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After Death Communication: History, Research, and Impact with Dr. Kim Penberthy
Dr. Kim Penberthy presents her research, as well as the research of others, on the topic of after death communications (ADCs). Approximately 1 in 3 people report an ADC at some point in their lives, typically within a year of the death of a loved one, and these experiences occur in cultures all around the world. During this webinar, Dr. Penberthy will discuss and answer questions about her research on the history, prevalence, and impact of after-death communications (ADCs) on human belief systems, fears, spirituality, and grieving.
Webinar recorded on September 18, 2024.
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The Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS) is a research unit within the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia Health System. The research faculty of the Division are known internationally for their expertise and research integrity in the investigation of phenomena relevant to the nature of consciousness and its relationship to the physical world.
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Theory of Consciousness Meeting summary - July 2024
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At the end of July 2024, the Division of Perceptual Studies hosted an intense 3-day meeting organized by Dr. Edward F. Kelly and centered on presentations by four carefully chosen physicists and philosophers of physics who take the reality of psi phenomena seriously (Federico Faggin, Bernard Carr, Timothy Eastman, and Ruth Kastner). The main result was that, in principle, it is possible to fill...
Psi Phenomena and the Brain: Intro to DOPS Neuroimaging Lab with Dr. David Acunzo
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David Acunzo, PhD discusses his work on psi phenomena in the Ray Westphal Neuroimaging Lab at the Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS). DOPS is a research unit within the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia Health System. The research faculty of DOPS are known internationally for their expertise and research integrity in the investigation of phen...
Parental Attitudes on Children who Report Memories of Past Lives with Dr. Cozzolino
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Philip Cozzolino, PhD discusses his research on the attitudes of parents regarding their children who report memories of previous lives. Are mothers more supportive than fathers? What happens when a parent tries to encourage or suppress the memories? Do parental attitudes change as a case gets stronger? Learn the answers to all of these questions, and more, by watching this webinar. Recorded Ma...
Jim Tucker, MD: Director of DOPS, Bonner-Lowry Prof. of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences
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Meet Jim Tucker, Director of the UVA Division of Perceptual Studies (UVADOPS). Dr. Tucker is a pediatric psychiatrist and is focused on researching cases of young children who spontaneously make statements about remembering specific details from a past life. Dr. Tucker is the author of three excellent books on the subject of young children who have memories of a previous life: -Life Before Life...
Bruce Greyson, MD: Chester Carlson Prof. Emeritus of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences, UVA DOPS
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Meet Bruce Greyson, former Director of UVA DOPS, Chester Carlson Prof. Emeritus of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences, and a seminal member of the research faculty at the UVA Division of Perceptual Studies (UVADOPS). Dr. Greyson is a clinical psychiatrist and is well known for his groundbreaking research, over the past 40 plus years, into all aspects of the phenomena of near-death experience...
Marieta Pehlivanova, PhD: Research Assist. Prof of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences, UVA DOPS
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Meet Marieta Pehlivanova, a member of the research faculty at the UVA Division of Perceptual Studies (UVADOPS). Dr. Pehlivanova is a research psychologist and is especially interested in studying near-death experience phenomena and how to best support those who have had these life altering experiences. UVA DOPS is a research unit within the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences ...
Edward Kelly, PhD: Prof. of Research, UVA Division of Perceptual Studies
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Meet Ed Kelly, a member of the research faculty at the UVA Division of Perceptual Studies (UVADOPS). Dr. Kelly is an experimental psychologist and a neuroscientist. Dr. Kelly is especially interested in using our neuroimaging lab to study extrasensory states and psi processes. Dr. Kelly conducts his research in the the Ray Westphal eeg lab facility at UVA DOPS. Dr. Ed Kelly has co-authored and ...
Kim Penberthy, PhD: Chester Carlson Prof. of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences, UVA DOPS Faculty
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Meet Kim Penberthy, Chester Carlson Prof. of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences, and a member of the research faculty at the UVA Division of Perceptual Studies (UVADOPS). Dr. Kim Penberthy is a clinical psychologist and is especially interested in researching altered states. Dr. Penberthy is the author of “Living Mindfully Across the Lifespan: An Intergenerational Guide”. UVA DOPS is a resea...
SXSW Panel Discussion: Is There Life After Death? Featuring Jim Tucker, MD and Kim Penberthy, PhD.
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Jim Tucker and Kim Penberthy of the UVA Division of Perceptual Studies (UVADOPS) were the presenters for this special panel discussion of “Is There Life After Death?”, at the SXSW conference, 2022. Dr. Tucker is the Director of the UVA Division of Perceptual Studies, author of “Before: Children’s Memories of Previous Lives”, and leads the DOPS research efforts into children who remember previou...
Meet UVA’s Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS)
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(Note all rights reserved ) Housed at the University of Virginia’s School of Medicine, The Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS) explores the nature of consciousness in life and after death - and what these phenomena may illuminate about our understanding of the relationship between the brain and the mind. Meet the team of researchers who objectively document and rigorously analyze data and cas...
Dr. Kim Penberthy-Meditation and Altered States of Consciousness
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(*Please note: all rights reserved) This video was intially uploaded on Nov 17, 2016 In this video, research faculty member Dr. Kim Penberthy presents some preliminary findings regarding reports of unusual and extraordinary human experiences of novice, intermediate, and advanced meditators who enter into altered states during their meditation practice. The Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS) ...
John Cleese & Ed Kelly discuss survival of consciousness beyond death
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(*Please note: all rights reserved ) John Cleese is a friend and supporter of the research being done at UVA DOPS into the nature of consciousness. Mr. Cleese has a long history of personal interest in this important area of inquiry. In this video John Cleese and DOPS research faculty member Dr. Edward F. Kelly exchange ideas about current issues regarding scientific inquiry into the nature of ...
Ed Kelly interviewed by John Cleese @ Science, Skeptics and the Study of Consciousness
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(*Please note: all rights reserved ) John Cleese is a friend and supporter of the research into the nature of consciousness being done at UVA DOPS. Mr. Cleese has a long history of personal interest in this important area of inquiry. In this video John Cleese is interviewing UVA DOPS research faculty member and author Dr. Edward F. Kelly, about current issues regarding scientific inquiry into t...
John Cleese Interviews Dr. Jim Tucker re: DOPS Research into Children's Past Life Memories
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(*Please note: all rights reserved ) John Cleese is a friend and supporter of the research being done at UVA DOPS into the nature of consciousness. Mr. Cleese has a long history of personal interest in this important area of inquiry. In this video John Cleese is interviewing pediatric psychiatrist and director of UVA DOPS, Dr. Jim Tucker, about his research into the memories of young children w...
UVA DOPS Faculty Presentation: Do We Survive Death? A Look at the Evidence.
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UVA DOPS Faculty Presentation: Do We Survive Death? A Look at the Evidence.
Dr. Edward F. Kelly: Consciousness is More Than a Product of Brain Activity
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Dr. Edward F. Kelly: Consciousness is More Than a Product of Brain Activity
Dr. Jim Tucker: Children Who Remember Previous Lives
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Dr. Jim Tucker: Children Who Remember Previous Lives
Dr. Bruce Greyson: Near-death Experiences-Jeff Olsen shares his personal NDE
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Dr. Bruce Greyson: Near-death Experiences-Jeff Olsen shares his personal NDE

