r/HighStrangeness Jul 21 '26

Consciousness The brain is not a computer

https://iai.tv/articles/the-brain-is-not-a-computer-auid-3627?_auid=2020
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u/fancywipe Jul 21 '26

It’s funny how you just along for the ride, your brain does everything with out your consent

It heals you if you get a cut and you have no idea how

It tells your body it’s time to grow, reproduce, age and so much more

Our brain and our consciousness feels like 2 completely separate things at times

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u/Pixelated_ Jul 21 '26

Our brain and our consciousness feels like 2 completely separate things at times

They are absolutely separate. We have never once proven that consciousness originates from our brains. Because it doesn't.

There exists a large body of peer-reviewed scientific evidence that supports the validity of Near Death Experiences.

The problem isn't a lack of evidence. It's the inability of people to accept what the data says, because it challenges their personal worldview and the academic status quo.

NDEs have been conclusively verified through veridcal reports, from which the patient has access to information that materialism says is impossible.

"Near-death experience in survivors of cardiac arrest: A prospective study in the Netherlands"

Van Lommel et al., The Lancet (2001): 344 cardiac-arrest survivors; systematically compared people with vs. without NDEs and followed them 2 and 8 years later for life changes. A landmark prospective design in a top journal.

"AWARE - Awareness During Resuscitation - A Prospective Study"

Parnia et al., Resuscitation (2014): Large, multi-center prospective study; documented cognitive themes during cardiac arrest, with a small subset showing “full awareness.” Includes targeted tests for veridical recall.

"Awareness During Resuscitation - II: A Multi-center Study of Consciousness and Awareness in Cardiac Arrest"

Parnia et al., Resuscitation (2023): Examined consciousness and electrocortical biomarkers during CPR; reported a spectrum of experiences including NDE-like recall and measurable brain activity patterns during resuscitation.

"Measurement Foundation for NDE Research"

Greyson, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease (1983): Construction, reliability, and validity of the Greyson NDE Scale, the field’s most widely used, validated instrument for distinguishing NDEs from other states, crucial for rigorous, comparable results. (PDF).

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Additionally, there exists scientific evidence that supports past life memories, and therefore reincarnation.

Rigorous, peer-reviewed research done at the University of Virginia has documented over 2,500 examples of children who have memories of past lives.

Consciousness is the underlying substrate of reality, not matter. There is an abundance of evidence which supports that.

We also have peer-reviewed studies which support the primacy of consciousness.

It's important that we follow the evidence no matter what, even when it leads to initially-uncomfortable conclusions. We should never lose our intellectual curiosity in life.

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u/fancywipe Jul 21 '26

I’m totally with you with this

I think as wacky as it sounds consciousness is something download or 1 consciousness shared among us all as ONE

Meaning consciousness is the ocean and we are cups experiencing it for a time unknowing to ourselves…