IQ2 Debate on life after death

[blastula]

Death Is Not Final – IQ2 Debates

If consciousness is just the workings of neurons and synapses, how do we explain the phenomenon of near-death experience? By some accounts, about 3% of the U.S. population has had one: an out-of-body experience often characterized by remarkable visions and feelings of peace and joy, all while the physical body is close to death. To skeptics, there are more plausible, natural explanations, like oxygen deprivation. Is the prospect of an existence after death “real” and provable by science, or a construct of wishful thinking about our own mortality?

For
Dr. Eben Alexander
Neurosurgeon & Author, Proof of Heaven
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For
Dr. Raymond Moody
Psychologist, Medical Doctor & Author, Life After Life
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Against
Sean Carroll
Physicist & Writer
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Against
Dr. Steven Novella
Academic Neurologist, Yale School of Medicine

Moderator
MODERATOR
John Donvan
Author & Correspondent for ABC News

It's taking place today at 3:45 ET today 5/7 and will be live streamed. Short notice, but the video will be uploaded afterwards as well at the site.

 

[PyramidHead]

I thought Eben Alexander was exposed as a fraud?

 

[Tom Sawyer]

I thought Eben Alexander was exposed as a fraud?

Not if you ignore the evidence about him because it contradicts your previously held opinions.

 

[blastula]

I thought Eben Alexander was exposed as a fraud?

It will be interesting if they bring up that info. Which they should if he appeals to his own alleged experience as evidence.

 

[blastula]

I had the wrong time up there. It's at 6:45 PM ET, meaning it just started.