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A doctor's experience with the afterlife
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A doctor's experience with the afterlife
Am I the only one frustrated by this article?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/20...rlife.html

He's supposed to be a man of science. He's supposed to have an understanding of how the brain works and he's supposed to understand how it can affect your mind when changes are made to your brain (for example, bacteria eating your brain). He's even supposed to value empirical data and evidence. When you take that into consideration, it's extremely frustrating that he's chalking this up to afterlife.
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RE: A doctor's experience with the afterlife
So how is dreaming during a coma medically impossible? How is a NDE not entirely unlike that had by other people, which could be traced to brain activity in them, 'proof' of an afterlife? And here's the big one: How can he visit an afterlife if he wasn't dead!?!
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RE: A doctor's experience with the afterlife
Quote:Although I considered myself a faithful Christian,


There's your answer.
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RE: A doctor's experience with the afterlife
(October 14, 2012 at 5:44 pm)Darkstar Wrote: So how is dreaming during a coma medically impossible? How is a NDE not entirely unlike that had by other people, which could be traced to brain activity in them, 'proof' of an afterlife? And here's the big one: How can he visit an afterlife if he wasn't dead!?!

Because changes to your brain can change your own perceptions. If the right changes were made to your brain, you'd be absolutely certain that yesterday someone turned you into a duck and then changed you back (hell, the right changes can convince someone that they're still a duck). And if the right changes are made while you're unconscious, you'll be absolutely certain you saw angels and heaven.
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RE: A doctor's experience with the afterlife
Yes I too am frustrated by an alleged person of science leaping to this claim based on one subjective experience.
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RE: A doctor's experience with the afterlife
As far as I know whilest dying, ones mind goes through all sorts of memorised scenarios to find one wich might relate to the current one, and wich may help you save your life.
One might aswell (I`m assuming) go through fantasies one has had. I`m actualy looking forward to that. Remembering great past moments or just the fantasy of riding through pink Hamburg on a unicorn.
I am certain, that what one sees in his or her final minutes, hours or days, depends alot one wich memories have the biggest impact or wich things are remembered best or were indoctrinated in the best way. So if someone was indoctrinated in a religious way I wouldnt be suprised if he or she sees something religious in those moments.

I know of 3 cases in the erea where I grew up, where the dying started to sing nazi propaganda songs, wich they were succesfully indoctinated to sing as kids, in their final minutes. Try and make a religious ad out of that.
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RE: A doctor's experience with the afterlife
(October 14, 2012 at 5:58 pm)TaraJo Wrote: Because changes to your brain can change your own perceptions. If the right changes were made to your brain, you'd be absolutely certain that yesterday someone turned you into a duck and then changed you back (hell, the right changes can convince someone that they're still a duck). And if the right changes are made while you're unconscious, you'll be absolutely certain you saw angels and heaven.

Well, yeah, that's certainly the scientifically correct answer (which the doctor completely glossed over). My main point is, this guy is ignoring common sense in that he thinks he was able to visit the afterlife without dying.
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RE: A doctor's experience with the afterlife
Simply the mind's interpretation of the hallucination due to memory deprivation.

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RE: A doctor's experience with the afterlife
If he is here to blather about it, then evidently it didn't occur after his death. Why is this not clear to even Christians?
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RE: A doctor's experience with the afterlife
Because they are thick as shit?
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