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Post by iamspartacus on Feb 14, 2006 4:26:56 GMT -4
This is obviously a job for Mythbusters. They could flatline Jamie Hyneman and hide his beret somewhere in the shop so it can only be seen from way up near the ceiling. They could then revive him and ask him what he saw. Of course they would have to repeat this many times for it to be a proper experiment.
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Post by echnaton on Feb 17, 2006 15:17:30 GMT -4
Great idea! It lacks one essential ingredient though, something to blow up or destroy.
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lonewulf
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Post by lonewulf on Apr 10, 2006 14:08:34 GMT -4
This is obviously a job for Mythbusters. They could flatline Jamie Hyneman and hide his beret somewhere in the shop so it can only be seen from way up near the ceiling. They could then revive him and ask him what he saw. Of course they would have to repeat this many times for it to be a proper experiment. Can't we use someone that we'd want to see flatlined? Not to be cruel or anything, but might as well involve someone we don't like :3
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Jason
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Post by Jason on May 2, 2006 11:55:24 GMT -4
The problem with NDEs is that they are eye-witness testimony. Either you believe what the witness has said based on your judgement of their character or you don't. If you're pre-disposed to not believe in the survival of the spirit after death then you will likely believe other explanations for whatever the person says they experienced (it was the effect of oxygen deprivation on the brain, you heard sounds that you constructed a mental picture from, etc). Performing experiments like hiding objects around the operating theater doesn't prove that someone didn't exit their body and view the room - it seems likely that they would be most interested in watching themselves and the efforts to revive them rather than looking around the room. The failure of Houdini's famous pact with his wife to attempt to deliver a coded message from beyond the grave doesn't prove that Houdini didn't survive as a spirit, merely that the "mediums" his wife worked with were unable to contact him.
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Post by Al Johnston on May 2, 2006 18:37:30 GMT -4
You can accept the eyewitness account without having to accept the eyewitnesses explanation: almost by definition, if someone is having an NDE, their brain is not operating in a "normal" fashion.
The various experiments into the matter are not perfect, and cannot prove a negative proposition in any event. They are at least an attempt to gather some data.
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Post by 3onthetree on May 3, 2006 5:24:33 GMT -4
I say meat for worms. Though I do wonder, I met an old lady from Malta once which is a long way from Australia and for some strange reason we knew each other's faces and both of us remarked about it. So I reckon I was obviously an ace pilot in the RAF stationed in Malta during ww2 in one of my many heroic pre lives. ;D
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