Does Consciousness Continue After We Die? - Jim Tucker - 4/26/23

[@crkanthus]

Thank you for the amazing session

[@Monkiger1]

Some people: do science and follow the results. Dr Tucker / UVA Ctr for perceptual studies: *does science and follows the results.* Some people: no no. Not like that.

[@vhawk1951kl]

What are you calling " science"?

[@spikeSpiegel114]

Excellent presentation.

[@corinnahubener8285]

Vielen Dank Dr. Jim Tucker!

[@lynahiacampbell8232]

I find this fascinating!!!

[@jeffreymihaly7523]

You seem to have already had spiritual experience Want to really blow your mind? Google and read this website: Ascension glossary It is a spiritual wiki Enjoy the rabbit hole

[@jb-xc4oh]

Its an intellectual circle jerk with no basis in fact. Kids remembering past lives, oh yeah that's real science. Go to the nearest cemetery and see how much consciousness you can find. What a bunch of absolute bunk.

[@andreialcaza]

Same

[@wattshumphrey8422]

Great topic and presentation - thanks! (complement from a MIT grad!) Assuming this data is as strong as the presentation made it sound, it appears to show that: Aspects of the consciousness through which we humans experience reality are not constrained by the space/time locality of classical and relativistic physics. How and why the children under study believe they were the passed individual is another question.

[@zakhust6840]

We can only speculate about the mechanisms of how these children acquired this information. - Chance? More often than not, statements are highly specific and often also include full names. This also allows us to rule out what sceptics such as Michael Shermer have termed as patternicity. - Fraud or socioculturally motivated? Those who investigated the claims seem to have reasonably ruled it out for almost all of their cases. (only 7 Moreover, the cross-cultural patterns argue against this interpretation, and also argues against cryptomnesia, paramnesia, etc, exposure to sources, etc. What we have left are three options: - The child is for some reason able to telepathically or clairvoyantly acquire this information from living people. - Some sort of discarnate personality has "posessed" the child. - Or, finally, that the previous personality has actually reincarnated into a new body. I don't find it grandiose to hypothesize, but it seems like we may not get a true answer going on here other than there's something going on here that is inconsistent with what we know about memory and, indeed, consciousness.

[@wattshumphrey8422]

@@zakhust6840 I suggest your list of possibilities is missing one related to my comment: a consciousness informing the child's memories, emotions, and psych is seeing across space/time. and... the child is identifying with the information, and believing it is the person from the past. Such an explanation, as fantastic as it sounds, could potentially explain why the phenomenon is not more common -- such information could be present in many people's dreams, but if the person does not identify with it, there likely wouldn't be such a profound impact, and any impact that did arise would be passed off as a bad dream.

[@zakhust6840]

@@wattshumphrey8422 Yes. The possibility you mention is probably the first one I cited: That the child is able to telepathically or clairvoyantly acquire this information. Though, we're still left to explain why the child identifies so much with this information and shows strong emotions in some cases. It's also hard because it's unlikely that these are cases of parental imposition of a personality of a child. I agree, it sounds fantastic, but these are the only few explanations that we have, and neither seem to fit our current paradigm of memory as a mere cerebral function. Perhaps we should start seeing memory as a "field" as biologist Rupert Sheldrake proposes? Best regards.

[@wattshumphrey8422]

@@zakhust6840 thanks for your thoughtful response. The child's identification with the information is not so problematic to me -- I believe that is what humans do: we have a drive to identify with a conceptual picture of the world, and most pointedly, our own place in it (our identity). As to why a child would identify with information like this (seems fantastic and a bit wild...): first, humans in general regularly identify with and believe all sorts of crazy things; second, a child who is otherwise normal (i.e. not driven to believe in distortions because of psychosis...) does not have an as rigidly developed and clung-to personality as an adult, and, accordingly, is more open to believe all sorts of things about their identity.

[@peterkay7458]

@@wattshumphrey8422 hey I worked with an MIT graduate and dam he was smart. so good school :) one of my professors won the nobel prize so my school is .....:P good too :D ....so as out there as your postulate is let me say this i was operated on at about 12-18 months to have bone marrow extracted, so no aneshtesia that caused me to have nightmares about my previous life at the age of 5-7 years as you logically suggest i just assumed crappy nightmares fast forward 1/2 a century and i had advanced tic douloreux and several more NDEs i woud see a flash of white and wake up 15 minutes or three hours later bascially i could no longer tell the difference between dreaming and sleep walking as a physics graduate in quantum semiconductor theory, it took me about 20 years to understand the physics of the above by watching 40 hours of Susskind, Penrose and every episode of World Science Festival anyway your comment really resonated so thanks :)

[@sbjrcourses7961]

Kudos to Caltech for having this talk! Unfortunately, many other universities and so called scientists wouldn't even entertain these ideas, in spite of some compelling research like that done at UVA.

