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[Nocty]

Well well, this is a very interesting interview.

Will post it at the bottom as a title this click-baity needs a bit of preamble I would say. The credentials of this doctor are excellent, Dr. Tara Swart;

• Cambridge neuroscientist
• Medical doctor specialized in psychiatry
• Has literally "locked people up" for psychotic episodes

She's the last person you'd expect to believe in signs from the dead, but here we are. It's a long video, but it's absolutely fascinating. At first when she began talking about this, I thought bullshit immediately, but then the evidence started rolling on the longer the video went along.

 

[DreamcastSkies]

For people who believe in "souls" (to varying degrees) if this is true, any chance the soul is gone and this is just some leftover activity?

 

[12Goblins]

This lady is a bullshit artist- Touts herself as MIT lecturer all the time but teaches business leadership.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

I do believe that there is a power of something after death, I don't go to church, but I do believe that there is a force beyond human knowledge.

 

[Windle Poons]

Starting your thumbnail sentence with a lower-case letter I is an instant no from me - can't even get the basics right.

 

[Embearded]

Kojima is right once again.

I'll see you boys on the beach.

 

[JimmyRustler]

I listened to that podcast a few days ago. It was quite interesting indeed.
And before you claim this stuff to be stupid... Carl Jung is one of the best know psychiatrists ever and he also had some wild views of the afterlife. Faszinating stuff.

 

[IlGialloMondadori]

Well well, this is a very interesting interview.

Will post it at the bottom as a title this click-baity needs a bit of preamble I would say. The credentials of this doctor are excellent, Dr. Tara Swart;

• Cambridge neuroscientist
• Medical doctor specialized in psychiatry
• Has literally "locked people up" for psychotic episodes

She's the last person you'd expect to believe in signs from the dead, but here we are. It's a long video, but it's absolutely fascinating. At first when she began talking about this, I thought bullshit immediately, but then the evidence started rolling on the longer the video went along.

I am going to listen to this, but it's a huge mistake to assume because someone has an education and demonstrated intelligence in certain fields or applications that they can't be batshit insane or stupid as fuck in other ways. Humans have constant examples of this, all the time, every day, and yet we still fall for this trap.

Also, Bartlett is full of shit. CEO my ass.

Anyway, as someone who considers themselves spiritual, I'll listen to it. After 15 minutes, "I was experiencing symptoms common with psychosis or schizophrenia, but because I'm a psychologist, I know better and it was really my dead husband communicating," is pretty hard to take seriously. "Our disconnection with nature compared with our ancestors is why we're so unhappy," again, like based on what? What do you mean disconnected with nature? How do you know our ancestors felt any different? I think many of them probably felt despair, fear, depression, and lived short lives.

"Whatever we've been doing until now certainly hasn't been working." What does this even mean? Hasn't been working how? For who? You're treating the entire world as a monoculture and assuming they all feel the same as you do.

She talks a lot of shit with a lot of authority and certainty.

I am just inherently skeptical of people who are trying to sell.

 

[Wildebeest]

I already see the face of that guy and I know I'm going to be subjected to hours worth of annoying nonsense with a confidence scam buried in it if I click.

 

[Hudo]

This lady is a bullshit artist- Touts herself as MIT lecturer all the time but teaches business leadership.

So kinda like a female Lex Fridman?

 

[Dacvak]

I'm 45 minutes into this and there's no evidence or really anything of substance yet. Does it become more convincing later?

 

[Trilobit]

I really enjoyed this movie. Had a great vibe to it:

 

[ClanOfNone]

Wasn't there a book/movie where they proved there was "life after death" via some new technology and like 20% of the population immediately commits suicide?

lmao, there it is right above me!

 

[Toots]

I wouldn't dare tell my opinion on this video, but at least i learned that you actually find science and don't build it upon empirical observation as i always thought.
Also some part of this science laying on the ground (maybe half i don't really know) , was put there by someone that never meant for us to find it.
One could argue those two things are actually more groundbreaking than life after death.

 

[Solarstrike]

If humans are a form of information and information cannot theoretically be destroyed, then humans technically live forever as probably with all life. Just in another phase, plane, level, existence or however it should be called. Just because human eyes cannot see things or otherwise technologies detect them, doesn't mean those things do not exist. That said, with the amount of galaxies and the planets within them, it raises the possibility that your worst nightmares (or good dreams) are in fact true. If you know anything about quantum states which I have no idea about, then you would already know that cats understand all of this already.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

If humans are a form of information and information cannot theoretically be destroyed, then humans technically live forever as probably with all life.

That's not what that means, it just means you can run the quantum process backwards to get whatever it is to the previous state, it doesn't mean that that state persists forever; it's like how we're all made out of "star stuff", that doesn't mean we're literally stars, just that it's the same base components.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

That said, with the amount of galaxies and the planets within them, it raise the possibility that your worst nightmares (or even dreams) are in fact true.

Fuck...

