The Open To Debate site debated the statement "Death is not finale". The moderator-in-chief John Donvan does his usual great moderator job.
For the statement is Eben Alexander, Neurosurgeon, Author of ‘Proof of Heaven’ and Raymond Moody, Medical Doctor, Author of ‘Life After Life’.
Against is Sean Carroll, Physicist & writer and Steven Novella, Academic Neurologist at the Yale School of Medicine.
From the web site "If consciousness is just the workings of neurons and synapses, how do we explain the phenomenon of near-death experience? By some accounts, about 3% of the U.S. population has had one: an out-of-body experience often characterized by remarkable visions and feelings of peace and joy, all while the physical body is close to death. To skeptics, there are more plausible, natural explanations, like oxygen deprivation. Is the prospect of an existence after death “real” and provable by science, or a construct of wishful thinking about our own mortality?"
No comments:
Post a Comment