Today Show Sybill Shepherd and NDEs

[DeistPaladin]

I learned long ago that the best way to deal with worry is to imagine the worst case scenario and ask if we could deal with that. The answer is usually "we can" and the unknown is usually more frightening than the worst case. The worst case scenario is that God gives us one shot at the brass ring and then it's fade-to-black, credits roll. It won't be painful. We won't know any better. We'll go to a place where no tears fall, no fears loom over us and no wish goes unfulfilled. I think I can deal with that.

I'm not, while "technically" we "don't know". Our macro medicine is pointing to the safest bet, "You" are merely your brain in motion. It is really a bad idea to treat "you" as separate than your brain" It is a process, combined with fuel/material in a specific structure/and motion.

I think you may need to re-read my post. I'm not disagreeing with you. My description is a flowery one of oblivion.

Ocham's razor basically says when you have competing claims trying to fill in a gap, the one with the least superfluous or no baggage is your most likely answer. And that is one of the core principles of modern science today. When you sit up an experiment you don't over complicate the data, formula, or control groups or methodology. Keep it as simple as possible.

Trying to separate you from your brain begs more questions than it would solve. Our consciousness is an outcome of those factors mentioned, those are specific in size and arrangement. Take those things away, the process cannot function.

Again, I don't disagree. I would only say that there is a difference between discussing what we know or even what seems most likely given the information we have vs. opening the field to speculation, so long as it is clearly labeled as such.