NDE Debate: Alex Tsakiris vs. Steven Novella

In this episode of Skeptiko, Alex Tsakiris interviews and debates Dr. Steven Novella, Yale neurologist and host of "The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe", on the interpretations of Near Death Experiences and their implications for survival consciousness.

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• near death experience
• alex tsakiris
• steven novella
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• spirit
• heaven
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• consciousness
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• evidence

[satoishi59]

When you've lived NDE you know it's true. It is a fact , the most beautiful event of your life. How can be believer or not , have some opinions?? Is the earth round? ..

[bunflinger]

@bunflinger @Bartone (and other readers)...BTW for anyone reading these comments, I apologise, it's not good. I did not start the disrespectfull language however and I intend to remove the comments as soon as Mr Bartone has finished his nonsense.

[bunflinger]

@theBartone9119 I agree you are an advanced animal, Bartone. A jackass.

[bunflinger]

@theBartone9119 No, YOU educate yourself you buffoon. The reason that only 12-18 % have NDE is not known but probably is connected to loss of memory after the trauma of cardiac arrest.

[bunflinger]

@theBartone9119 If a physiological brain explanation was behind the NDE then EVERBODY should have one. Can't you see that you idiot ?

[bunflinger]

@theBartone9119 No other researchers are remotely interested in REM as an explanation for NDE. You are talking out of your backside.

[bunflinger]

@theBartone9119 When the brain is down no one dreams anything. You are making yourself look a bigger idiot than I thought you were.

[DStrike0083]

@theBartone9119 i don't think you know the difference between clinical death and biological death. Like how there are hits from the cool project whereby those who are considered "clinically dead" can see things while floating above the ceiling.

losing? how childish. The question is to determine the truth. If you think this is a win/lose situation, you are seriously naive

[theBartone9119]

@bunflinger Death = 0% potential for vital biological functions to work

Nobody we know of who had an NDE met death, because they ended up living to tell the story. This means there was still something biologically going on meaning nothing they experience can be evidence of what happens after death. You lose.

[theBartone9119]

@bunflinger If there was an objective afterlife then everyone who went into cardiac arrest would experience it. The problem is only 12% - 18% of people in this near death states actually have a near death experience, leading evidence towards the option that it has to do with the brain because if their was an objective afterlife, everyone who enters clinical death should experience NDEs, they don't. Meaning they are not supernatural. Educate yourself.