RE: What is the current best scientific evidence we have that shows that consciousness...
January 13, 2025 at 12:01 am
(This post was last modified: January 13, 2025 at 12:01 am by Fake Messiah.)
born_to_be_a_loser Wrote:What is the current best scientific evidence we have that shows that consciousness ends with death?
Is there evidence that anything doesn't exist (in this case life after death for consciousness)? There is rather lack of evidence that something exist.
I would rather recommend you a book called "Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife" by Mary Roach about scientists who researched the possibilities of consciousness surviving the death and how they all ended up without satisfying results. She tackles the notion that the soul weighs 21 grams, the doctor in India who claims that reincarnation is real, or the case in 1925 when a farmer in North Carolina claimed that his dead father's ghost appeared to him to reveal the location of the hidden will. The interesting thing about this is that the court ruled in favor of the ghost's will (or the children settled in favor of it), but then Mary went there herself in 2004 with a handwriting expert who concluded that the will was a forgery.
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