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  • @lynnsadler4392
    @lynnsadler4392 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I believe all this was going on for many years. How far has that came to have more evidence of all this talk of reality? Things change and it's so much study and rabbit holes lol

  • @lynnsadler4392
    @lynnsadler4392 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Where's the evidence

    • @paulmccarthy7461
      @paulmccarthy7461 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      There is evidence that people have experienced consciousness, as verified by what they heard and saw (confirmed by others present), when they showed no detectable signs of brain activity. What researchers make of this fact is theory

    • @lynnsadler4392
      @lynnsadler4392 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@paulmccarthy7461well if they have evidence, why is it a theory?

    • @paulmccarthy7461
      @paulmccarthy7461 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@lynnsadler4392 Because academic science, i.e. established scientific fields, has yet to explain the phenomena. So many scientists call these experiences spiritual or metaphysical, outside what science should study. However, if you research some more you will find that some scientists who have studied NDE, OBE's, and other "paranormal" experiences do feel that existing science needs to expand to explain PSI and become informed by it. Remember that Einstein's concept of relativity is called a theory, yet it has been applied in physics. Our scientific knowledge is a work in progress.

  • @martingarrish4082
    @martingarrish4082 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    My questions would have been: Does the group believe that evolutionary panentheism requires computational superconsciousness of is it already superdeterministic? Does the group believe that consciousness only affects biology or are inanimate objects affected?

  • @martingarrish4082
    @martingarrish4082 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Odd that you didn't discuss lucid dream ADCs. I have met a few individuals that way. Most recently my mother. I assume dreams take place in the same place as consciousness... Not veridical, but to me that didn't matter.