[@jeffreymihaly7523]

Many universities and scientists are more interested in keeping their titles and finances than the actual pursuit of science, truth and discovery

[@LandauSiegel]

I would go so far as to say that academics are not in general motivated by the pursuit of truth so much as they are by the appearance of pursuing truth. There are notable exceptions, but the 'truth at any cost' mentality does not lend itself to institutionalisation.

[@DavidSmith-kf4ge]

So called scientists….??? They’re scientists, not so called. Just because they don’t confirm your narrative doesn’t mean you have to question their qualifications in their field

[@alanclw6024]

I thank you for allowing diverse views on different areas of science. It is quite courageous on your part considering the dogmatism, cancel culture, and lack of scientific method that is present in the comment section. It is saddening that reductionist materialists feels that their religion is being threatened and instead of acting like science proper, chooses to suppress different possibilities. Perhaps it is important to teach students on being open minded and not having "faith" in something. Like Max Planck said: "a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it".

[@spikeSpiegel114]

Yeah the materialist reductionists in the comments are pathetic, they do not even attempt to refute the material they just instantaneously dismiss it. In many ways, the so-called "Skeptics" (materialist-reductionist) are religious zealots no different than Christian fundamentalists.

[@Hedgewalkers]

I agree with you! I’m in the middle of my doctorate program with a dissertation on consciousness theory. I am surrounded my mainstream materialistic dogma. It makes any scientist interested in pursuing the true definition of scientific discovery’s life and interests very difficult! It’s as if they use their own bias as a religion and call it science. Science is a method of discovery, it realizes on ALL evidence and educated, non bias conjecture and is never a belief system (thus “I believe in science”). There are many of them, but the paradigm is changing! It may not be in our lifetime, but it is changing.

[@peterkay7458]

@@Hedgewalkers i got my physics degree specializing in semiconductor physics and we had no time to study this as the priority was to get a three stage amplifier to work with the given design criteria however, after i graduated my former professors were the most open minded people i have ever met. have you read up on the lithium isotope experiments with mice and roger penroses comments on the non locality of light and hameroffs anecdotal evidence under anesthesia and microtubules?

[@matthewparker-t2q]

@@Hedgewalkers There is NO life after death: Scientist insists afterlife is IMPOSSIBLE THERE is NO life after death, according to one well respected physicist who claims humanity has to abandon all fanciful beliefs and focus on what the laws of the universe dictate. Sean Carroll, a cosmologist and physics professor at the California Institute of Technology, believes he has put the debate surrounding the afterlife to bed after extensively studying the laws of physics. Dr Carroll states “the laws of physics underlying everyday life are completely understood” and everything happens within the realms of possibility. He says for there to be an afterlife, consciousness would need to be something that is entirely separated from our physical body - which it is not. Rather, consciousness at the very basic level is a series of atoms and electrons which essentially give us our mind. The laws of the universe do not allow these particles to operate after our physical demise, according to Dr Carroll He said: “Claims that some form of consciousness persists after our bodies die and decay into their constituent atoms face one huge, insuperable obstacle: the laws of physics underlying everyday life are completely understood, and there's no way within those laws to allow for the information stored in our brains to persist after we die.” For his evidence, Dr Carroll points to the Quantum Field Theory (QFT). In simple terms, the QFT is the belief there is one field for each type of particle. For example, all the photons in the universe are on one level, and all the electrons too have their own field, and for every other type of particle too. Dr Carroll explains if life continued in some capacity after death, tests on the quantum field would have revealed "spirit particles" and "spirit forces”. Dr Carroll writes in the Scientific American: “If it's really nothing but atoms and the known forces, there is clearly no way for the soul to survive death. “Believing in life after death, to put it mildly, requires physics beyond the Standard Model. “Most importantly, we need some way for that ‘new physics’ to interact with the atoms that we do have. “Within QFT, there can't be a new collection of ‘spirit particles’ and ‘spirit forces’ that interact with our regular atoms, because we would have detected them in existing experiments.” Once this is accepted by all scientists, Dr Carroll says, then they can truly begin to understand how the human mind operated. He said: “There's no reason to be agnostic about ideas that are dramatically incompatible with everything we know about modern science. “Once we get over any reluctance to face reality on this issue, we can get down to the much more interesting questions of how human beings and consciousness really work.”

