I came across the Bigelow contest that had a sizeable prize for to people submit articles / essays arguing beyond a reasonable doubt that consciousness survives physical bodily death - here is a link to the top 3 winners: https://www.bigelowinstitute.org/index.php/bics-afterlife-pr...
There's some good material in there.
> I don't know what a proof would look like, but often the experiences involve being disembodied, so a reproduced and reproducible experiment where someone having a near death experience can accurately describe something they couldn't have had prior knowledge of, or guessed, or sensed (heard) in a coma, or found out after waking but before describing, that would be proof. Anecdote is not enough.
There are indeed multiple cases that follow that pattern that have been recorded and in papers (see an example below) - I think they're called "Peak in Darien" cases. The pattern is:
- Person has a near-death experience whilst unconscious
- Something happens whilst they are unconscious that they would have no natural means of knowing
- Same person comes back and has knowledge of what happened
Agree about applying the scientific method. I do think it’s a range of phenomena that does not lend itself to the running of experiments.
That said - in the area of shared death experiences, you have multiple independent accounts of people experiencing the same phenomena, which is harder (or impossible) to brush off as “subjective” experience.
Interesting read - thanks for sharing. I have recently been reading-up on near-death experiences, shared-death experiences, and tangential subjects and highly recommend books like:
On the one side I am happy to see more scientifically-minded people attracted to these topics. At the same time, I am also dismayed at the block a lot of people have at any phenomena that doesn't seem to be physically-based.
I wholeheartedly agree with this comment... and find the way it's articulated refreshing. God forbid we say we hate something without someone being outraged. +1 to 98% hating Microsoft... but also kudos for VSCode and TypeScript.
These types of articles are a great reminder of how prevalent censorship is on mainstream services like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.
Question - what other tech/services exists out there that supports freedom? Would that be in the form of distributed tech like mastodon, for example? Could these be leveraged to trigger tech giants to revert censorship?
Meh... It's demotivating to see that everyday services that everyone uses essentially limit perspectives on how life happens.
There's some good material in there.
> I don't know what a proof would look like, but often the experiences involve being disembodied, so a reproduced and reproducible experiment where someone having a near death experience can accurately describe something they couldn't have had prior knowledge of, or guessed, or sensed (heard) in a coma, or found out after waking but before describing, that would be proof. Anecdote is not enough.
There are indeed multiple cases that follow that pattern that have been recorded and in papers (see an example below) - I think they're called "Peak in Darien" cases. The pattern is:
- Person has a near-death experience whilst unconscious - Something happens whilst they are unconscious that they would have no natural means of knowing - Same person comes back and has knowledge of what happened
Here's a paper from Bruce Greyson - https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/wp-content/uploa...