  • @agog777
    @agog777 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Excellent and so interesting ❤

  • @ECope-mr1sp
    @ECope-mr1sp หลายเดือนก่อน

    can I be a volunteer for this division?

  • @GeneJohnson-vy2ci
    @GeneJohnson-vy2ci หลายเดือนก่อน

    Science = make a hypothesis, test the hypothesis, and the hypothesis is either proven true or false. This isn't science.

    • @paulmccarthy7461
      @paulmccarthy7461 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Many subjective experiences can't be scientifically measured or proven--love, for instance. Have we proved that a subconscious process exists that motivates behavior? Much in the realm of psychology and philosophy and certainly theology, metaphysics does not lend itself to scientific study, which itself is based on a materialistic view of reality.

  • @GeneJohnson-vy2ci
    @GeneJohnson-vy2ci หลายเดือนก่อน

    No evidence. I have had family members die and nothing. I get why people "want to believe" but the proof suggest just like any animal or even machine when you die you die. You didn't exist before you were born and you don't exist after you die. Do you exist during surgery because of the general anesthesia? Interesting question I guess but if your brain is shut down in the sense of consciousness I guess you temporarily don't exist then either. In fact general anesthesia kind of proves that there is no soul as if there were it would be released during general anesthesia.

  • @je87777
    @je87777 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Jeff Olsen is a liar.

  • @mr.finley937
    @mr.finley937 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ❤️

  • @mr.finley937
    @mr.finley937 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

  • @johnvcorbett6528
    @johnvcorbett6528 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have developed my “wise mind” and my intuition is much deeper than before. I can “see over the horizon”. It’s all just come with age.

  • @johnvcorbett6528
    @johnvcorbett6528 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I’m 70, I had a fatal cancer diagnosis at 63, lost my beloved wife at 64. I am happier, more mindful, I have shed my ego, business garb for eastern day pyjamas, concern for material things and all the grudges I was carrying. And I quit smoking cigarettes and weed. I didn’t need an NDE or TM to achieve this.

  • @johnpeterson-m2f
    @johnpeterson-m2f 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    These great minds should get more exposure

  • @lynnsadler4392
    @lynnsadler4392 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I believe in stuff like this. We can never fully understand it. I don't think we ever will

    • @GeneJohnson-vy2ci
      @GeneJohnson-vy2ci หลายเดือนก่อน

      We understand basically how the world works. Perhaps there might have been justification for such studies in the 1970s but it is now all proven to be false. Time for us to grow up now. And can we PLEASE stop bothering Congress about UFOs or UAPs or whatever we want to call it. They have more important things to do. And it kind of puts us at risk as it takes the focus off of what is most likely going on. Craft from our Near Peers, ourselves, or private interests. We know the Chinese use balloons to spy on us. If we kookify this issue we will never find out what is really going on. Which is mostly nothing although like I said perhaps some human activities.

  • @Varipon
    @Varipon 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I can't say much here, but after watching the webinar the other day, I remembered a case I saw on a Taiwanese TH-cam channel a long time ago. (th-cam.com/video/EznE88B14dY/w-d-xo.html) In 2005, the body of an unidentified girl was found. However, despite the efforts of the police, the culprit was not found for ten years. Ten years later, a girl with a sensitive constitution sought revelation through divination about the whereabouts of her long-lost friend. God answered that her friend had been murdered. At first she was half-believed, but then she had a strange dream. In the dream, the shadow of her missing friend was shaking and crying. Realizing that her friend had met an unjust death, she consulted the police. The police restarted the investigation based on the girl's story and actually found the suspected murderer. There is a popular saying in the Taiwanese police circle : "Find someone who can solve the case on their own", because it is true that many serious cases are often solved secretly. In Taiwan, traditional East Asian philosophies, such as Taoist shamanism, that have been lost in China and Japan, still live on. Therefore Taiwanese people know a lot about communication with spirits and the relationship between the dead and the living.

  • @rainstriderstreamflower5645
    @rainstriderstreamflower5645 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I've read PDF which reexamined this case. I've found that the James Lettiger case, is filled with half-truths and bad science.

  • @adebayojobdaniyan
    @adebayojobdaniyan 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Dr John Searle once says what makes the process of digestion that involves only physical organs as far as we know any different from the process of consciousness. I don’t see any reason why the process of consciousness can’t be purely physical and involves the brain as the control center of that process.