[@matthewparker-t2q]

@@peterkay7458 There is NO life after death: Scientist insists afterlife is IMPOSSIBLE THERE is NO life after death, according to one well respected physicist who claims humanity has to abandon all fanciful beliefs and focus on what the laws of the universe dictate. Sean Carroll, a cosmologist and physics professor at the California Institute of Technology, believes he has put the debate surrounding the afterlife to bed after extensively studying the laws of physics. Dr Carroll states “the laws of physics underlying everyday life are completely understood” and everything happens within the realms of possibility. He says for there to be an afterlife, consciousness would need to be something that is entirely separated from our physical body - which it is not. Rather, consciousness at the very basic level is a series of atoms and electrons which essentially give us our mind. The laws of the universe do not allow these particles to operate after our physical demise, according to Dr Carroll He said: “Claims that some form of consciousness persists after our bodies die and decay into their constituent atoms face one huge, insuperable obstacle: the laws of physics underlying everyday life are completely understood, and there's no way within those laws to allow for the information stored in our brains to persist after we die.” For his evidence, Dr Carroll points to the Quantum Field Theory (QFT). In simple terms, the QFT is the belief there is one field for each type of particle. For example, all the photons in the universe are on one level, and all the electrons too have their own field, and for every other type of particle too. Dr Carroll explains if life continued in some capacity after death, tests on the quantum field would have revealed "spirit particles" and "spirit forces”. Dr Carroll writes in the Scientific American: “If it's really nothing but atoms and the known forces, there is clearly no way for the soul to survive death. “Believing in life after death, to put it mildly, requires physics beyond the Standard Model. “Most importantly, we need some way for that ‘new physics’ to interact with the atoms that we do have. “Within QFT, there can't be a new collection of ‘spirit particles’ and ‘spirit forces’ that interact with our regular atoms, because we would have detected them in existing experiments.” Once this is accepted by all scientists, Dr Carroll says, then they can truly begin to understand how the human mind operated. He said: “There's no reason to be agnostic about ideas that are dramatically incompatible with everything we know about modern science. “Once we get over any reluctance to face reality on this issue, we can get down to the much more interesting questions of how human beings and consciousness really work.”

[@The1JTA]

Well done. Thank you.

[@scott-qk8sm]

Well done, very interesting

[@peterdorn5799]

max plank a genius makes the most sense, consciousness is fundamental, matter is derivative, is the universe is infinite then we are

[@jeffreymihaly7523]

Why do previous death wounds manifests as birthmarks? Theory: They are registered in the astral / emotional body aka soul which transmigrates between physical bodies, it is the repository of our consciousness and holds the previous traumas both of etheric and energetic, as well as physical sense (which is merely a distinction of density- with physical being the more dense manifestation). As such, the etheric blueprint around which the new body is generated from in the womb contains these energetic imprints and the birthmarks are a kind if spiritual scar made manifest in the physical.

[@denofpigs2575]

Not that it means much without explicit positive confirmation, but I think you're bang-on completely correct.

[@vhawk1951kl]

They don't.

[@DavidSmith-kf4ge]

Gibberish….😂😂😂😂

[@peterkay7458]

Very well done :)

[@zeroonetime]

Souls are forever.

[@markwalker5948]

Very interesting. Thank you very much fellas.

[@krzemyslav]

It was the physicist John Wheeler who came up with the phrase "participatory universe".

[@leatui7]

The guy Dr. Tucker is taking about at the 1 hour point is John Wheeler. Great conversation, by the way!

[@UndeadLavender]

Bigger question is: Why do so few people remember past lives?

[@RealTrucker1776]

Explains NDE'S and Past Lives. "The Simulation Hypothesis: An MIT Computer Scientist Shows Why Al, Quantum Physics and Eastern Mystics All Agree We Are In a Video Game" Virk, Rizwan

[@jeffreymihaly7523]

Want to really blow your mind? Google and read this website: Ascension glossary It is a spiritual wiki Enjoy the rabbit hole

[@nalinikamal.meditationmast2673]

Talk starts at 4:56 More University need to encourage Researchers like Bruce Greyson and Jim Tucker who are blessing for the humanity. - #DrNewton K

[@Jeffreyk7]

There is a great story of a young boy, 9/11 and the reincarnation of a New York City fire lieutenant who perished in The North Tower. The full story as told by the boy's mother on (and off) a popular Reincarnation Forum starting in 2007 up to the present day. The books full title, Fire in the Soul: Reincarnation from Antietam to Ground Zero. The author is Jeffrey Keene a retired Asst. Fire Chief.

[@lynahiacampbell8232]

Wow ! 😮 Ima read up on it ! The show that Jim Tucker has on Netflix about kids who have been recarnated is absolutely fascinating and scary at the same time ! 👌

[@clown6507]

@@lynahiacampbell8232 You should do hypnotic regression therapy to see how many reincarnations you had!

[@vhawk1951kl]

You understand that stories are that and only that stories?

[@Jeffreyk7]

@@vhawk1951kl You understand that they are not just stories if you lived it? Read Fire in the Soul, ever word is true. Best, JK (Asst. Chief F.D. ret.)

