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Has the afterlife already been disproven? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/askscience@lemmy.world
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Sort of a follow up to my topic asking why NDE Research wasn't taken seriously. Which btw I got great replies to.

I was expecting the usual "Oh near death isn't REALLY death." And "Because its bullshit." Strawman non answers

But instead I got people interfacing with the data and pointing out that an afterlife was no the direction the data headed outside of spirituality circles that did not interpret the data correctly to begin with.

So looking at how everything to do with conciousness leads to the brain and how we have discovered that a sense of self separate from the body is illusionary.

I have to ask

Is it an open secret that the afterlife is debunked?

I can find tons of arguments and information against it and the only thing supporting basically going "Well the brain is your conciousness but no one knows for sure."

So a "I'm not saying no, but I sure as hell am not saying yes." Being the strongest yes isn't exactly reassuring. It makes me think the "I don't know" is actually a "no" trying to be polite

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[–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

"Afterlife" is an ambiguous term with no real consensus on it's definition. To approach it scientifically, you need to define it in such a way that it can be measured.

Once you've done that, you have something that you can reason with and test. Then you can search the literature for whether it is true or false.

So yeah, the first step to proving whether the afterlife exists or not is to give a definition of the afterlife.

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