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  • Canaconda@lemmy.catoAsk Science@lemmy.world•Has the afterlife already been disproven?English
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    15 hours ago

    https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.popularmechanics.com%2Fscience%2Fa63831340%2Fdmt-near-death-experience%2F

    It’s inferred because we see it in animals, but have yet to scientifically observe it in humans for obvious ethical reasons.

    I get your point but do not necessarily agree that the body’s reluctance to die disproves an afterlife especially since if the afterlife is real that means the body is not the self.

    1. So you asked for evidence that the afterlife doesn’t exist. As such the mere assumption that the afterlife does exist is not a sufficient refutation of the evidence presented to you. I’m not disagreeing with your assessment, just pointing out that the way you’re conducting this discussion is inappropriate for a science based community.

    2. You actually don’t get my point. I’m not saying biology disproves the existence of the afterlife.

    I’m saying based on biological behaviour, whatever afterlife might exist, doesn’t interact with our biology in a way that our biology is aware of said afterlife’s existence.

    That’s why my caveat regarding NDE is that maybe the brain is uploading your spirit to heaven we just don’t have the neurological understanding to observe that currently.

  • Canaconda@lemmy.catoAsk Science@lemmy.world•Has the afterlife already been disproven?English
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    20 hours ago

    the afterlife concept doesn’t get the same treatment

    Once something becomes a shared experience, it ‘exists’, to a degree. Perhaps some people genuinely believe in a flying spaghetti monster, but it’s not comparable to the number of people who have the shared experience of xyz-religious-view.

    Why are ‘we’ asking, “Does God Exist?”. Rewind 2000 years and ask that question, and buddy would just point to Jupiter and say “there he fuckin is!” like you’re an idiot.

    We ask “does god exist”, because god must fundamentally supercede our ever evolving understanding. We have disproven the old gods by understanding the forces of nature that ancient “common sense” attributed as evidence for them. As our understanding grows so does our definition of what can constitute a god.

    We ask why does god exist because are at a point of knowledge where nothing is apparently god anymore.

    Proving negatives is certainly a more philosophical endeavor than a problem to solve with the scientific method. But that doesn’t mean we can’t apply proper scientific methodology to our philosophical discussions.

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  • Canaconda@lemmy.catoAsk Science@lemmy.world•Has the afterlife already been disproven?English
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    21 hours ago

    The body’s determination to avoid death indicates that if there is an afterlife, it does not have a physiological connection that our biological bodies can detect.

    Fight: The threat of death presents itself > Adrenalin and cortisol spike increasing heart rate and blood pressure to prepare for action.

    Flight: The threat cannot be fought. Noradrenaline spikes to engage blood flow in the muscles to assist with fleeling.

    Freeze: The threat has overwealmed us. The parasympathetic nervous system slows our heart rate, lowers blood pressure, and contracts blood flow in the extremities; as a last ditch effort to survive the traumatic and potentially fatal incoming damage.

    Near Death: Brain activity spikes. It increases production of the protein hamartin, which helps neurons survive oxygen and glucose deprivation. It releases DMT changing the activity in the frontal cortex and in some cases causing memories to be rapidly recalled.

    …

    The main caveat to this theory is if neuroscience discovers that our brains know something we don’t and are uploading/backing-up/doing-something we have no evidence for at this time.

  • Canaconda@lemmy.catoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Who else likes to mess with spammers?
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    2 days ago

    You purposely pick up and sit in silence? Not even a “Yo”, “Sup”, or “Aye”?

    Yup. AI spam calls generally hang up within 3 seconds if they don’t hear a voice on the other end. It’s when they detect a voice that the auto dialer connects you with the scammer.

    Meanwhile 99% of the people I want to talk to are contacts in my phone or businesses with caller id.

    I don’t answer calls from random numbers anyways so it’s largely irrelevant unless I’m expecting calls for some reason.

  • Canaconda@lemmy.catoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are the biases of Lemmy?
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    2 days ago

    At this point I’d believe AGI already exists and “AI Slop” is just a psy-opp.

    Like how do people reconcile recognizing how AI is negatively effecting society but denying that it could get exponentially more harmful?

    AI-agents (not AGI) will change cyberwarfare like nuclear weapons changed convetional warfare.

    Meanwhile true AGI almost certainly presents an existential threat to humanity. If for no other reason than our own laziness.