[@leatui7]

@@vhawk1951kl What about the several thousand "stories" that have been factually verified, first by Dr. Iain Stevenson and later by Dr. Jim Tucker?

[@jeffreymihaly7523]

Why do those with violent past deaths tend to have higher incidence of past life memories? Theory: They have unfinished business, experiences, goals and life lessons.

[@somerandomvertebrate9262]

What is a "life lesson"? How could anything we learn here have any use over there?

[@NTRSN-Archive]

Let us hope

[@matthewparker-t2q]

There is NO life after death: Scientist insists afterlife is IMPOSSIBLE THERE is NO life after death, according to one well respected physicist who claims humanity has to abandon all fanciful beliefs and focus on what the laws of the universe dictate. Sean Carroll, a cosmologist and physics professor at the California Institute of Technology, believes he has put the debate surrounding the afterlife to bed after extensively studying the laws of physics. Dr Carroll states “the laws of physics underlying everyday life are completely understood” and everything happens within the realms of possibility. He says for there to be an afterlife, consciousness would need to be something that is entirely separated from our physical body - which it is not. Rather, consciousness at the very basic level is a series of atoms and electrons which essentially give us our mind. The laws of the universe do not allow these particles to operate after our physical demise, according to Dr Carroll He said: “Claims that some form of consciousness persists after our bodies die and decay into their constituent atoms face one huge, insuperable obstacle: the laws of physics underlying everyday life are completely understood, and there's no way within those laws to allow for the information stored in our brains to persist after we die.” For his evidence, Dr Carroll points to the Quantum Field Theory (QFT). In simple terms, the QFT is the belief there is one field for each type of particle. For example, all the photons in the universe are on one level, and all the electrons too have their own field, and for every other type of particle too. Dr Carroll explains if life continued in some capacity after death, tests on the quantum field would have revealed "spirit particles" and "spirit forces”. Dr Carroll writes in the Scientific American: “If it's really nothing but atoms and the known forces, there is clearly no way for the soul to survive death. “Believing in life after death, to put it mildly, requires physics beyond the Standard Model. “Most importantly, we need some way for that ‘new physics’ to interact with the atoms that we do have. “Within QFT, there can't be a new collection of ‘spirit particles’ and ‘spirit forces’ that interact with our regular atoms, because we would have detected them in existing experiments.” Once this is accepted by all scientists, Dr Carroll says, then they can truly begin to understand how the human mind operated. He said: “There's no reason to be agnostic about ideas that are dramatically incompatible with everything we know about modern science. “Once we get over any reluctance to face reality on this issue, we can get down to the much more interesting questions of how human beings and consciousness really work.”

[@Serasugee]

I have my own personal story of reincarnation. No one can tell me it's just a story if I experienced it myself. The things I spoke of in such detail as a 2 year old should not be things a child can recall, and it's not from a tv series and everything I watched was with my mother. Though, I don't remember so well. But I'm Christian, how does reincarnation work with that? Many say it's demons giving you false memories.. But do they have those powers in the Bible? Well, I'll continue to follow Christianity. If I'm wrong about following, it won't matter, I'll just be reincarnated.

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

How come these past lives don't include children who died from famine? Or maybe I've missed it. I've listened to this topic and read about it - no mention of victims of famine!! Very strange. Seems to be only a certain "kind" of life that reincarnates.

[@hunterchristian5927]

you mean a certain kind that can remember

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

@@hunterchristian5927I mean all other kinds except those of children who died from famines. I guess I wasn't clear enough. thanks

[@qidla]

First of all, I want to acknowledge the remarkable research and dedication that has gone into exploring the fascinating and complex topics of consciousness and reality. The work presented is thorough, thought-provoking, and demonstrates a clear commitment to understanding some of the most profound questions we face. The detailed case studies and interdisciplinary approach are especially commendable, as they show a genuine effort to bridge gaps between different fields of study and offer new insights into the nature of consciousness. However, it’s precisely because the research is so strong that the way quantum mechanics is invoked here feels particularly out of place. The leap from quantum observations to the conclusion that consciousness is the fundamental basis of reality detracts from the credibility of the entire discussion. Quantum mechanics, while undoubtedly intriguing and full of mysterious implications, does not provide the kind of support for these claims that is often suggested. The observer effect, which shows that measurement affects quantum states, is frequently misinterpreted or exaggerated to imply that consciousness is the creator of reality. This is a significant overreach and one that risks undermining the solid, evidence-based research that has been conducted. Max Planck’s often-quoted remarks about consciousness being fundamental are philosophical reflections rather than empirical conclusions, and they should be treated as such. Using these ideas to support speculative theories about consciousness continuing after death or being the fabric of reality stretches the science far beyond its intended limits. This approach, unfortunately, detracts from the otherwise impressive and rigorous work that has been presented. In sum, while the research into consciousness and reality is both valuable and intriguing, the attempt to tie it to quantum mechanics in this way weakens the overall argument. It’s essential to maintain the integrity of the scientific discussion by ensuring that claims are well-supported by the evidence at hand. There is so much potential in this field, and by keeping our explorations grounded in solid science, we can continue to make meaningful and credible advances.

