The Science of Past Lives | Sci Guys Podcast

[@SciGuys]

Hi everyone! There seems to be an audio/video sync issue that starts at around 12 minutes into the episode. If this is too distracting for you, we've uploaded a fixed version of the episode to watch here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hGevqJKIp9SDnNE

[@AnimilesYT]

I should read before I do something xD I installed an extension to delay the audio by 2100ms so it is mostly synced up. But watching the fixed version is better than any kind of synchronization bodge that only half works

[@darasimpson1539]

Hypothesis: the audio sync issue was actually just one of Corry's past selves trying to intercept. You cannot prove this wrong.

[@darasimpson1539]

@James Palmer2 fair play

[@pokemonfanthings4444]

You can’t prove it right either, the burden of truth is on you. I know this is a joke just pointing it out since people seem to forget this often

[@radirpok99]

When I first met my new GP when I moved into my current city, she told me I'm trans because I was a man in my previous life and she can help me move through, and she handed me her contact info to her religious group. I visited her because I had a cold and wanted a prescription for cold syrup.

[@sheenasapunkrocker]

I’m so thankful for Luke’s contribution to this episode.

[@Susan-jr3ld]

An anecdote that proves absolutely nothing but is interesting none the less. When my son was 3ish 4ish, we were driving somewhere and my son pointed the sky and said, "Sixsun mommy, sixsun!" It was a sunny day. there was a crow in the sky, as the only black dot which is why I remember it, but I had no clue what he was saying. We passed it off as a weird kid moment. A couple of weeks later I learned "Sixsun" is how you pronounce the word for bird in Sanskrit. We never did figure out where he could have learned that, if he could have at all.

[@AmberWoodMusicx]

there’s an episode on this on a Netflix show called surviving death (episode afterlife) soooo interesting and similar to this

[@pokemonfanthings4444]

Kids say make up words all the time. There are hundreds of languages in the world. What words that sound like nonsense in one language mean things in other languages. There are only so many ways one can rearrange sound, plus kids famously mis pronounce things. Not saying you are lying, but you missed the point of this podcast

[@pokemonfanthings4444]

Adding that ‘six sun’ sounds like ‘ the sun’ in the voices of children

[@stephanie5293]

A comment regarding the video/audio sync problems - i guess we are going to have to enjoy this episode the way that a podcast is meant to be enjoyed: by just listening to it

[@yvinaire]

If we wish to think of reincarnation through a science lens: if the soul exists (nothing has proven nor dis-proven this claim seeing as we continue to discover parts of the human anatomy) it would just be matter that cannot be destroyed, only reshaped. Just my own kind of theory.

[@3r4cha]

i really like your theory bro !!

[@XigXag]

Or it’s a form of energy, which also can’t be destroyed

[@pokemonfanthings4444]

Assuming a soul is a real thing/ what you define as a soul. Using a religious view of the soul, nothing about religion is scientific

[@stephanie5293]

LOL the passive tension between Luke and Corry 27:10

[@puffpride8344]

Ohhh this one will be interesting. I believe in reincarnation (in a joining the collective consciousness of the universe with the potential to be reborn kind of sense) so I'm very interested in this one.

[@angelicaharwell3062]

Excellent Luke...really loved your input here..I was mentally high fiving you, whilst painting my bedroom, up on a ladder. Corry, your consistency & devotion to science is also applauded. I personally believe there are things we cannot prove or disprove..like a Higher Power for instance, but our nature can still hold it as reality. I just came off the Loch Ness episode, I've been told I have ancestry back to the Uruquart(?) Castle in Scotland. Emotions & fantasy are so strong, that we want the magic, more than that giant eel! Great work here, as always👏

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

I'm an atheist and I don't believe in reincarnation or past lives. I used to, because it's a comforting thought. However if you think about it any more deeply than the superficial comfort, it's quite depressing and even horrifying. You wouldn't just have all the good memories, but also all the bad ones, and all the baggage from your past. You would be bound by the expectations and relationships of your past self, instead of being able to live your own life. What if you were a bad person, like a serial killer or evil dictator? What if there were things you wanted to forget, but can't? It's bad enough that some of these things can happen within your current life. I wouldn't want to be dragging around all of that baggage for all eternity.

