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    The living dead The afterlife has long been an article of religious faith. And now scientists are finally putting the idea to the test From the page: The world, on the face of it, is made of two ingredients: thoughts and things. A brick, for example, is, on the one hand, a fact in the world... more

    Reviewed by aliasinkhorn Dec 15 2008, 11:18am ( 8 reviews ) • timesonline.co.uk

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  • Rated by gamael on Dec 16 2008, 12:22pm

    Pure bullshit. James E. Whinnery's research into loss of consciousness in Air Force pilots revealed that making people black out in centrifuges produces out of body experiences. These are nothing more than the confused experiences of an oxygen starved brain. This article bastardizes the word 'science' and should not be considered a science article at all.

  • Rated by aliasinkhorn on Dec 15 2008, 11:18am

    The living dead The afterlife has long been an article of religious faith. And now scientists are finally putting the idea to the test From the page: The world, on the face of it, is made of two ingredients: thoughts and things. A brick, for example, is, on the one hand, a fact in the world and, on the other, a combination of all my feelings about bricks in general and this brick in particular. This is generally regarded as a very odd state of affairs. My thoughts and feelings are as real to me as the brick, but they dont seem to be made of the same stuff. Indeed, they dont seem to be made of any stuff. The belief that they arent, that the world is made of two different substances bricks and thoughts of bricks is called dualism. Dualism is the default human conviction, embraced by religions, philosophies and, in fact, by everybody in their lives if we didnt embrace some degree of it, wed be constantly worried about crashing our cars into other peoples thoughts. Dualism means that the mind and the brain are not made of the same things and therefore in theory, they can be separated, as in NDEs. Much of modern science can be seen as an attempt to disprove dualism. In the strictly scientific world view there is only one stuff out of which bricks and brains are constructed. My thoughts and feelings are just what the brain does. The brain gives us thoughts to provide the illusion of control. Its largely an illusion that the mind has any effect on the world. Were all imprisoned in the chains of cause and effect that started with the big bang. But in spite of numerous claims, this remains a statement of faith. Neuroscientists may be able to show what happens in the brain when we think or when we exercise free will, but this cannot be shown to be proof that dualism is wrong. Look, they say, weve proved it. Its just neurons firing sparks at each other. Well, no. Those electrical patterns are not thought itself; they may be no more than symptoms of thought. For all our technology, nobody has yet seen a thought, nobody has shown how matter becomes mind. How it does remains one of the most profound questions any human ever asks himself. Enter quantum mechanics. This started as the study of very small things subatomic particles. It is the most effective scientific idea ever it powers your computer, TV, anything dependent on electronics. So we know its true enough to work, but its also weird enough to defy belief. Everything about the discoveries in this area turned out to be in defiance of reason. Crucially, two things were discovered. First, particles can continue to be connected to each other even though separated by long distances billions of light years, even: a phenomenon known as non-locality. This is, in our big world, impossible. Second, quantum theory showed that the mind can affect the world. If, for example, you say that light is made of particles, then, obligingly, light will be particles. If you say it is waves, then it will be waves. The questions we ask of nature determine the answers it gives. Anybody who claims to understand why these things should be is lying. Henry Stapp must come close. He is a distinguished physicist at the University of California at Berkeley. He is convinced that quantum mechanics applies to large as well as small things. The world as a whole is just as weird as the inner workings of the atom. The truth of the world and ourselves is that the whole thing is a chaotic swirl of energy and particles. But we dont see it, because we make our own reality, our own truth, by only asking certain questions. The brick is a product of our mind; to all-seeing, non-human eyes, it is just a swirl of almost nothing. The observer, ... .

  • Rated by sarahintampa on Dec 15 2008, 8:12am

    The afterlife has long been an article of religious faith. And now scientists are finally putting the idea to the test.