Bradley Kitaoka - Week 2

               For my week two reading I decided to look at “An Approach to Prove the Existence of After Life by Analyzing Near Death Experience’s Data with Mathematical Logic”. I chose to read this article because a big reason why people don’t believe in the after life is because there isn’t any solid evidence about. But since this article explains it using numbers it can give people who don’t believe logistical reasoning on why it is a real thing. So, I was curious in seeing how they use values to determine their points. However, after reading the article they made it seem like some points are incomplete and left me with some questions. For example, in the section when they were explaining the values for their variables, they said “it is mathematically undetermined” and that “modern science can’t calculate the actual value”. Although I understand it’s hard to put a value on people’s emotions, I feel that they could’ve worded this better to make the values seem more accurate. Also, their explanation of time also left me with a few questions. Even though some of their research left me confused overall I thought it was explained well especially to people who have never heard of this stuff before. The paper did a good job explaining near death experiences and how people experience them. I feel like if technology in medicine continues to develop they could apply values to some of the missing variables and this evidence could make even the strongest non-believer change their opinion on the afterlife.

Pic: Stafford, B. (2018, July 16). The Out-Of-Body Experience. Retrieved April 5, 2020, from https://portaltoascension.org/article/out-of-body-experience/

Question: In the article they talked about how time was different for every organism. I understand how time can be different when people are sleeping but not too sure about organisms. Is this saying how time for flies, which have a lifespan of about 2 weeks, experience 24 hours differently from how we experience 24 hours?