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unremarkable, to put it diplomatically. it's not esoteric physics because it's not physics. i am not sure about esoteric because i didn't read enough. they look like essays for a high school class written by someone with a level of understanding of theoretical physics obtained from watching...

i disagree with this. a symbolic algebra program does not fall under umbrella of consciousness. it is nothing more than an algorithm (which can process infinities without understanding them, or understanding anything for that matter). i also submit to you that we do not know what is actually...

i'm sorry but this is wrong. material just means its state can be characterized entirely by all the physical variables of the system. platonic realm is obviously immaterial. nobody argues against that. interaction between the human brain (and mind) with the platonic realm of ideas is a...

i think there are some statements here that are simply false -- congenitally blind people don't necessarily form pictures (and if you believe v. noratuk's NDE account, they know the difference). others are pure speculation -- nobody knows if consciousness is completely immaterial (given that it...

even if one ignores the hard problem i think trying to assert presence of consciousness using functional criteria is highly problematic. since the emergent functionality is a predictable result (or one of a set of predictable results) that follow directly by a mappable process off of the...

i am interested in examples of two or more individuals (apparently) participating in the same reality during a simultaneous hallucinogenic 'trip', especially using DMT. if anyone would care to share his own such experience(s) or post links to some, i would appreciate that.

i agree with that. which is why i am interested in AWARE. but i am not satisfied with the brain based explanation of why so few recall. effect of the level of activity of functioning brain (in dream state, hypoxia, etc) on memory formation makes sense in mainstream brain based model. if the...

during dreams the brain is in a different state, so that would be consistent with the entire memory mechanism (formation, storage, recall, retrieval, recreation, what have you) being brain based and therefore any of these functions affected. it seems difficult to imagine why a temporarily...

my point is that after the brain returns to normal function the particular memory that is presumably formed during CA awareness is very rarely recalled unlike all the other prior memories that were formed during normally functional brain states which are usually recalled eventually in absence of...

that's a good point. i don't know how this reflects on memories that are ostensibly formed when the brain is completely shut down.

i did say i stipulated all memories are stored in same place. i don't think it is unreasonable. for consciousness -- either it is generated by the brain or it is not (the brain is a 'filter' or some other non-emergent mechanism), i don't see much argument against assuming it isn't both. i...

ok, they are sometimes "reported" after the trauma. i didn't say they aren't. i said there are too few of them. maybe they are not really "recalled" but confabulated. so there will be some qualification required no matter what term one uses. i really don't know what to make of...

agreed. but as for recall of memories of NDEs, when the brain was allegedly shut down -- those memories would not be stored in the brain. i would also stipulate that all memories are stored in the same "place", i.e., then no memories are stored in the brain. wherever memories are stored, i...

i don't see what that has to do with my point. i agree, we have no way to be certain what the person experienced, period. i am not conflating experience and memory. i understand the damage can occur afterward. it doesn't matter. memory of an experience is formed during the experience (that...

i don't understand this. NDEs are potentially such compelling evidence for survival in precisely the cases where one can claim the brain is completely shut down with no activity at all during the experience. but then to explain the majority of the cases where there is no memory of an...