Re: Free speech absolutists weirdos

On Wed, 28 Aug 2024, JAB wrote:

On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 16:31:44 +0200, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
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Can I repost your original post

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Yes

Thank you. Let's see if it will spark some interesting discussion in alt.philosophy.

In terms of slicing and dicing, I guess the closest science can come

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In 1960s, Elmer Green, using hand-made biofeedback equipment
(portable), found a yogi that could control automatist functions
(heart rate, blood flow to peripheral parts, etc) via meditating to a
lower brain state (gamma, beta, alpha,  theta, delta)
https://www.elmergreenfoundation.org/
https://theconversation.com/alpha-beta-theta-what-are-brain-states-and-brain-waves-and-can-we-control-them-219236

That is true, and fairly trivial and well understood. At a much less impressive level, it is fairly easy to increaes blood flow to certain parts of the body with relaxation and visualization exercises.

pin point the area of the brain that lights up, and perhaps, artificially
stimulate the same areas, in the hope of inducing such an experience.

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If having a "life's review," this vivid visualization is happening on
a faster time scale.   Like humans 'operate' (process) at microsecond
level, and there at the femtosecond level, and as such, total recall
of seen events is not possible.  I would speculate a person would have
to be in a theta/delta state to experience a life review.
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once someone died while in a brain scanner
brain governing long term memory formation

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Would have to have a better O2 supply in that area.  When the heart
quits pumping, I would assume blow flow stops also.
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and I believe the external real world is all there is.

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Eastern religions have reincarnation beliefs, but for some
Native-Americans, they have their reincarnation beliefs.  Two
different cultures on different parts of the Earth with a similar
belief.  Maybe there's beef there, or just a fairy tale.

No beef for me I'm afraid, since by its very definition, science is not able to handle these types of questions.
So I am perfectly happy to remain agnostic. I do not, however, dogmatically rule out any possibility of something being "beyond". Perhaps my position might better be described as a combination of an agnostic and an apatheist.

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Native American Near-Death Experiences, Shamanism, and Religious
Revitalization Movements
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In some tribes with reincarnation beliefs, it was believed that souls
had to wait for a new life to be assigned to them. More often, they
were given the choice of whether or not to reincarnate and, if they so
chose, to which society and even which parents (Hultkrantz, 1953, pp.
421, 477; see also Mills & Slobodin, 1994)
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https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1125196/m2/1/high_res_d/34-3_3._Shushan.pdf
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Very interesting. Are you a scientist?