The Feynman Experiment

[TalentSpotterPk]

Feynman went into an extra sensory perception tank. These are tanks where you float and you are in a very gloomy sort of a place. You feel that you are out of your body for sometime till you are in the tank.

Feynman described that he went into the tank and he felt that He had come out of his body. He feared the situation as he saw his body floating about. He felt that his mind was seperate from the body and he thought that he could not go into the body again.

After this a physicist asked Feynman ! What do you make of such an experiment ?

Feynman in the true spirit of a Scientist said :

" I was not conscious of violating any laws of Physics "

So this is the ultimate thing about which a Scientist would be very very clean is not to violate anything he knows about.


So I have couple of Questions :

1. Has anyone here experienced it ?

2. How does Physics of today explain this ?

 

[MenInG]

Feynman went into an extra sensory perception tank. These are tanks where you float and you are in a very gloomy sort of a place. You feel that you are out of your body for sometime till you are in the tank.

Feynman described that he went into the tank and he felt that He had come out of his body. He feared the situation as he saw his body floating about. He felt that his mind was seperate from the body and he thought that he could not go into the body again.

After this a physicist asked Feynman ! What do you make of such an experiment ?

Feynman in the true spirit of a Scientist said :

" I was not conscious of violating any laws of Physics "

So this is the ultimate thing about which a Scientist would be very very clean is not to violate anything he knows about.


So I have couple of Questions :

1. Has anyone here experienced it ?

2. How does Physics of today explain this ?

Is this similar to what we are supposed to feel when we die? An out of body experience?

 

[Sidilicious]

Is this similar to what we are supposed to feel when we die? An out of body experience?

Or this is because our mind allows us to. Or when we die, well, we just die and cease to exist.

 

[TalentSpotterPk]

Is this similar to what we are supposed to feel when we die? An out of body experience?

Well Bro since I haven't died yet so I cannot give you any evidence as I havent felt it.


But certainly this is our believe that when we die our soul which doesn't die leave our body and this relationship of body and soul ends. As in Surah e Younus word

Yatawaffakum is used and Quran expains it at other places that the death will be caused when soul leaves the body.


Now He Feynmn actually feared that He is dying and his body has got seperated. But when body gets seperated that Brain is also part of body. So from where he was thinking ?


Since Feynman was not a believer of a thing called Soul he did not say from where this thinking struck him ?


As a true Scientist and Physicist would not say something for which he has " physical " evidence.


Now my question still remains there. It's been decades so I want to know physicists explaining this phenomenon. Feynman just told his feeling. I am sure some Scientists would have given some reasoning.


I think there was a thread of PP last year which described a research of some people who survived severe Heart attacks and came back to life from the mouth of death. They described some feelings which give hint that there is indeed Soul but a Biomedical scientist will say hey blood supply to brain decreased and brain sugar levels dipped hence some illusions, hallucinations resulted in this.


Anyhow [MENTION=134230]gani999[/MENTION] is PHD is Physics if I am not wrong. We might give us scientific explanation of the phenomenon.

 

[gani999]

Anyhow [MENTION=134230]gani999[/MENTION] is PHD is Physics if I am not wrong. We might give us scientific explanation of the phenomenon.

Thanks for the mention. I will give it a try.

It is quite possible to experience extra sensory perception. It all has to do with altering the brain's chemistry. Psychadelic and narcotic drugs are well known to cause such effects, for instance.

Those who have had near death experiences while being seriously ill or while undergoing treatment after violent accidents or surgeries may have been administered with anesthetics or highly potent pain killers like morphine. Their experiences could well be the effect of the drug.

My mom had a near death experience a few years ago when she was rushed to the emergency following a cerebral hemorrhage. She said that she felt terrible pain, of the kind she had never experienced. While the doctors were attending on her, she suddenly felt like she was floating in the air and all the pain was gone. She felt great relief being like this, but the pain came back after she returned to her senses.

Of course, you do not have to take drugs or painkillers externally. The body itself, when receiving appropriate external stimuli, can release pain relieving chemicals like endorphins as a response to the said stimuli. Some of these can alter the chemistry of the body , leading to extra sensory perception.

Feynman also experimented with drugs like LSD and Marijuana. I wouldn't be surprised if the extra sensory tank experience had a 'chemical' angle to it.

I am not an expert in neurobiology but as far as I know, other than what is understood about the drugs binding to receptor proteins and their role in signal transduction, very little is known about how these drugs actually cause such effects.

Feynman was humble enough to admit that if physics did not have a rational explanation for these effect, then it was insufficient and needed further development. This only shows how broad minded the man was, rather unlike the vast majority of scientists today, who think that anything that their narrow knowledge doesn't explain deserves no explanation. I have worked with several such fools.

As for the concept of soul, there is no scientific explanation that I know of. Maybe the phenomenon needs further research and science itself has to be advanced to the point where it can provide an explanation, as Feynman advised.

 

[miandadrules]

DMT will give you such an experience, with or without sensory deprivation.

I've heard though not had it confirmed, that there is some research being done concerning the release of massive amounts of DMT from the pineal gland in near death experiences, which may explain what many people describe.

At the moment it's speculation as I haven't seen any concrete proof, but it's an interesting hypothesis.