Can Science adequately explain Near-Death Experiences?

[Physics-Man]

Yes

No

Other

[sage2021]

Science can't explain it, but my son explained his experience in detail to me right after his emergency open heart surgery. It is quite fascinating to listen to a person while they are telling you what happened to them. I believe him 💯%

[StevieNix]

I think explaining or understanding it, would be like trying to explain the color blue to a blind person. I guess we'll all find out some day.

[StevieNix]

Thanks for the MHO.

[dynamicyandere]

The science is that DMT (Dimethyltryptamine) is a naturally-occurring psychedelic that is released by our pineal gland in our brain. DMT is released in trace amounts while we dream but it’s released in much higher concentrations upon death.


Research has been shown that near-death experiences and administering DMT to research participants have strikingly similar reports in terms of what people experience.


So yes, I think science can explain NDE.


But, I also like to keep an open mind about things so I also wouldn’t say that this is the only valid theory—just a plausible one.

[EnglishEuropean]

Next week: "How Science Ruins Everything" lol

[dynamicyandere]

Haha, that would be so anticlimactic though. If NDE was really just us tripping balls. Hopefully, there’s something more interesting that happens. 😂

[FreyaRed]

I think most of those near death experiences are created after the brain gets conscious again and tries to figure out what happened. But there is no information there because lack of oxygen shots brain down to minimal activity. That's why those experiences are often very similar. Jet fighter pilots have very often tunnel vision while flying high g-forces

[Creampiekarl420]

I’ve recently become very interested in spontaneous human combustion the last recorded I heard of happened to an Irish man in 2014 science can’t explain this and they rule it out as an act of god it’s very fascinating and I can’t stop seeking the truth behind it

[sage2021]

@Creampiekarl420
Since you seem to be fascinated by human phenomenon, have you heard of "Street Light Interference?" It is also referred to as "Street Lamp Interference".
I personally know someone that has this. It's when certain people walk under a street light, the light will go out. When I told my friend about what she has, she said "I always thought it was my father letting me know he is watching over me from heaven".( Her father passed away years before.)
You might want to check it out 🙂

[Anonymous]

It depends what you consider adequate. Yes I think science has more than adequately explained it. Doesn't mean they aren't real. Science has explained the 10 plagues of Egypt. That doesn't mean that miracles aren't real either. When you consider all the things that were needed to give rise to man, it's literally astronomical. God fingerprints are all over it.

[IceCreamSandwich]

The typical near death experience of seeing things? Or the near death experience of going out of body and being able to describe in accurate detail things you wouldn't have seen even if you had been alive at the time?

[Physics-Man]

Either one is good.

[IceCreamSandwich]

Yes to the first, no to the second. That doesn't mean there is no scientific explanation for the 2nd, but it's about as likely to be found as an explanation for consciousness is.

[Subarugirl]

yeah... your system is pumped full of hormones and your brain is constantly trying to make sense of things. It similar to a dream state on steroids basically.

[normalice]

In much the same way they can adequately already explain dreams, yes. I suppose adequate is relative..

[Snsl153]

Really? What's the explanation for dreams? Why do they happen?

[normalice]

No idea. I'm saying it is the same explanation.

[Snsl153]

If you don't know what causes dreams, then how can you say they have the same explanation? That makes zero sense. In any case, NDE's are nothing at all like dreams.

[normalice]

An explanation and a cause are different things. The neurochemical explanation for how the brain creates dreams is the same as the neurochemichal explanation for how the brain creates NDEs. How the latter is triggered compared to the prior is an argument over cause, which I was not discussing.

[Snsl153]

Why should anyone believe the brain creates the NDE? There's absolutely no evidence for that whatsoever. As I said before, NDE's are nothing like dreams, and they're not like ordinary altered states (caused by drugs) either. The cause isn't anoxia or hypoxia, they've been ruled out. It isn't the brain having a seizure, or finally saying good bye. None of the conventional materialistic explanations offered thus far explain it.
As for the difference between causes and explanations, usually the two are one and the same, and if by your own admission you have no idea what causes any given phenomenon then perhaps you should just remain silent on the issue, or admit you just don't know.

[normalice]

What? There is no other explanation unless you're trying to do the "no one understands it precisely just yet so letsjustgoaheadandassumeJESUS!" thing, even though there is absolutely no evidence of magical intervention - while there is in fact an abundance of evidence on brain function.

The problem with studying NDE is that you have to wait around for someone to nearly die. Obviously, that can't happen easily in a lab. So you have to extrapolate from what we know. I'm not neurochemist, though. But apparently neither are you.

[Snsl153]

I'm not sure. Perhaps. Personally though, I hope there isn't an afterlife, because one life is more than enough for me, and the thought of existing for an eternity of time just doesn't appeal at all.

[Bratsondanielle]

Yes the brain doesn't get enough oxygen so it just does weird things

[Tamera952]

No it certainly cannot. There’s some things that are part of the human experience that can’t be measured or quantified.

[Exterminatore]

Yep. How much a person irritates me depends on how nearly dead I will make them.


Lots of double blind studies went into obtaining these results as verifiable scientific proof.

[Avicenna]

Maybe. What's the science behind them?

[Physics-Man]

I don't know, unfortunately.

[Avicenna]

I have no idea either

[Amy10223]

No, science doesn’t believe in this sort of thing. They only want facts and proof.

[jahaims]

Yeah, your brain releases chemicals to make passing more peaceful.

[Anonymous]

Maybe, partially, but I don't think science still has the necessary equipment to be sure is their theory correct or not.

[SmokinAces2000]

What needs to be explained, someone almost dies they don’t the end

[NathanDavis]

yes, they have...

[BungusHighFivePizza]

yes i like scientism

[LztutuIsCute]

We'll all find out someday.

[msc545]

Maybe. It is very complicated.

[sythe_crimsonstar]

Depends on what kind of experience it is

[Tamera952]

Duhh