Alex
Administrator
ok, but Alan is an IANDS board member! why have an IANDS (intl assoc of NDE studies)? why have an IANDS conference? If we're going to do NDE science we should do it well.Alex kept pushing him for improvements on NDE studies and fretted about how NDE studies are being brushed over and undermined by hints that experiences are nothing more than chemical brain reactions, Alan narrows the conversation down to experiments that he says prove that consciousness must exist before a material brain, pointing to double slit theory and quantum electrodynamics, and claims that whoever doesn't incorporate this into their argument for NDEs, is missing something.
Alex is still not happy and brings his concern back to the double sided views being pushed in the current field of NDE, such as Sam Parnia who hints that a materialist explanation could be a viable explanation for people's experiences, by chemical reactions causing hallucinations.
Alex seems frustrated that there is no experimental design to verify NDEs and no physical process by which to replicate or demonstrate them, as you would a normal scientific experiment.