[@rk_1383]

Listened to the full lecture nice it is. I read and saw in movie say Avatar, there are parallel universes and the consciousness may pass into another realm with the experience gained in one life instead of rebirth in the same universe, if at all this is true.

[@craigarrison9803]

Does consciousness exist before birth?

[@somerandomvertebrate9262]

Yes, but why do only 18-20 pecent have NDE's? What does it mean and what does it imply?

[@danonek07]

They all might have them, but only few Rember them

[@matthewparker-t2q]

@@danonek07 There is NO life after death: Scientist insists afterlife is IMPOSSIBLE THERE is NO life after death, according to one well respected physicist who claims humanity has to abandon all fanciful beliefs and focus on what the laws of the universe dictate. Sean Carroll, a cosmologist and physics professor at the California Institute of Technology, believes he has put the debate surrounding the afterlife to bed after extensively studying the laws of physics. Dr Carroll states “the laws of physics underlying everyday life are completely understood” and everything happens within the realms of possibility. He says for there to be an afterlife, consciousness would need to be something that is entirely separated from our physical body - which it is not. Rather, consciousness at the very basic level is a series of atoms and electrons which essentially give us our mind. The laws of the universe do not allow these particles to operate after our physical demise, according to Dr Carroll He said: “Claims that some form of consciousness persists after our bodies die and decay into their constituent atoms face one huge, insuperable obstacle: the laws of physics underlying everyday life are completely understood, and there's no way within those laws to allow for the information stored in our brains to persist after we die.” For his evidence, Dr Carroll points to the Quantum Field Theory (QFT). In simple terms, the QFT is the belief there is one field for each type of particle. For example, all the photons in the universe are on one level, and all the electrons too have their own field, and for every other type of particle too. Dr Carroll explains if life continued in some capacity after death, tests on the quantum field would have revealed "spirit particles" and "spirit forces”. Dr Carroll writes in the Scientific American: “If it's really nothing but atoms and the known forces, there is clearly no way for the soul to survive death. “Believing in life after death, to put it mildly, requires physics beyond the Standard Model. “Most importantly, we need some way for that ‘new physics’ to interact with the atoms that we do have. “Within QFT, there can't be a new collection of ‘spirit particles’ and ‘spirit forces’ that interact with our regular atoms, because we would have detected them in existing experiments.” Once this is accepted by all scientists, Dr Carroll says, then they can truly begin to understand how the human mind operated. He said: “There's no reason to be agnostic about ideas that are dramatically incompatible with everything we know about modern science. “Once we get over any reluctance to face reality on this issue, we can get down to the much more interesting questions of how human beings and consciousness really work.”

[@waedjradi]

Same questions. Over and over.

[@mcawesomeytyo3312]

This is not to take away from Einstein or his achievements but I lways found that Max Planck is the greatest scientist of all time especially from his quote that mind is the matrix of all matter.

[@vpkumar1950]

Why is it that most cases of rebirth are usually in or in nearby places. Is it because after death the soul doesn't travel very far , but enters into a body not very far from the place of death.

[@gobblelevclass3nuclearsubm393]

the soul is so traumatised by the death ? thesoul was born in a low tech time ?

[@sergeyt2947]

Buddha told 2500 years ago the details of that mechanism that drives rebirth.

[@Jack-ur4in]

It seems to me that quite a number of the worlds greatest thinkers all down the centuries are in agreement that consciousness is the source of everything. It is primary and fundamental. And evidence continues to mount that this is very likely the case.🤓

[@jeffreymihaly7523]

Why do some children have to be in relaxed states in order to have access to these memories? Theory: increase theta brainwaves - see Robert Munroe research - Astral projection

[@Seeker_of_sense]

Interesting, but this was more about past life memories than whether consciousness continues.

[@ML-xx5mj]

5 minutes 20 seconds and they tell you that they try to give you answers about life after death. Answers, thats when I usually go to the next Google search, but now I am going to continue with this at last for few minutes more. (We all know we don’t have the answers, we just make predictions based on what we believe).

