Fnord wrote:
Deltaville wrote:
No. Here's why ...
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The team of scientists led by Dr Berthold Ackermann, has monitored the operations and have compiled the testimonies of the subjects. Although there are some slight variations from one individual to another, all of the subjects have some memories of their period of clinical death. and a vast majority of them described some very similar sensations.
That part should read, "...
all of the subjects reported similar experiences that they claimed had occurred during their period of clinical death." There is no way to verify the times of their alleged experiences - there is no time index associated with their alleged experiences. Those memories could have been formed at any time during the procedure, and their similarities could be the result of similarities between human brains.
Of course, this being a satirical article simply does away with any credibility it may have had. Equally unsurprising are the religionists' reactions to this story - their acceptance of it as fact when the disclaimer states otherwise.
Amusing, though.
Biological death is irreversible.Which means it is physically impossible for a biologically dead person to be resurrected and describe what it's like. Nor do we have the technology yet to actually read someone's mind.....But that is likely to change. See the 1983 movie
Brainstorm. And this is why I am a skeptic about free will:
The scientific evidence shows that brains do indeed make minds and brains are physical entities. When physical constraints are applied to the brain in the form of pyschoactive drugs(which are almost always amines with the notable exceptions of ethanol and thujone), it causes behavior changes that are often highly predictable.
And certain drugs, like PCP, often cause intoxicated subjects to suffer a total loss of impulse control and render them unable to distinguish fantasy from reality! The pharmacology of PCP has been extensively studied and you'd be shocked at what this drug has made people do.
02 Feb 2016, 11:30 pm