[@More13Feen]

Or the concept of your soul not moving on to the next life. How horrible, watching all your loved ones in pain cuz you died and you are still there absolutly powerless...

[@stephanie5293]

ASSUMING THAT WE LIVE IN A MATERIAL WORLD IS TRUE aaah such good points, ive never thought about that, thank you luke

[@Roanmonster]

The problem I have with people claiming to remember past lives is that they're always some kind of special person. They're never a regular farmer that had a pretty regular life and died in a pretty regular way.

[@The3rdPlateau]

I mean yeah if you only pay attention to cherry-picked examples, I can understand why that would lead to such confirmation bias. But that statement simply isn't representative of the facts... seldom are any other "they're always x kind of person" statements

[@lasagnad2517]

I believe in past lives because I have memories of it, I understand however that most people who haven’t had that experience don’t. I really appreciate that you’ve done this episode, thank you. It is a difficult thing to prove and science is not yet advanced enough to understand and explain the things me and many others have gone through and experienced. I’m looking forward to that day, once again thank you for being so open minded and accepting, I really admire you actually want to learn more and not just what’s convenient :3

[@RemAtmos]

Science is usually putting their money into other areas. Hey, your experiences have validity. I feel the same way. I don’t need science to confirm my experiences for me. It’s just hard to convince others of it, is all - yknow, if they haven’t experienced it theirselves

[@roniemacaroni864]

I've actually heard about this. In epigenetics there was this study, where if a rat was shocked for doing something. Then when the rat had offspring. the rat baby would actively avoid doing what it's parent did. They found this in people too, where if you smoked or were traumatized, that anxiety and physical trauma is genetically given to the kid. So my assumption is that, the people the kids are describing are their ancestors. I'm also assuming that, in order to have such a strong Idea about the ancestor, you need to be heavily genetically tied to them. So mabey their parents are distant descendants of the ancestor giving the children a more in depth understanding of the ancestor. ergo they aren't past lives but ancestors genetic memories and trauma

[@CharacterBackground]

Whether it ties together with epigenetics or not, the memories/preferences that organ recipients develop in common with their unknown donor could help develop this idea. if we have a life record in our bodies and pass some or all to our decedents, a whole slew of knowledge could one day open up. Think of the retrospective studies we could do.

[@eren2709]

You typed “mabey” in a way that I forgot how it’s actually written.

[@vynneve]

This show really isn't about reincarnation. It's about remembering reincarnation. That's a whole other thing

[@nicopato1]

Ive gotten so used to the old camera angles. The new ones feel so wrong

[@goshdoggett]

I had that same thought right when I started watching. Felt weird at first but I stopped noticing it after a few min

[@stephanie5293]

Oh lol true. They switched which side of the table they are on!

[@3r4cha]

the way i think about reincarnation is pretty much how Cloud Atlas explains it, (don’t get me wrong that film’s execution is beyond messed up, a white actor played an asian man for no reason other than to preserve continuity) but the theory it employed is how i believe reincarnation works pretty much :)

[@3r4cha]

@dan parker this was a sick explanation thankyou!!

[@JuanPablodelaTorre]

If reincarnation is real BUT we can't remember things between one life and the next, then reincarnation is something that can be demonstrated and it is not an interesting topic. Now, if you can remember, then it can be pursued scientifically and it could be demonstrated.

[@AmberWoodMusicx]

watch surviving death on netflix, there’s an afterlife episode where it’s been proven children have info they could not have learnt before and have vivid specific nightmares of their past life’s death

[@vynneve]

Yes* *long anserr. If you think of it in terms of the physics that we know, mostly, assuming the universe is infinite (or multidimensional) the exact molecular compound of *you* would necessarily repeat after enough time. Even if you take all the possible forms that matter can spit out, it's still finite, very very large 10^78! (Factorial) iirc. But it's still finite, so with infinite time it will eventually repeat, but stuff other than you may be different, and nurture+nature could be different. But that could be a type of reincarnation, so in that form, i believe it yes.