  • @lomax6996
    @lomax6996 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This has long been one of the areas of research that most fascinates me! I've read accounts of phantom phone calls and emails from deceased persons. As an IT professional, now retired, the ones involving computers, cell phones and other types of IT communications equipment really interest me. One thing I've often wondered, and I'm serious about this, is whether or not someone who has re-emerged into the non-physical can still access MMORPG's online is some fashion. I'm also curios to find out if, as more people die who have been familiar with these devices thru out their lives, we'll see more such communications and contacts. Does anyone know of any really good sources for this type of specific research?

  • @andylam8994
    @andylam8994 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for sharing. It is a very meaningful research.

  • @bradleyifowler
    @bradleyifowler 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It seems like this is based upon anecdotes. There doesn't appear to be measurable evidence. Surveys do not produce empirical data, unless you are pursuing opinions. This presentation seems to be one that reinforces one's beliefs, and helps people confront their own mortality. This is what religion spawned from, however religion became tool of control. Again, education and claimed experiences do little to prove the reality of life after death. I want to believe, but I'm afraid this lecture has left me wanting

    • @livrowland171
      @livrowland171 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Me too, it didn't include much that surprised me. Basically, many people believe they have some kind of communication from deceased loved-ones and it is often comforting, I already knew that. I'm also more interested in results that give reason to think survival after death is real. Studying nuances of the psychological and sociological aspects is ok for an academic study, but it's not revolutionary.

  • @sl5311
    @sl5311 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    when my dad passed away a year ago he appeared in my mind's eye right before I feel asleep. It was not a regular hypnogogic vision but much more vision. And he was happier than I'd ever seen him in life. It freaked me out so much I came more fully awake and told my wife I think my dad just died. I found out 6 mos later he died that night. He was my adoptive father so this is more than genetic.

    • @bradleyifowler
      @bradleyifowler 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Its a compelling anecdote. While it may have been a real experience, its mre likely you were aware of failing health issues. However, if his death was sudden, like a car crash, perhaps it was a coincidence. Your statement that your wife as a corroborator is also an anecdote. In short, assuming your experience is true, it presents no measurable evidence of life after death. Sorry for your loss

  • @livrowland171
    @livrowland171 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm glad someone is studying these things still. But it does seem like it always remains uncertain if there is actual proof of survival or not, or these are just subjective experiences, and the mainstream scientific view never changes towards this. I used to think there could be some collaboration between scientists and direct voice or materialisation mediums that could prove it to be true, but it seems not. It's kind of obvious that, for example, experiences of some form of after-death communication are comforting. But it seems more important to find evidence that the experiences are objectively real 😐.

    • @bradleyifowler
      @bradleyifowler 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If only we could find a repeatable experiment, I would like to believe

    • @livrowland171
      @livrowland171 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@bradleyifowler yes :-/ Ps. Am just watching the second half now: it's good at least that they're now looking for ones that include some kind of objective 'validation'.

  • @livrowland171
    @livrowland171 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    At 11:30 it seems like 'materializations' would be the more suitable term than 'visions'? Not sure how a 'vision' is different from the item before, 'visual experiences'.

    • @bradleyifowler
      @bradleyifowler 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You can see things that aren't there. Therefore, materializations would be inaccurate

    • @livrowland171
      @livrowland171 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​​@@bradleyifowler true, it's more just the way it's described in the wording you see on screen. It says 'visions' appear solid, as compared to 'visual experiences', even though the latter can sometimes also be 'more solid'. It seemed a bit vague. I'd say there are around 3 ways a spirit could manifest in a visual way, as a vision you only 'see' in your mind's eye but that another person in the room wouldn't see; an apparition that is objectively there in the room but not 'solid', and then a materialisation that is there in a solid form you could touch as well as see.

    • @bradleyifowler
      @bradleyifowler 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@livrowland171 keep in mind we "hallucinate" reality. Our brains can only process a very small portion of what surrounds us. Since the brain reconstructs our surroundings, and translates the information, it can also mislead our perceptions. That being said, I find myself hoping an afterlife is real, and I am subject to fooling myself. I must be careful not to buy into anything without evidence

    • @GeneJohnson-vy2ci
      @GeneJohnson-vy2ci หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@livrowland171 Blind people don't have visual dreams. I know that should be obvious but if there was something more then perhaps they would "see" stuff in their brain. Again, just another proof that we are physical beings living in a physical world and there is no spiritual world.

  • @tombaker4586
    @tombaker4586 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I saw my grandpa 's face on the glass in the apartment he lived in for 40 years. It was very clear and not scary.

