i love reading about science, technology and the future.
last summer, i was in the grocery store scanning the magazine rack and i came across a DISCOVER magazine (special issue) some of the articles that were in this particular issue was....
how much does the internet weigh?
the search for the human soul
radio
does time exist?
iz there a *CENSORED* gene?
journey to the center of the earth
chernobyl revisited
the hidden oceans
atoms
the complexity of nothing
and
your body iz a planet
the article that got my attention the most was entitled "SOUL SEARCH: can science ever decipher the secrets of the human soul." i was very excited to read it, and when it began talking about OBE (out of body experiences) and NDE (near death experiences)
it says in so many words...
at the center of many OBE's and NBE's iz the sensation of the mind having left the body and because of this, may have actually spawned the idea of a soul. it goes on to say early human may have actually experienced this and interpreted it as evidence of their minds seperating form their body.
there are many philosophers, psychologists and one nuero scientist in particular named Olaf Blanke. he is a neuroscientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.
Olaf's question is what is OBE and more importantly what causes them. to answer this question, he set out to actually cause one!
he actually induced an OBE in a patient by stimulating the temporal-parietal junction (a part of the brain important in body orientation) each time they stimulated that area, the patient, who had never had an OBE before, experienced one.
while they were stimulating it, she was awake and not impaired in any sense, and she told them that she saw the world, including the 3 people in the room and herself lying in bed from an elevated perspective!
wooooooooooooooooo when i read that; i had to put the magazine down!
i did not pick it back up for a couple of hours. ummmmm that is some seriously deep *poop*! the question is, how in the hell do u interpret these results?
i have to tell ya, ummm my initial thoughts were.... whew! ok if a scientist can put something in ur brain and stimulate a certain area, ur point of view can change from seeing with ur eyes to looking down at urself?
ummm what the hell does that mean?
does that mean that ummmm i dont know how to say this. does it mean... well they are obviously hacking the brain when they do experiments like this! so what happens if they start taking this weird experiment to the next level and the next after that?
makes me think we all operating at a certain frequency, u interupt that frequency and the results are some serious next level *poop*!
scary *poop* if u ask me. i am reminded of when u die in mxo and u can look down at ur dead rsi in the game
mmmm
iz the matrix real?