Collect evidence of souls from a scientific perspective

Scientists increasingly gather evidence of soul and life after death. But these evidence may never be enough to confirm that the soul really exists.

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Outside the brain

According to Professor Bruce Greyson, Dean of the Department of Perceptual Research (DOPS) of Virginia Medical System University (USA), near-death experiences occur in 10% of patients with cardiac arrest. When awake, the patient can accurately describe all activities around them when they are unconscious. It is worth mentioning that in many cases of near-death experience, electroencephalogram and other medical evidence, the patient's brain has no signs of activity when this phenomenon occurs.

Mr. Pim van Lommel, expert on near-death experience at Rijnstate Hospital (Netherlands) agreed on this issue. He said that when in the near-death state, "the patients are not only conscious, but their consciousness is more open than ever. They can think very clearly, detailed reminiscences about childhood." and feel the close connection with everyone, everything around them, while their brain has absolutely no signs of activity. "

According to Professor Peter Fenwick, Institute of Psychiatry at Kings University (UK): " If it is possible to prove that people still receive information when they are unconscious and escaped, it is undisputed evidence of the idea. consciousness exists separate the brain ".

Perhaps, the idea of ​​the soul also comes from this situation. People from ancient times, when undergoing a state of illusion, assume that the spirit leaves the physical part then. From there, they began to believe in the existence outside the body.

Where did the soul come from?

The most surprising scientific evidence about the soul comes from the field of quantum mechanics, or more specifically from studies of consciousness-producing subatomic phenomena. The traditional view is that our consciousness is formed from a network of billions of neurons. But two professors Stuart Hameroff (University of Arizona, USA) and Roger Penrose (Oxford University, England) have developed a theory whereby consciousness is also the product of the process of quantum computing taking place in vi. tubes, a microscopic structure of brain cells.

In the past, many people thought that such a mechanism could not exist, because the original quantum computers were only able to operate in extremely cold environments, not at high temperatures like those in the brain. . However, studies in the last 5 years show that quantum mechanics is involved in a lot of non-cold biological processes, including photosynthesis.

A work by Anirban Bandyopadhyay (Japan National Institute of Materials Science) also revealed the possibility of quantum information bits that can bind in the high temperature environment of single micro-cells in cells.

The binding state between microtubules is generated by bioenergy. When the process of blood supply and oxygen stops, cohesion is no longer available, but quantum information is not lost. It can spread into the universe, exist and continue to function in some form. If the patient is saved, the information will be recaptured by the brain. Perhaps so, those who have near-death experiences can recognize the world around them when they are unconscious.

If this hypothesis is true, then the question is: Where does quantum process make consciousness come from? The answer, according to Prof. Penrose and some scientists, is from the Big Bang big bang. In this view, all forms of consciousness are created at the same time as the universe. And if the soul exists, it is also associated with the origin of the universe.

Reincarnation of the soul

Prof. Penrose's idea implies a mechanism for consciousness to continue to exist after the human body has died. But where will it go? According to Professor Hameroff: "If the sick person is not saved, consciousness will go into the universe and maybe one day another body will receive it again."

DOPS currently maintains approximately 1,400 records of cases deemed to be of this type. Most of them are children who remember their past lives. You can tell who you are before, where you live, what you do, how you look, and many other details.

Ian Stevenson, one of America's leading psychiatrists, the founder of DOPS began collecting stories of past lives from 1960. Among the documents he recorded, there were many cases of one child. babies are born with less in place of the wound they had in their previous life. Some are always obsessed with things, the phenomenon that caused death in previous lives.

Stevenson and his colleagues never confirmed that reincarnation actually happened. They just try to gather evidence about it. In science, these evidence may never be enough to confirm that the human soul exists after the death of the body and then reincarnates in a new body. But that does not mean that we can claim that there is no soul.