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
If you treat the idea of (conscious) life after death as a scientific theory, I’m afraid it wouldn’t be a very good one. Good theories provide testable predictions. As far as I’m aware, no theory of an afterlife has ever made such a prediction that was experimentally verified. It it had, there would be headlines everywhere, a new Nobel Prize category, and probably every religion but one would close up over night.
Also, even if you experimentally confirm that NDEs are caused by psychological and physiological factors, and are not related to any sort of afterlife, that doesn’t prove there is no afterlife. It just proves you have no evidence and absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.