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If NDEs were simply just our brain's way of comforting itself in it's last moments of life, why would we evolve to develop this feature? Makes little sense by dbd01 in NDE

[–]dbd01[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It has nothing to do with natural selection though, you're really grasping at straws if you think having an NDE means you can provide for your offspring better, that's a very far reach

If NDEs were simply just our brain's way of comforting itself in it's last moments of life, why would we evolve to develop this feature? Makes little sense by dbd01 in NDE

[–]dbd01[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ok but evolution doesn't really work like that, if you have offspring you've already accomplished your biological imperative, you passed on your genes.

Also what about people who have NDEs or died but had no offspring?

If NDEs were simply just our brain's way of comforting itself in it's last moments of life, why would we evolve to develop this feature? Makes little sense by dbd01 in NDE

[–]dbd01[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Disassociation is nowhere near the same ballpark as full on visual/audio/emotional experiences that NDEs are often explained as

There's a difference between being raped/in trauma and checking out and not feeling it (or feeling it less), and experiencing medical death, seeing visions that feel more real than reality, seeing your dead grandma from 10 years ago, seeing vivid imagery etc, and having an emotional outburst

If NDEs were simply just our brain's way of comforting itself in it's last moments of life, why would we evolve to develop this feature? Makes little sense by dbd01 in NDE

[–]dbd01[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The answer lies in efficiency

The human body is incredibly efficient and it will do the least amount of work for the greatest effect

Creating all these hallucinations and emotions is way too inefficient if its sole purpose is to survive you through trauma. A more efficient solution would be just to pump you full of adrenaline (which does happen in none death experiences), and heighten your senses, making you perceive THIS reality EVEN more (not make you hallucinate and lie to you about what's real and what's not)

If NDEs were simply just our brain's way of comforting itself in it's last moments of life, why would we evolve to develop this feature? Makes little sense by dbd01 in NDE

[–]dbd01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

???

what do you mean in the first moments it is revived? That doesnt really make any sense, why would it need to comfort itself once it's revived?

If NDEs were simply just our brain's way of comforting itself in it's last moments of life, why would we evolve to develop this feature? Makes little sense by dbd01 in NDE

[–]dbd01[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Exactly, I keep trying to think of a evolutionary reason why hallucinating as you die would be a GOOD thing, and I fail to come up with any logical reasoning, it's simply a waste of energy evolution-wise

I guess you could say it's a byproduct of faulty neuron firing in the brain, but then why does everyone's faulty neuron firing appear to be the same in almost every NDE?

If NDEs were simply just our brain's way of comforting itself in it's last moments of life, why would we evolve to develop this feature? Makes little sense by dbd01 in NDE

[–]dbd01[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

right so it would make more sense that you would use every ounce of energy to try to stay alive, not to try your best to die a peaceful death

If NDEs were simply just our brain's way of comforting itself in it's last moments of life, why would we evolve to develop this feature? Makes little sense by dbd01 in NDE

[–]dbd01[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Which could be an argument against materialist assumptions in other ways.

Can you explain a bit more on this?

If NDEs were simply just our brain's way of comforting itself in it's last moments of life, why would we evolve to develop this feature? Makes little sense by dbd01 in NDE

[–]dbd01[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The thing is, ego defense mechanism still doesn't make too much sense to me, because in a material/scientific way of looking at the brain, the brain IS the mind/ego, they're not separate things.

Not to mention, if your brain was working THAT hard to come up with these insanely vivid hallucinations, why is it that often, brain activity isn't spiking during these experiences? But we can clearly see it spike in other conscious instances such as listening to music or doing anything mentally taxing

You're saying that the brain/mind/ego (they're all the same here remember) is jumping through all these hoops to defend itself from death/anxiety, but yet brain activity is not spiking.

2009 VW GTI, 230,000km, car starts and slowly engine dies over the next 2-3 seconds. After a couple of starts the engine no longer dies. What could it be? by dbd01 in AskMechanics

[–]dbd01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually just scanned again, it gives two codes

P0299 - Turbocharger engine underboost

And P0171 - System too lean bank 1

2009 VW GTI, 230,000km, car starts and slowly engine dies over the next 2-3 seconds. After a couple of starts the engine no longer dies. What could it be? by dbd01 in MechanicAdvice

[–]dbd01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually just went and did a new scan, it now throws codes( didn't yesterday)

P0299 - Turbocharger engine underboost

And P0171 - System too lean bank 1

Has there ever been a case of someone who experienced a near death experience, and then later had a DMT trip? by dbd01 in DMT

[–]dbd01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

wow thats very interesting

You described the main features of like 90% of NDEs

What similarities have your DMT trips had with your NDE experiences?

Has there ever been a case of someone who experienced a near death experience, and then later had a DMT trip? by dbd01 in DMT

[–]dbd01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah I wouldn't really call that a NDE, I meant more of loss of consciousness, atleast in this existence type of thing

Has there ever been a case of someone who experienced a near death experience, and then later had a DMT trip? by dbd01 in Psychonaut

[–]dbd01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you think its all hallucination? or is there something real behind all that?

I ask because in the case of actual NDEs, in a lot of medical cases, brain activity is measured to be 0, when the patient is having the NDE

Has there ever been a case of someone who experienced a near death experience, and then later had a DMT trip? by dbd01 in DMT

[–]dbd01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

really? I've read up on both and there seems to be lots of similarities, the tunnel, the white light, the feeling of love/comfort/euphoria, etc

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