Neil deGrasse Tyson discusses the concept of subjective experiences, such as near-death experiences, and contrasts personal truths with objective truths. He explains that while personal truths may be deeply meaningful to individuals, they cannot be objectively validated and may vary depending on cultural, religious, or personal beliefs. Tyson emphasizes the importance of empirical evidence and scientific inquiry in determining objective truths, which are true regardless of individual perspectives. He also touches on the historical criteria for defining death and the potential psychological and physiological factors that contribute to near-death experiences, highlighting the need for critical examination and skepticism in interpreting such phenomena. Additionally, Tyson mentions anecdotes of individuals claiming out-of-body experiences during accidents, citing historical references like Montaigne’s account of being rear-ended while riding a horse.
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I know people who have near-death experiences and one of them was a teenager who drowned. Whoever does not believe and the Creator and the power of the universe after death is just a very sad person.
There is life after death. Our bodies are merely vessels for souls. Many scientists are not athiests anymore because they found out DNA has more storage than the most advanced computers. Look this up yourself.
he's going to have a real laugh when he dies some day and realizes that he's still conscious.
This guy is an ass clown on every subject…🤡.. Not all near-death experiences happen in the hospital..
After listening again I need to add some comments. No matter how smart you are or think you are no one has a clear knowledge of the possible existence of the human soul which may not need your brain to exist. I can imagine scientist 2000 years ago saying the world is flat very loudly as if to make it fact. However we’ve come to realize the world is not flat. And Nehl Degrassi you may be wrong .
Not a fan of this gentleman. Curious if he believes in God? Seems so skeptical of powerful heartfelt stories!
When i died last year i lay in a crushed truck upside down crushed and trapped covered in my fiances brains and blood. I left ny body and hovered about 25 feet over the truck and experienced some impossible shhhht..i didnt see any bright lights neil so back to the drawing board bro
I was 14 and I suddenly was about 50 feet over the van I was in. I was moving along overhead with the van and I could see the head lights illuminating the road ahead, I could see the power lines on the side of the road and all of trees behind the power lines. It was no more than 10 seconds before I free fell, and once I hit the van i woke up, and the guy next to me said I stopped breathing got really pail and he couldn't feel a pulse. Im not religious and I've always tried to find logical explanations as to why things happen, but this is something that I, or anyone else can ever really understand. My brain didn't make it up, it really happened
Thank you, thank you thank you, I am 71 years old and I have been saying that since I was about 10 years old, I was watching a TV show and noticed that the person laying on the operating table while they were awake, looked up and saw those bright lights, and I thought I wonder if that’s really the light people think they see when they die Anyhow well die and come back to life anyhow, I really enjoy your content and your channel although I do believe in God wholeheartedly, and that he is the creator, everything you tell me only supports my belief, but I have always been interested in science and quantum physics once I knew what it was, etc. the world around us is such an amazing and complex place how on earth anyone could ever get bored I don’t know.
So someone had to sit there waiting to see if the bell rang. Lol. How long?
Just think about it. He usually talks about the temperature and chemical composition of stars hundreds of light years away, aka no solid proof.
That's your one problem Neil … people do die and some come back or others have other experiences
I saw no bright lights. I saw the emt's perform cpr and then go to the paddles. I seen/heard him call out volts, 100, 200, 400, 600, 800. Flatline through it all. I came back as they were filling out the doa report. Official time gone was 2 min, 14 sec
Our best and brightest???
Sad that he makes light of scientific experience. Faith is real..
Not to worry, they have a vaccine that will fix it.
Not everyone who saw the light was dying in a hospital bed.
I used to respect his incredible intelligence, but this clip shows his lack of intelligence concerning near death experiences.
Neil sure is a doubting Thomas and is he in for a big surprise 😊
I like this guy. Seen a few of his shows. But many years ago one night aged 20 I was staying at a friend's house and one night in bed I became conciously aware that I couldn't and wouldn't breathe. I wasn't struggling to breathe, I wasn't physically active in anyway. I knew I wanted to breathe or I would die. Next thing I was across the room looking at myself in bed. NO LIGHTS! Next thing I jerked back into my body and began to breathe. No angels or demons or dead family nothing. It happened that's all I know.
People report seeing and feeling all sorts of things way beyond lights man
Now explain consciousness Neil. We are energy. Energy never dies .It can only transform into a higher state of existence.
Wow.
It's also where we get "saved by the bell", not the TV show
…but did you die Neil
??…😅
What about someone who "died" in a car accident AT NIGHT, and had their NDE there?
GOD is LIFE. NOT THE BODY OR BRAIN OR SO- CALLED MORTAL MIND.
Ahh Degrasse greener on the other side, brother. Don’t be fooled by your limited scientific studies. Life is way bigger than ur pride and misunderstandings. People die in dark places and go to the Light. What’s baffling is how he talks about it in all confidence on stage🤦🏾♂️ Time will show everyone about the so called Light.
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Degrassee your an idiot.