[@matthewparker-t2q]

Near death experiences and out of body experiences are nothing more than dying brain cells firing randomly and going haywire as they start to die. It takes many hours, if not days for every brain cell to completely die, for every neuron to stop firing and for electrical activity deep inside the brain to completely stop. Some near death experiences and out of body experiences conflict each other, they can't all be right but they can all be wrong. The laws of physics do not allow there to be an afterlife. There are other explanations for NDEs and OBEs, due to the lack of oxygen getting to the brain, these brain cells spontaneously fire and are a result of the chemicals in the brain. Quantum field theory says that there is one field for every type of particle. They can not be any spirit particles or spirit forces that can interact with are regular atoms because we would of detected them in existing experiments. Any new type of particle or force that we have not yet detected would: 1) Be too weakly interacting, 2) Be too heavy to create, 3) be too short lived to detect or 4) Interacting over too short ranges. In any case the new type of particle or force would not be relevant to what the atoms are doing in your brain and body. Your soul is just a certain pattern of arrangement of protons, neutrons and electrons interacting with each other via electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force, the weak nuclear force and gravity which essentially gives us our spirit. Consciousness is a series of atoms and electrons which essentially gives us our mind. There is no way for the information stored in your brain to persist after you die and there is clearly no way for the soul to survive death. Energy is absolutely conserved upon death. Unfortunately conversion to spiritual of conscious energy is not one of them and your consciousness and spirit is not conserved in any way. The electrical energy of your brain simply ceases to be and will change form to a higher entropy which is a more disordered form of energy namely heat. This heat energy is not your spirit or consciousness, it is just the most disordered form of energy, thus all energy will eventually be converted into heat energy. I have 3 videos here explaining it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3-ropKknLVsgZY, kzbin.info/www/bejne/sIKbp56HZb-geq8 and kzbin.info/www/bejne/oIasm3ekmLCNmK8

[@davidbible1469]

When did this consciousness trait arise in the evolution of mammals, or just hominids? Or early Homo sapiens. The oldest known Homo sapiens fossil is over 300,000 years old. Just asking. Seems important.

[@kellykwongali]

Mr. Tucker, i would have interesting input. I was technically and medically dead for consecutive days twice verified by the City in 2012. I would have to argue that consciousness absolutely continues after thay experience. (The City could verify that I was medically dead. LAPD could verify that I woke up days later.) (I have many people impersonating me, some lookalikes, please dont meet with me in person. The imposters are of bad ethos and have murdered people in the past while pretending to be me. I am a kidnappee and most of these girls are associated with the network of kidnappers, leaving room open for serious crime(s).)

[@hdbodt]

I would like to believe that there is such a thing as reincarnation. But how do you explain population growth? The world population is growing at 10 000 people per hour. Where did they all come from? Sorry for my English.

[@albertcadgame8314]

next time in your video, always do all introduction first - you and all speakers before you go any further PLUS address people with their qualification, eg. Dr (doctor) Jim Tucker and not Jim Tucker only.

[@ricardovanheumen303]

Damm.. get to the point.. 20 minutes in and we are stil in introductions

[@ML-xx5mj]

6.40 hurry up if he’s not God..🙄

[@b.7944]

I used to believe the reincarnation but when you think carefully there are some major problems in Stevenson's research. For example, the wounds seen in the next life body make all reincarnation theory much weaker not stronger. Let's say you believe the soul is given a new chance with reincarnation, but on the contrary, it seems "the soul" is punished in the "new body" with physical problems carried from the previous life. Or simply reincarnation is not true, It is just Stevenson arrived at the scene where the link had already been established by the local people because of these wounds in the children. It feels like Stevenson is just there to confirm something already accepted in the local society.

[@qidla]

I respect your perspective, but I disagree. Dr. Stevenson's methods were thorough and focused on gathering detailed, verifiable data that often went beyond what was 'accepted' by local societies. The presence of wounds or birthmarks in the new body, which matched injuries from the previous life, actually strengthens the case for reincarnation rather than weakening it. These specific physical correlations were independently documented and often unknown to the families involved until Dr. Stevenson investigated them. His approach was scientific and involved rigorous checks to avoid bias, including ensuring the information came from the child before it could be influenced by others. While reincarnation remains a controversial topic, Stevenson's work set a high standard for this type of research, far beyond simply confirming local beliefs.

[@DavidSmith-kf4ge]

I’m not convinced to be honest. Every time I listen to presentations like this I just get presented with anecdotal evidence which means nothing really and certainly can’t be qualified as scientific. I had what’s called a NDE myself but caused through overwork and little sleep. Had the same experiences listed multiple times but I see it for what it is. A biological reaction to physical trauma. Nothing more, nothing less.