[@judez.3975]

is anyone else having an issue with corry’s audio/video syncing?

[@huwcresswell6996]

yyyyyyup

[@stephanie5293]

weird that it is just corry's video...

[@plastic_frog]

@@stephanie5293 I think it might have something to do with his mic or the video itself

[@goshdoggett]

Yes and came to the comments to see if it was just me. That sometimes happens on KZbin vids for me but I can usually just go out of it and back in and it'll fix. Glad you brought it up so I don't keep trying to fix it lol

[@pserizoid]

yup same here, makes it very hard to lipread lol

[@pinotnoir4234]

I don't believe in religion or the afterlife, but I do believe in reincarnation

[@renaigh]

I think your more likely to wake up from when you last slept than be reincarnated.

[@tanner3806]

Im only halfway through so perhaps they'll mention it later on, but its just weird to me that alot of kids can "make up" facts about random people and get it right, without any predisposed knowledge of them ykno? But its hard to say, theres always potential that people are BIASED towards the existence of a past life, so they tell these stories in a way that confirms it? Its literally stories, and like chinese telephone, each new person can change a detail to suit their thinking, yknow! It just seems like theres no objective evidence of kids saying this stuff

[@pokemonfanthings4444]

49:20 there are details that could make all the other explanations that seem eerie make sense. -dancing on Broadway: maybe the kid saw a 30 second clip of the Rockettes. Maybe someone in their lives dances well, and someone once remarked something like “you are so good at dancing you can be on broadway” -maybe many of the towns/roads near the kids’ residence had rock or mountain themes in their names. This is common in the United States -the brown curly hair- perhaps that was a common hairstyle at the time To young children, many adults look the same. For example it is Common for them to not understand that three slim men with brown hair are not the same person. I’ve worked with kids under 5 for almost a decade and have taken several child development/child psychology courses at the graduate level. they do this all the time

[@mimsygoodcat3449]

I have a 13 Yr old. Kids at 3-6 say such creepy shit

[@More13Feen]

Just think how much time we spend telling toddlers what could be dangerous. Its everyday. But for them its pretty abstract. Wach out for the car, you might get hurt and that would be very very bad. But they don't understand how or why. Yet it is pushed on them all the time so of cours they try and taök anout it. And adults picking it up, making something esotherical out of it is just unhelpfull at best and very harmfull at worst

[@cyber.creature]

the excess of souls thing could be explained by animals, plants, insects, beings from other planets reincarnation into earth with a human soul

[@MaskedImposter]

What you need to remember is some of these reincarnated individuals had terrible memory in their first life. When they remember things incorrectly, that is actually proving they are their reincarnation. /Joke

[@caidenwilson6403]

oh god the off synch of audio and video but *just* for corey is hard to watch

[@minksrule2196]

I believe in reincarnation. I also believe that there are more people because there are less animals and yes animals have souls and you can reincarnate into an animal.

[@user-sw7ru6tk6e]

I don't not believe in reincarnation... I dont think I have really thought about it

[@AmberWoodMusicx]

I do believe in reincarnation as well as karma

[@Milo_frog_rocket]

I'd love a vegan babybel

[@stephanie5293]

i do not believe in it. i wish it existed though

[@al3xcj]

44:52 guys i was born in 2007, that must mean I'm Ian Stevenson. this is kinda how people sound that push the idea of past lives. they look for things that make their opinion seem correct, instead of there being clear points that stand out without exactly looking for them. they then ignore evidence that goes against their point because they want to prove themselves right

[@fanellaforever]

Cory has clearly not heard about oli London...........

[@TheSoaringWings-]

Are you a psychologist? Or psychiatrist? I don’t think so. You have no idea how exhaustive and exclusive the research is ! And so not in a position to judge.

[@thiel_spencer]

Unrelated, related comment: I find it hard to believe in past lives because a myth I've always heard revolving around them is that that is what deja vu is. It's a thing you've done already in some other past life that you remember vaguely right now. However, I have never experienced deja vu. Ergo how could I have had a past life?