LIGHTS, BRIGHT LIGHTS! got me dying 😂
The likely hood that we cease to exist after death is overwhelmingly likely, just as we were before birth. I hope I am wrong, I want to continue. Doubt I will though.
Neil the Atheist needs to get Saved, before its to late, Death gives no warning when it Happens?
That doesn’t account for the people who can actively remember specific details about when they were deceased and claiming to be outside their body
I had two NDE.
Darkness, cave deep darkness and then nothing.
All these others are brain waves shorting out.
Talk about being in denial! Hahahaha 🤣😂
You have one huge surprise coming bozo!
I like whoever said that being dead is the same as what it was like before you were born
When Neil gets to heaven he’s gonna try to explain the solar system to god
Grass does not believe on life after dead clearly. I did from poison causing my blood coagulated and creating a heart attack. I did t even know I was in process of having it, just felt bad and throwing up. I Drow myself to emergency even and waited in room to call me while already shaking. Doctor when they checked my hear came telling me am getting a heart attack that it will happen there is nothing to stop it but to not worry that am in good hands. I was there on a chair and they gave me oxygen and then I just fall asleep what I thought. And I saw a while place. It was uniform white and not blinding white. Just while like a while sheet of paper. And in it about 20 feet away from me I saw y or 7 shapes of grays figure like made of fog. O face or details. And i know what they said and I talk to them in mind. And we knew each other like long lost friends and family. And they greeted me and one of them in particular was I know a person that just died 3 year earlier the spirit of that person and I remember being astound if that is her saying in my mind "Naya?" The of course I decide is not yet my time and everything moves backwards into a darkness and I can hear echo like in a movie of doctors and nurses talking and I can hear and recognize the voice of doctor who admitted me telling nurse in front to the right to give me 400mg of something. They their voices getting louder and more clear and I open my eyes. They removed the blood cloth later while I was coinsions going in through my hand with a wire to my heart and 3 h later I fell normal and wanted to go home. But that peace and absolute love feeling that I experienced in death lasted still for at least 2 hours after I came back. And then less strong for rest for rest of day but they kept me in hospital still 5 days for observation but basically I was fine. And 4 days later I was already running on treadmill and lifting weights in Gym. But I tell you this DeGrass is wrong here. That light was not centered anywhere. I was in an infinite white space, not a y blinding light. Just white like mild or white sheet of paper not having any particular side or corner where light would emit from or be stronger. And I saw gray shapes of 6 or 7 human shapes like beings standing in a line in front of me communicating with me in though which makes sense since not them nor me had a body or mouth in that dimension to comunicate and despite not seeing their faces or even details like fingers of hand or a y cloths, (they were just shadows like gray fog in white infinite space) of people who lived before and all close to me and radiating absolute love and peace and understanding. So to explain it as a light above in doctor office is ridiculous. Not to mention I was according to doctor who got me back brain death 2 minutes so no Brian activity to claim in was fantasy. You need brain activity to claim delusions or whatever. I was dead. So no it's not white light like front ceiling where youc would clearly then see source of light at some point being brighter and less around. No. And again I was brain death so try explain hallucinations without brain having a thing going on. And I later read about other people experiences and is very same. Even the gray fog like figures people see, the feeling of absolute peace and love and a white space where light is not a blinding light but just white space. And this bring I will say soups of loved ones who died before you greeting you. Or there being a point where you need to make a decision if you continue on and then I guess realy die for good and stay death in this life or return and I chose to return. It's too similar with what all others experience to dismiss is as hallucinations which can ot even happen when your brain dead. So guys yes there is this dimension we go when we die and we continue there to exists with those who went ahead of us there and some who where likely there all the time and never came to live. S d there is absolute peace and love there and regardless whatever you thing you did wrong in this life is all forgiven and unimportant and overwritten there with complete love and compassion for you for who you are.
Man i dislike how much he talks down to us. There is no need to have his tone of voice like that. Very punchable face. Get your science facts from brian cox. At least brian is happy to teach us with a smile and doesn't talk down to anybody.
Don't forget the fact that your eyes give you white vision when oxygen deprived
But what about those that are actually declared dead, but manage to come back? Like he said, there’s no brain activity anymore, so they wouldn’t register lights in their brain.
Just because a person doesn't believe,, doesn't make it any LESS true…
Most people who've had an NDE….
didn't believe in it until they had their own experience….
whats with the stupid music overlayed on the video?
I'm not sure why people are so convinced that there's nothing after death. If consciousness is energy, since when could energy get destroyed? Or even created? The "nothingness" before birth most people remember is just called having no memory of whatever did happen before it. However, I can almost certainly say that SOMETHING went on.
He's very smart but everyone who ever sed this kind of thing never had it happen to them,
Exactly. Maybe we enter into some dream state but people who get their head completely blown open probably just get the lights flicked off instantly.
He's bringing up survivor bias. Only people with "Near-Death" experiences report things because… They weren't dead.
We can't ask the fully dead what dreams they see.