Comment by adastra22
3 years ago
Thank you, I appreciate the time you took to write this to me, but I really don't have any interest in the phenomena. I didn't even know who Sue Blackmore was tbh.
In my worldview burden of justification falls on those who would posit non-materialistic, supernatural explanations.
You're welcome. That's perfectly fair.
FWIW, I wasn't trying to say that the position should be "supernatural by default" - just that there's a lot more to account for in NDEs than what you've described, and that I don't know of anyone who's looked into them seriously who holds to Blackmore's attempt at a purely materialist explanation (another way it falls down - if oxygen starvation accounts for NDEs, they shouldn't happen for people who aren't oxygen-starved, but they do).
As an agnostic who really wants to believe in the supernatural but has the same gut instinct that there needs to be evidence for it, I have a plausible materialist explanation for NDEs, but it's rather more involved and isn't especially rigorous.