Comment by swader999
3 years ago
We do though. It's pretty easy to have an out of body experience within about twenty days of trying. NDE phenomena has just too much data to dismiss if you give it a fair consideration. We get glimpses that there's more when you dig into the latest from Nima Arkani-Hamed. Donald Hoffman is a bit more of a stretch but his assertion that there's no way we can percieve true reality is solid.
Take some LSD and you can fly on the moon. Doesn’t mean it actually happened tho.
Doesn't prove that it didn't either.
The consistency of NDE are easy to explain: the brain being starved of oxygen and dying tends to shut down a particular way in all people. Loss of blood oxygen levels leads to narrowing of vision, as we know from astronaut training centrifuges. Keep this process up and it becomes a “tunnel of light.” The brain starts spasming towards the end, with everything being fired off faster than the conscious part can handle, which ends up being interpreted as your whole life flashing before your eyes.
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I agree that NDEs are weird and give some hints that _something_ is out there.
I think it more likely NDEs are a hint that the supernatural isn't fiction than that they're a consequence of being simulated.
Per the above discussion, though, if NDEs are a hint that we're in a simulation, they don't necessarily give us any access to the exterior reality. They could just as easily be part of the simulation as something outside of it (as could OBEs).