Can people experiencing a NDE percieve and later remember things viewed from an angle that they would have no access to otherwise?
And then you can device a test as:
European Tribune - 'Woo-woo' vs science
The current research programme involves placing artwork in emergency rooms/operating theatres that can only be viewed from high up, in an attempt to verify whether or not reported out of body experiences have any substance to them. (Excuse the pun).
If the test turns out positive, then you can go on and modify it in different ways and see if you can learn about boundary conditions for the phenomena. What this means or what it is can not be answered, only how it manifests. What you want to call whatever you find for - soul, ESP, quantum-information transfer or simply witchcraft - is very much a part of the scientific canon, but not of the method. A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
Right, and most of the debate around this is about what it means, because how it manifests is basically a collection of self-reported incidents by subjects and though there can be some disagreement on the reliability of self-reporting, that is not a difficulty specific to this particular kind of reported phenomenon. A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith
That's also true in 'hard' science (no experiment without theory-led manipulation of raw data) but the tension is not that great. A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith
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Note: Tried to embed the link but kept fucking up. In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.