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

The best discovery is Russia's, the cancer vaccine, and I hope releases it, and the eradication of the Down syndrome gene, which he did in Japan. Let them do it, and I don't give a damn what another country says.

 

[IlGialloMondadori]

The best discovery is Russia's, the cancer vaccine, and I hope releases it, and the eradication of the Down syndrome gene, which he did in Japan. Let them do it, and I don't give a damn what another country says.

I wouldn't dare tell my opinion on this video, but at least i learned that you actually find science and don't build it upon empirical observation as i always thought.
Also some part of this science laying on the ground (maybe half i don't really know) , was put there by someone that never meant for us to find it.
One could argue those two things are actually more groundbreaking than life after death.

 

[SupaComputa]

Ah yes, the neverending vaporscience carrousel.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Redirect Notice

Expected timeline for the mRNA cancer vaccine launch in Russia | News | GxP News

Regulators plan to approve a strategy for the development and application of a Russian mRNA vaccine for the treatment of cancer in the coming months. The. News GxP News.

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I'm glad that Russia and Japan is so advanced.

Japanese scientists have developed a method for removing the chromosome associated with Down syndrome - MedTour

Down syndrome is the most common chromosomal abnormality caused by the presence of an extra copy of chromosome 21 (trisomy 21). This genetic disorder leads…

medtour.help

 

[DKehoe]

Not sure that Diary of a CEO is where I'd be looking for these kinds of developments.

 

[sono]

Question is what.is the human definition of death.

If you make it when all brain activity ceases rather than when heart stops..

 

[killatopak]

I've read some research papers that have documented near-death experiences. And by near death it means the patient was clinically dead with no brain activity but was later revived. Their experiences almost always match and there were plenty of instances of them seeing stuff like objects above a closet that they couldn't physically see with their bodies while their ghostly apparition float around near their physical bodies in an operating room.

Near-death experiences often occur in association with cardiac arrest.5 Prior studies found that 10–20 seconds following cardiac arrest, electroencephalogram measurements generally find no significant measureable brain cortical electrical activity.6 A prolonged, detailed, lucid experience following cardiac arrest should not be possible, yet this is reported in many NDEs. This is especially notable given the prolonged period of amnesia that typically precedes and follows recovery from cardiac arrest.7

The OP posts brain activity though so are they really dead?

 

[Toots]

I don't know dude the way the clickbait thumbnail framed the woman discovery seemed so dumb i couldn't help myself

 

[Queso de Grande]

 

[Rentahamster]

When asked about if she's experiencing confirmation bias, she just leans into it.

Hm, okay. Not convinced.

 

[nkarafo]

Most people really want to exist forever in some form, because non-existence sounds scary and makes no sense. That's why you see even intellectuals believing in bullshit that support this idea. This is how religions were born.

Yeah, maybe there is some brain activity after death. But let's not kid ourselves, please. We didn't exist before we were born and we won't exist after we die. It sucks but at least we won't suffer any inconvenience.

 

[dem]

30 minutes in and this is actually retarded

 

[Mistake]

We already know the brain can still function up unto a point from blood loss. We figured that out in the middle ages. But it's also common sense that even if you could revive a brain past this point, there's so much damage the person is gone anyway, despite if you get some ticks. She seems like a wack job. The only exception to these rules are comas I guess, where some people just wake up unexpectedly

 

[ForAcademicPurposes]

We have had the technology.

 

[calistan]

Wasn't there a book/movie where they proved there was "life after death" via some new technology and like 20% of the population immediately commits suicide?

lmao, there it is right above me!

There's a Chuck Palahniuk short story where they discover that after death you emigrate to an eternal party on Venus, but only if there isn't a vacant body for your soul to inhabit on Earth. Every time a baby is born, somebody gets transported back home.

So governments start distributing suicide kits, reluctant countries are nuked, and death squads roam the streets to ensure nobody misses out.

 

[GermanZepp]

For those interested in the topic here's a video I found some while ago.

I personally think that maybe there's more to death that we know. But I would like to experience some stuff first hand. It's hard to believe. You end up trusting other person judgment as true.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Mankind came from apes and got smart, than crash and die.

 

[niilokin]

Personally I find the concept of "afterlife" and consciousness persisting after death science fiction, but I do believe in "soul" although as an abstract essence that is part of an infinite and unchanging side of nature (as Plato described that soul is never born but is eternal, pre-existing). However if consciousness does persist after death, wouldn't it mean that our brains are just mediums of a signal and the source exists elsewhere? When I hear about people being dead but still having dream like experiences, I tend to think the dream is the fraction of a second brain juice trip that just feels like everlasting, just like in dreams we lose concept of time outside our heads.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

This lady is a bullshit artist- Touts herself as MIT lecturer all the time but teaches business leadership.

The old Lex Friedman MIT grift. In his case, he never attended MIT, and only guest lectured there. Like doing a TEDx talk where they're lax about who can do one.

 

[Hudo]

Mankind came from apes and got smart, than crash and die.

Everything went downhill after discovering how to make fire.