Everena: You never took him seriously to begin with. He still has a partially proven theory with 20 testable predictions, 6 of which that are now confirmed and none that are refuted. It is proven and corroborated science no matter what someone like you pretends to think. Deepak is only in the picture because he has studied consciousness extensively too, but from a different perspective.
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Why would you assume that would even happen anyway?
Because we are here to experience this life's challenges with no memory of life before this.
Because we are human beings, conscious intelligent life, not computers.
Deepak Chopra is a doctor and was the Chief of Staff at New England Memorial Hospital. He gave up his very successful career to study and teach eastern philosophies and he has spent years researching and studying consciousness, long before science even became interested.
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(November 24, 2018 at 3:30 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: I took it seriously enough to look it up and think about it. I even gave you predictions of my own. Explain to me how magnets don't sheer your soul away.
How can you survive an MRI?
Why would you assume that would even happen anyway?
(November 24, 2018 at 3:30 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: Why does consciousness always focus on the here and now if it's being received from elsewhere?
Because we are here to experience this life's challenges with no memory of life before this.
(November 24, 2018 at 3:30 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: Why do we not observe intricate arrangements of microtubules in computational arrays?
Because we are human beings, conscious intelligent life, not computers.
(November 24, 2018 at 3:30 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: Deepak Chopra hasn't studied consciousness from any perspective. He's a woomeister peddling deepities to suckers.
Deepak Chopra is a doctor and was the Chief of Staff at New England Memorial Hospital. He gave up his very successful career to study and teach eastern philosophies and he has spent years researching and studying consciousness, long before science even became interested.