"Scientists have long suspected that the clue to these extraordinary, and sometimes life-changing, experiences lies in disrupting our normal illusion of being a self behind our eyes, and replacing it with a new viewpoint from above or behind."
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Saturday, August 25, 2007
recreating OBEs
Scientists appear to have found a way to simulate, at least to some extent, OBEs, or out-of-body experiences. I see ramifications in areas such as philosophy of mind, not to mention naturalistic explanations for what many people too hastily assume to be spiritual experiences.
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Kevin,
ReplyDeleteYou should check out this take on the ramifications of these findings:
http://www.slate.com/id/2172694/nav/tap1/
Basically, the writer's POV is that the recent experiments don't do as much to discredit the dualist/"spiritual"/New-Agey interpretations of OOB experiences as the experimenters seem to think.