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Has the afterlife already been disproven? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago by QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works to c/askscience@lemmy.world

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Sort of a follow up to my topic asking why NDE Research wasn't taken seriously. Which btw I got great replies to.

I was expecting the usual "Oh near death isn't REALLY death." And "Because its bullshit." Strawman non answers

But instead I got people interfacing with the data and pointing out that an afterlife was no the direction the data headed outside of spirituality circles that did not interpret the data correctly to begin with.

So looking at how everything to do with conciousness leads to the brain and how we have discovered that a sense of self separate from the body is illusionary.

I have to ask

Is it an open secret that the afterlife is debunked?

I can find tons of arguments and information against it and the only thing supporting basically going "Well the brain is your conciousness but no one knows for sure."

So a "I'm not saying no, but I sure as hell am not saying yes." Being the strongest yes isn't exactly reassuring. It makes me think the "I don't know" is actually a "no" trying to be polite

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[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I will admit I am one of the crazy few rooting for Orch OR

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I mean, it hasn't even been a year since we discovered microtubules could sustain quantum superposition.

That's what I'm talking about, shit is moving so fast and it's kind of crazy Penrose is alive to see it.

Einstein didn't get to live to see Penrose prove him right.

It blows my mind still every time I see a new video of him giving a presentation. The fact that he's still alive and kicking, and just the gains that we've made over his lifetime.

There's not many things to be optimistic about these days, so I take it when I can get it.