    • @GeneJohnson-vy2ci
      @GeneJohnson-vy2ci หลายเดือนก่อน

      You imagined it. Nothing wrong with that. It's how the brain works sometimes. Doesn't mean you are "crazy".

  • @Steven-c7x6j
    @Steven-c7x6j 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Excellent lecture!

  • @GraceKirk-k8y
    @GraceKirk-k8y 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Im 71 now, I was what you describe as a CORT kid. I worked for the same company as my PP, and discovered the woman I work for was married to the funeral director who arranged my funeral which involved bringing my body from London to Liverpool. I changed career, became a medical secretary and worked in almost every field of medicine and surgery. Interestingly I retired from my career ... in the field of Neurology which I found absolutely fascinating. I decided long ago that I would spend my life informally studying metaphysical phenomena, astrology, quantum physics, Buddhist philosophy etc. because I didn't want to limit or confine my learning to any one curriculum. I had to allow my mind to wander down avenues of my own choice in order to understand the whole reincarnation process. I know I have reincarnated numerous times and that consciousness is what we bring with us from life to life because at this point in our evolution it's important to recognise that death of the body is not necessarily death of the personality or consciousness... it's a continuum.

  • @jainshree
    @jainshree 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    During NDE experiences, how does the soul able to see things without the eyes? As they are talking about brains vs mind, is there similar thing - conscious eyes vs physical eyes?

  • @davidderidder2667
    @davidderidder2667 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It is pretty late, man has been stuck in bullying each other into taboos, thank god finally a university is orderly pursuing real science around NDE’s and consciousness

  • @davidderidder2667
    @davidderidder2667 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Is see these new videos, but for 5 years nothing was posted. May I ask why?

  • @davidderidder2667
    @davidderidder2667 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I am 52 years old and when I was 10 years old I found a book about NDE’s and all these things were on a more case by case basis already described in it. Now after 42 years I see this and I am on the one hand glad to see this, but on the other hand it is sad to see that there has been relatively very little investments in the NDE space. We need to accelerate this and get rid of the taboo around the subject.

  • @davidderidder2667
    @davidderidder2667 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It is 2024 and you people are just getting started!???? Heavens what has science been doing for all those decades?

  • @GeneJohnson-vy2ci
    @GeneJohnson-vy2ci 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It doesn't seem like there's much evidence for PSI abilities.

  • @LucyFre
    @LucyFre 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Its not proof reincarnation understood " religiously " ( like Hinduism or Gnosis). It could be fenomenon from fizics ( quantic fizics) we don't yet understand. Like time- space area , interruption in communication ( receving& sending messages). Some disruption in sphere of : time , space , communication.Same phenomenon is stigmata from christianity. We don't understand it but its not any "proof" of anything.

  • @Myironrodleftindia
    @Myironrodleftindia 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So what if there is really one thing trying to experience it self and ideas of access to knowledge through a spiritual being is really the person being able to type into one of the collective past lives that have experienced. The implications of that could be a key factor to parapsychology because you could try to access experiences of a certain person before and after certain events to get a better understanding of the underlying issues within certain genomes and see if there are progressing or not because honestly dna is memory and also I think this is just opinion to suppress a gene meant to be there to begin with could connect ideas of conformity, disease, and many issues we are faced with. When something is not able to be what it was suppose to be within a collective mental states are altered and something pretends it’s something it isn’t creating disease in that person and not just that if somebody’s been doing that for so long or people in general have been doing that for so long, not knowing what they really are truly and why DNA is the way it is then how do we reconcile all the alterations and how does that connect to people messing with stuff in the future and how that correlates to things in the past and why conflict of happenedI just questions I think of not saying I’m writing about any of it. I’m just trying to understand other perspectives and if anybody could kind of see where I’m coming from with these questions.

  • @Myironrodleftindia
    @Myironrodleftindia 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think some of this has to do with inducing a seizure there are different types of seizures some don’t even involve body tremors

    • @Myironrodleftindia
      @Myironrodleftindia 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Or maybe I’m wrong and misread an article

  • @karlkarlsson9126
    @karlkarlsson9126 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So cool

  • @chrismaki5456
    @chrismaki5456 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    About 28 minutes in. The one guy standing up claims that because we have consciousness (ability to think, reason, make analytical decisions), that it indicates we have free will. Because otherwise what’s the point of consciousness? I disagree with this. It’s more likely that we don’t have free will, but over the trillions of years of accumulating our complex intertwined systems, we live in a pocket(or bubble) that gives the impression of free will. For example, our minds are so intricately complex, with so many variables and micro systems working together, that we have developed the feeling of choice. I think this guy is downplaying or is not able to fathom the idea that we’re so complicated that we have grown into a system that feels independent of the source material. If element A met with element B, and their property interaction initiated the “big bang” process of expanding and growing the universe, at some point it became so advanced and complex that worlds were born, then humans, then the human brain structures. Just because I can voluntarily make the decision to decide to delete this comment, that doesn’t mean I have “free will”. For all intents and purposes, I do. But if we were to follow the events leading up to that decision, starting from element A and element B, you’d be able to track each interaction leading up to me making that decision. We are so far removed from that initial starting point that it’s developed into a pseudo “free will”.

