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Todd Murphy Lecture 2: Darwinian Reincarnation

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Todd Murphy

Although this is a series of talks on Spirituality and the Brain , tonight there isn't going to be a lot of brain science. Tonight the emphasis is more on anthropology, some brain function and a touch of physics.

I want to start out by saying that the work, the ideas, I'll be presenting to you tonight, I've been working on since 1985 . Which makes it somthing like 23 years that I've been trying to get these concepts together.

It came to a conclusion in 1999 - 2000 when the ideas that I will be presenting tonight, were published in The Journal for Near Death Studies.

The title of the publication was:

The Structure and Function of Near Death Experiences and Algorithmic Reincarnation.

Now, that makes it all sound all very heady but you have to write that way when your writing for the Journals.

When the paper was published, (and this is a peer reviewed scientific paper), once that was published there, and a theory of reincarnation was reviewed by a group of scientists, (who all agreed collectively that this was worth publishing). From that time on, reincarnation, became a matter of science for scientists to debate among themselves, both to see whether or not they agree with it, to see if the could find something wrong with it, and hopefully, eventually, come to some agreement that the hypothesis is valid.

Let's begin.

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Let’s begin.

Reincarnation and Near Death Experiences

One fundamental assumption that I make and it is almost impossible to build a scientific theory without an assumption of some kind, (if you don’t like assumptions you should leave Albert Einstein’s work quite alone because he uses several to build Relativity and it’s a fairly standard part of scientific method).

My assumption is that:

Near Death Experiences, (the stories and reports that come from people who die clinically and then come back to life) these are not just near death experiences, these are not experiences of people who almost die have. These are experiences that reflect the actual death process as it occurs in human beings, so that, if you die and don’t come back you end up with the same experience as those who die and do come back.

So

This is an important assumption and there are a few researches who don’t agree with me on this point they think that near death experiences have nothing to do with death per say or that we can’t draw that conclusion because there isn’t any final evidence.

This assumption allows me to use evidence and experiences from people who have died and come back to life as evidence in building the theory we’re going to be looking at tonight.