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Thread #104312   Message #2134654
Posted By: Amos
27-Aug-07 - 02:03 PM
Thread Name: BS: OOB - Occam-Organized Brain
Subject: RE: BS: OOB - Occam-Organized Brain
Sure. But the presumption offered is that the stimulation of brain segments is similarly replicable. (And, let me offer as an aside that we do NOT know how the creative flow behind good scripts happens, either). Tweak the brain, get an OOB. Run the projector, and "Oh, the humanity!". A sentiment which I echo here.

Besides -- the two points not covered in this proposition are (a) that the brain tweaking actually does bring about a release of being and cause some sort of OOB incident. And (b) that the brain tweaking is a poor replica of such an actual experience, caused by electrical re-stimulaton of some memory lode.

Finally, you are forgetting or ignoring the tennis shoe. The tennis shoe is just one example of the white crow which discredits the pure mechanistic model of exterior adventures. It was observed and described in detail by a hospital patient who saw it (while out of her body) resting on a ledge outside the building, between windows, in such a position that she could not have possibly seen it from any location in the building she had been to. When her report was being considered, one of the officials of the hospital (if I recall the story rightly) went and inspected the ledge from the roof, and found the hidden sneaker in exactly the configuration which had been described. I linked to this report in one of the endless discussions we have had on this wearisome topic in the past, but I do not recall the thread name.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."


--Hamlet (I, v, 166-167)


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