  • @chrismaki5456
    @chrismaki5456 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    About 28 minutes in. The one guy standing up claims that because we have consciousness (ability to think, reason, make analytical decisions), that it indicates we have free will. Because otherwise what’s the point of consciousness? I disagree with this. It’s more likely that we don’t have free will, but over the trillions of years of accumulating our complex intertwined systems, we live in a pocket(or bubble) that gives the impression of free will. For example, our minds are so intricately complex, with so many variables and micro systems working together, that we have developed the feeling of choice. I think this guy is downplaying or is not able to fathom the idea that we’re so complicated that we have grown into a system that feels independent of the source material. If element A met with element B, and their property interaction initiated the “big bang” process of expanding and growing the universe, at some point it became so advanced and complex that worlds were born, then humans, then the human brain structures. Just because I can voluntarily make the decision to decide to delete this comment, that doesn’t mean I have “free will”. For all intents and purposes, I do. But if we were to follow the events leading up to that decision, starting from element A and element B, you’d be able to track each interaction leading up to me making that decision. We are so far removed from that initial starting point that it’s developed into a pseudo “free will”.

  • @livrowland171
    @livrowland171 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm glad serious people study such things, but it is a shame that after 60 years of DOPs and 150 years or so since the Society for Psychical Research was founded, it is still a bit anecdotal and we don't know for sure if life after death definitely exists and what it's like.

  • @KateStantonSings
    @KateStantonSings 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Amazing work you're all doing at DOPS! Incredibly fascinating to learn about...

  • @Daryoushatami
    @Daryoushatami 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You should all go to candy store in sweet Sweden to have each a medaill made of 🍭🍭

  • @clausgammelgaard2175
    @clausgammelgaard2175 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for the effort. Please be careful, when you interpret other scientists. Donald Hoffman has never said, there is no reality, as it is stated app. at 1:45. He is saying the same as the interpreter: We are lookimg for maths to describe a reality behind spacetime.

  • @jamesjurgensen6332
    @jamesjurgensen6332 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    We are starting to make great leaps in the collective growth of the human consciousness! We only hold great outcomes from going down this path

  • @TimothyCookUSMCRetired
    @TimothyCookUSMCRetired 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow, what a room. Thank you for sharing this.

  • @Madgura
    @Madgura 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    From my experience the body is just an instrument to stream consciousness. Like cloud gaming. Hmmm. The large interplanetary cloud of 4helium... Hmmmm... 😊

    • @Madgura
      @Madgura 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Or the same way an A.I. server can be active on multiple devices.

  • @Lynda-777
    @Lynda-777 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Greater need and audience wanting this type of discussion than you imagine.

  • @lizafield9002
    @lizafield9002 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great job! This English/philosophy major understood the terrific communicators of physics, so that's a miracle. I was kinda surprised Aristotle got no mention. Didn't he conclude 2300 (?) years ago, writing the Phusis & Meta-phusis, that the nonphysical realm preceeds the physical in order of Being, tho it comes last in our understanding & isn't sensed physically by us? Also, very grateful to hear of a "space time container" we stuck our brains into, that implies Beyonditude. Materialist physics assumes it's all a closed system (or does it?) but none of Stephen Hawking's ideas about the origin of pur physical universe can be explained w/in the system, so he called it vaguely "spontaneous arising" by a "series of unlikely accidents," rather than say "ok i gotta say it's a mystery, an open system, & some intelligence outside our notion of the system could have sparked it into being & is still unfolding from w/in AND beyond, as we speak."

  • @paulbattista7736
    @paulbattista7736 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great video. I enjoyed watching it

  • @studentaccount4354
    @studentaccount4354 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Is physicalism the sameas materialism?

    • @srsatiii
      @srsatiii 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Physicalism is a modern evolution of materialism. They are essentially the same, physicalism just has a fresher coat of paint.