Actually, according to her, she heard the doctors. She was trying to speak to tell the doctor that something was wrong. I know in my surgery, they knocked me out cold. However, mine was brain surgery. I think with hers, they needed to keep her somewhat awake. She could have mistaken it for outer body experience. The feeling was mostly pain in the chest but it wasn't a feeling like sensation. She said it was actual pain.
I know if that was the case, my family would have brought up a lawsuit on that. She was in a military hospital; so, I don't know how that would have played out.
To butt in, many serious post-materialist scientists now believe memory storage is non-local and that the brain memory area is really the mechanism to retrieve our own personal specific memories while physically conscious. So when recalling an NDE a person may be experiencing memory directly (through their subtle body) and why they commonly claim that the memories of their NDE are different and more real and vivid than normal memory (one slower denser step removed?).But think about it for a moment. Even if those experiences took place during brain death, how could the patients remember it, if their memory forming mechanism was dead?
Here, the machine interprets EEG from the brain. When moving the hand or imagine moving the hand, certain areas of brain are stimulated. It's up to the computer to interpret the ones and the zeros from electrical activity in the brain. This is still completely in realm of material science.The subjects in India were trained to generate an EEG signal representing either a one or a zero using a biofeedback monitor. A one was generated when subjects imagined moving a hand, while a zero was produced when subjects imagined moving a foot. These ones and zeros were then emailed from India to France, and routed to one of two TMS devices mounted on subjects’ scalps. Ones were routed to a TMS electrode that caused a phosphene to be perceived , while Zeros were routed to a different TMS device whose activity produced no phosphenes.
Maybe the Greeks had it right, and we are just little chess pieces on the giant board that the gods play before they go to bed at night?To butt in, many serious post-materialist scientists now believe memory storage is non-local and that the brain memory area is really the mechanism to retrieve our own personal specific memories while physically conscious. So when recalling an NDE a person may be experiencing memory directly (through their subtle body) and why they commonly claim that the memories of their NDE are different and more real and vivid than normal memory (one slower denser step removed?).
There are working theories for all this is what I am saying.
My brother and I played this EEG-based game once where a ball is rolled from one side of the table to the other using brain activity. It was wild. You can literally concentrate your way to victory.Here, the machine interprets EEG from the brain. When moving the hand or imagine moving the hand, certain areas of brain are stimulated. It's up to the computer to interpret the ones and the zeros from electrical activity in the brain. This is still completely in realm of material science.
Here is an example of things we can do with brainwaves even as hobby:
I had an even cooler example in mind of people toycars with their brainwaves, but couldn't find the video.
Were there wires connected to your head involved?My brother and I played this EEG-based game once where a ball is rolled from one side of the table to the other using brain activity. It was wild. You can literally concentrate your way to victory.
Seems to me that if you are not impressed by the article and you already believe what the article is claiming, then I have no alternative than to bow to your more qualified expertise on the matter.I didn't think the article was very good at all. Very unclear as to what it was trying to tell us. My only interesting take from the article is that there seems to have been a confirmed case of somebody knowing verifiable details around their body during the experience (I would assume details that could not have been learned through the normal channels but the article was so poorly written). I question how much the author understands about the subject. My son is an on-line free-lance journalist and writes about restaurants he's never been to and stuff like that.
I believe with certainty from the cumulative paranormal evidence across multiple fields (but not from this article).
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The subjects in India were trained to generate an EEG signal representing either a one or a zero using a biofeedback monitor. A one was generated when subjects imagined moving a hand, while a zero was produced when subjects imagined moving a foot. These ones and zeros were then emailed from India to France, and routed to one of two TMS devices mounted on subjects’ scalps. Ones were routed to a TMS electrode that caused a phosphene to be perceived , while Zeros were routed to a different TMS device whose activity produced no phosphenes.
This figure illustrates how the mind to mind communication path worked.
Source: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0105225
Here, the machine interprets EEG from the brain. When moving the hand or imagine moving the hand, certain areas of brain are stimulated. It's up to the computer to interpret the ones and the zeros from electrical activity in the brain. This is still completely in realm of material science.
Here is an example of things we can do with brainwaves even as hobby:
I had an even cooler example in mind of people toycars with their brainwaves, but couldn't find the video.
If you were to believe the interviews and stories of thousands of stoners on a bad trip, time dilation is a real thing, not just a completely physical, commonplace distortion of senses. In fact I'd go as far to say that people in critical conditions especially oxygen deprivation are the least reliable testimony to their surroundings that there is.
But let's stop at our 23rd Grandmother. Does she still exist?If we'll go further then we'll be the bacteria, and bacteria still existing.
You can be coherent and still have your senses altered to such an extent that what you think you're seeing and hearing isn't reliable. Lots of people with no spiritual or religious interest then 'discovered' it at the hands of intoxicating substances or when there is sensory malfunction going on due to a crisis. I can't assure you all cases were like that, but it's why I take all cases with a boulder sized grain of salt. Their testimony is simply not reliable.Thanks for your post Digital...
The people I interviewed in hospital I assure you were quite coherent and had no previous studies in metaphysical or interest in paranormal phenomenau which I think added to their credibility.
- Art