[@LinkedifyAccounts]

What kind of evidence are we ro expect? Someone, coming back from the dead - death is a natural cycle of life, we can only imagine The, fact there is 2000+ cases with verifiable claims, and not to mention veriditical evidence which has a 90% confirmation rate is extremelt significant ans 'doesn't mean nothing' As much you think these people are deluding themselves, you havw, been also been conditioned

[@gatorwing6231]

Drugs as anesthesia's do marvelous things to the brain. Even the human body produces chemicals to alter ones mood. Unfortunately when you are dead all the electrical activity in the brain stops. Has anyone weighed a "SOUL". I don't think so Olie 🤣👀.

[@sampoornamkannan]

Death is too insignificant a blip in Consciousness.First give up a western notion of Consciousness and reset your notion about it.

[@jhungallon8192]

Jesus mention this, he said “born again”

[@osogrande4999]

You literally don’t read your own book you Christians do you. He didn’t say that phrase (I don’t believe anything the bible says about anything but the phrase you think you mean, he didn’t say). He said born again in the context of and was referring to being “baptised” by “water and spirit”. Nothing about being born into a physical body again. That aside, I have no problem with Jim Tuckers data and where it points. It doesn’t however point to christian religious dogma.

[@MoreFootWork]

10:45 sound like ayahuasca

[@dunnbradstreet4106]

5-meoDMT is worth looking into.

[@vhawk1951kl]

No,*of course( not, for want of one to know because consciousness me-a-n-s * with_ knowledge and without one to know or experience, there can be no knowledge. That is axiomatic

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

Any past lives of abortion deaths? If they can remember what happened between lives then how about remembering being in the womb and being killed? Just sayin'

[@trust.no_1]

I think this consciousness we have here ends here. NDE happens bc death was just brief. But when death persists we eventually lose this consciousness. We are energy that transforms from one type to another. There's a universe after this life and we must get excited to new different experience after this life. That said why want to reincarnate?

[@saliksayyar9793]

What is consciousness? Without answering that, it is all speculation. India? It seems cultural, as Hinduism and related belief system teach previous lives and reincarnation. That is why the extreme bias towards reincarnation religions. The second issue is just ascertainment bias. Conveniently an extra , as a well known actor would have a well known bio. Ryan’s family probably had you fooled. So the floating ‘consciousness’ is material as its experiences like a person would, limited by walls and the operating table. The picture of the person is from the top, why not from below or unusual perspectives that one does not visualize such as internal organs, microscopic or angles of perception. Strange it is the perspective of a material person with all the limitations of forward vision and no access to parts of the body not visualized from anterior vision. Unnatural deaths: what about millions and millions of very young soldiers killed in wars across centuries? Those should be highly represented. Many children have invisible friends, this sounds like a similar phenomenon. Hanging around is also taught in Hindu type religions. The developmental disorders suggest associated seizure type possibility. Did Max Planck know what is consciousness. If not, then he made a belief statement.

[@alanclw6024]

Your reasoning is riddled with the "All swans are white" fallacy.

[@saliksayyar9793]

@@alanclw6024 That is just an assertion.

[@spikeSpiegel114]

Your comment barely makes any sense. What are you even trying to say?

[@j-psavoie8173]

You solved everything from the comfort of your armchair. Impressive!

[@LandauSiegel]

But a true assertion. If it is assumed that all swans are white, then anything that is apparently a swan and another colour must be explained away as a non-swan. Everything you say is based on the assumption that reincarnation is impossible, and thus you conclude that any evidence apparently in favour of reincarnation has been misconstrued.

[@-a-l-t-]

😂😂🤣

[@ML-xx5mj]

Okay, I’m done with this salad.

[@Dr_LK]

What a load of BS... out of so many billions of people, some said random statements that correlate with reality (past lives of other people) = coincidence.

[@alanclw6024]

It seems that your religious belief is being attacked fornyou to respond so emotionally without a hint of sientific integrity. Try to better your statements so there can actually be a reply.

[@Dr_LK]

@@alanclw6024 lol I’m definitely not religious, I just believe in science.

[@alanclw6024]

@@Dr_LK There is no such thing as believing in science. Science is a principle, a methodology. Once you believe in someone, it becomes faith, aka a religion. Your logic is not based on science. It is purely zealotry in apriory conclusions.

[@pythIV]

@@Dr_LK do your homework and try again.Random statements is the only thing that is not occuring in such cases(thousand of cases).the sad thing is you express opinions without even having the slightest idea on the topic

[@sisekzjedenactedimenze]

​@@Dr_LKpeople who say that they "believe" in science miss the point of what science is. Conflating science with materialist nihilism and agnostic atheist belief system is a cultural artifact. Science is a method, not a set of particular beliefs or metaphysical assumptions

[@TheDanEdwards]

Humans so desperately do not want to accept that death is the end that we've invented ideas like the _soul_ to get around the hard meaning of death. I hope that scientists don't succumb to reifying these escapist ideas.

