(February 25, 2016 at 11:18 pm)scoobysnack Wrote: NDE's are experiences that don't fit into the current paradigm, but because we need to make sense of our world, we will form various conclusions to explain it. The whole idea that everything can be explained is a desperate attempt to remain sane. Personally I don't think we as humans have it all figured out. . . . The same thing happens when people talk about what they experience when leaving their body. The first assumption is that is must be delusional, because science says it's nothing, and consciousness can't exist outside the brain.
What about NDEs lies outside the current paradigm of naturalism? Claiming that people leave their bodies is the only hint of something that can't be explained naturalistically, and it's just a bare claim. You don't know that people actually leave their bodies simply because they experience themselves as leaving their bodies. That's simply not compelling evidence. A person may hallucinate a bear in the room; that they experience the existence of a bear in the room is not evidence of an actual bear in the room. You need better evidence than "they experienced it" to conclude that NDE experiences lie outside the current paradigm. What specifically lies outside the current paradigm?