• Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
          4·
          7 months ago

          Give us your experimental designs to verify or falsify all the things you listed:

          Afterlife

          Reincarnation

          A creator of the universe

          Little people

          Spirits

          I personally believe none of it but show me how it can be proven using the scientific method.

            • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
              4·
              7 months ago

              Environments suggesting an afterlife may be encountered via certain meditation techniques.

              What is your control group for this?

              Does people not experiencing this while mediating prove it does not exist. (I have been practising meditation for 20 years and have no indication of this)

              Interviews with children who recall past lives suggests reincarnation.

              Do interviews with children who do not recall pass lives invalidate this?

              Something fitting description of a “creator of the universe” may be encountered via certain meditation techniques.

              What is your control group for this?

              Does people not experiencing this while mediating prove it does not exist. (I have been practising meditation for 20 years and have no indication of this)

              Little people. Hmm. You got me there. But the literature is filled with reports.

              Literature is filled with shit people made up, it proves nothing scientifically.

              And of course, these methods unavoidably esoteric and depthy.

              Exactly, none of what you wrote is based on the scientific method.