[@alanclw6024]

Science is not Scientism. Science is the discovery of evidence and interpreting them to better understa d the world. People with your mindset are the successors of the dogmatism that have prevented science from moving forward. Instead of analysing the data and providing logical alternatives, you resort to mockery and cancel culture. The world of science would be better without the peanut gallery you represent.

[@pythIV]

You are not really into philosophy or the hard problem of consciousness are you?humans so desperately think they know everything that they just cannot accept whatever does not suit their worldview

[@spikeSpiegel114]

All you're doing is whining -- Feel free to actually refute/debunk the material. Otherwise shut your yapper.

[@zakhust6840]

The idea that we, for some reason, cease to exist after we die because death is "the end" is an assumption which lacks empirical support. We have no reason to default consciousness to the brain and therefore no reason to think it ceases upon death.

[@lynahiacampbell8232]

But is the end tho ? Look at Jesus ! He came back to life !

[@Grinsekatze113]

So this is where our hard-earned tax dollars go, ye? Well, looks like I need to write a letter to my representatives -.-

[@cheriemonami]

Cal Tech is privately funded.

[@saliksayyar9793]

@@cheriemonami except it is heavily funded by the Federal dollars

[@cheriemonami]

@@saliksayyar9793 Is it?

[@saliksayyar9793]

@@cheriemonami all universities

[@saliksayyar9793]

@@cheriemonami researchadministration.caltech.edu/documents/16255/ora_fy2019_annual_report_final.pdf

[@adelvoid1530]

this is embarrassing to watch.

[@alanclw6024]

Thank you for proving him wrong @57.40

[@lynahiacampbell8232]

Why ?

[@krzemyslav]

Embarrassment is in the eye of the beholder.

[@jeffreymihaly7523]

Cause he's a dumb materialist who is obsessed with death, pain and soul bondage and the idea of actual goodness, peace and liberation in this universe is so painful as to be repulsive to his ego which is polarized toward demonic ideation

[@peterkay7458]

thats what the depends are for

[@vhawk1951kl]

*Whose* conaciousness Of* what?

[@vhawk1951kl]

No, because that is what death means. Consciousness means(translated from its Latin roots) with_knowledge, and know ledge presupposes both a knower(one that knows) or experiences and an experiencing mechanism, so if a man(human being) is a receiver like a dio or a television, he will receive nothing when switched of or dead.

[@faithbad666]

No

[@matthewparker-t2q]

Near death experiences and out of body experiences are nothing more than dying brain cells firing randomly and going haywire as they start to die. It takes many hours, if not days for every brain cell to completely die, for every neuron to stop firing and for electrical activity deep inside the brain to completely stop. Some near death experiences and out of body experiences conflict each other, they can't all be right but they can all be wrong. The laws of physics do not allow there to be an afterlife. There are other explanations for NDEs and OBEs, due to the lack of oxygen getting to the brain, these brain cells spontaneously fire and are a result of the chemicals in the brain. Quantum field theory says that there is one field for every type of particle. They can not be any spirit particles or spirit forces that can interact with are regular atoms because we would of detected them in existing experiments. Any new type of particle or force that we have not yet detected would: 1) Be too weakly interacting, 2) Be too heavy to create, 3) be too short lived to detect or 4) Interacting over too short ranges. In any case the new type of particle or force would not be relevant to what the atoms are doing in your brain and body. Your soul is just a certain pattern of arrangement of protons, neutrons and electrons interacting with each other via electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force, the weak nuclear force and gravity which essentially gives us our spirit. Consciousness is a series of atoms and electrons which essentially gives us our mind. There is no way for the information stored in your brain to persist after you die and there is clearly no way for the soul to survive death. Energy is absolutely conserved upon death. Unfortunately conversion to spiritual of conscious energy is not one of them and your consciousness and spirit is not conserved in any way. The electrical energy of your brain simply ceases to be and will change form to a higher entropy which is a more disordered form of energy namely heat. This heat energy is not your spirit or consciousness, it is just the most disordered form of energy, thus all energy will eventually be converted into heat energy. I have 3 videos here explaining it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3-ropKknLVsgZY, kzbin.info/www/bejne/sIKbp56HZb-geq8 and kzbin.info/www/bejne/oIasm3ekmLCNmK8

[@infiniteworfare5089]

i think our consciousness/soul does exist after death. our brain and body is made up of many cells and i think theres a cell in the brain which is responsible for holding consciousness. you can lose/alter many cells in the brain and still remain the same person except it just modifies your experience. it may even be possible that skin cells are conscious and carry soul. after death, it seems very likely that reincarnation occur as the cells in the brain breaks down and eventually finds a new host. i dont know what life as a cell is like, but to reach an organism that can percieve the environment does sound like it would take long considering that a cubic meter of air alone is composed on millions of bacteria