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Bryon Ehlmann

['Member']Joined: April 04, 2019 at 18:26Last active: October 31, 2020 at 15:062 discussions37 comments
Location: Tallahassee, FL

Bio

Bryon K. Ehlmann is a retired computer science professor. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Florida State Univ. and was Full Professor at Florida A&M Univ. and Southern Illinois Univ. Edwardsville. He has published many research papers on database modeling and development and a book on the same subject—“Object Relationship Notation (ORN) for Database Applications: Enhancing the Modeling and Implementation of Associations,” Springer (2009). In retirement he enjoys exploring his wider interests in science, philosophy, and religion, seeking to employ an open mind and his analytic skills to better grasp our amazing world.

Favourite Quotations

"...almost the whole world is asleep...only a few people are awake, and they live in a state of constant, total amazement."—Joe Versus the Volcano, the movie (1990)

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In: The Impact of the Natural Afterlife on Religion and Society  — view comment
Newton's domain was the observable universe, my domain in the article includes the after-life, quite a difference. The after-life is not observable an...
August 31, 2020 at 16:38
In: The Impact of the Natural Afterlife on Religion and Society  — view comment
First, quoted from the article: In my statement regarding the NEC as a default after-life, I'm explicitly now raising the possibility of some supernat...
August 31, 2020 at 00:13
In: The Impact of the Natural Afterlife on Religion and Society  — view comment
Page 62 in the article:
August 29, 2020 at 15:38
In: The Impact of the Natural Afterlife on Religion and Society  — view comment
It relates in the sense that, as the article indicates, the natural afterlife could serve as an intermediate state between life and some faith-based, ...
August 29, 2020 at 14:33
In: The Impact of the Natural Afterlife on Religion and Society  — view comment
And what, if anything, happens between the time of death and the time of reincarnation?
August 29, 2020 at 12:46
In: The Impact of the Natural Afterlife on Religion and Society  — view comment
It is addressed in the article. Dreams and NDEs before death can override any last wakeful moment.
August 28, 2020 at 18:02
In: The Impact of the Natural Afterlife on Religion and Society  — view comment
You state "I think you’ve provided a plausible theory but not a proof for it." If you think this way, you should point out specifically a flaw in the ...
August 28, 2020 at 17:59
In: The Impact of the Natural Afterlife on Religion and Society  — view comment
Timelessness can never be perceived, either before-life or after-life.
August 28, 2020 at 17:42
In: The Impact of the Natural Afterlife on Religion and Society  — view comment
To: substantivalism and tim wood and others of like mind I'm not interested here in debating with those who don't understand or appreciate the essence...
August 22, 2020 at 20:10
In: The Impact of the Natural Afterlife on Religion and Society  — view comment
It seems obvious you didn't read the article, so I won't debate you on the points you make.
August 22, 2020 at 16:11
In: The Impact of the Natural Afterlife on Religion and Society  — view comment
You don't say why "it would become its own hell." Remember, the natural afterlife is timeless, thus it can't "become" anything, it's static and so "is...
August 22, 2020 at 12:30
In: Theory of Natural Eternal Consciousness  — view comment
My point was that a sudden spike just prior to death is not the same as a spike followed by a gradual decrease in brain activity representing "interme...
May 01, 2019 at 19:28
In: Theory of Natural Eternal Consciousness  — view comment
Have you seen many scientific studies that support notion that NDEs result from the process of the brain shutting down and are seen as a sudden spike ...
April 29, 2019 at 19:15
In: Theory of Natural Eternal Consciousness  — view comment
So you believe that when brain function deteriorates near-death below the threshold allowing for the NDE, the brain will somehow still manage to produ...
April 23, 2019 at 00:11
In: Theory of Natural Eternal Consciousness  — view comment
You state: "It is absolutely certain that the last states of neural activity one will experience will not be complex bliss but disorientation, confusi...
April 22, 2019 at 19:41
In: Theory of Natural Eternal Consciousness  — view comment
These questions are not relevant to the NEC theory. That is, it does not matter how the neural net functions to form the final conscious moment, how t...
April 22, 2019 at 18:35
In: Theory of Natural Eternal Consciousness  — view comment
???? I'm still not sure we disagree. My final word on this: True, a scientific theory can never be proven, only falsified. However, in the scientific ...
April 20, 2019 at 17:06
In: Theory of Natural Eternal Consciousness  — view comment
That is a totally different subject than what is being discussed here.
April 20, 2019 at 15:15
In: Theory of Natural Eternal Consciousness  — view comment
See also Einstein's "Time Dilation" Prediction Verified. I'm only saying that I use the term "verify" consistent with its common scientific usage.
April 20, 2019 at 15:00
In: Theory of Natural Eternal Consciousness  — view comment
Read the first few paragraphs of the article Einstein Was Right! Scientists Confirm General Relativity Works With Distant Galaxy and you should see ho...
April 20, 2019 at 14:42
In: Theory of Natural Eternal Consciousness  — view comment
If you read or studied my NEC Theory article more carefully, I believe you might understand why I have no interest in arguing with you on the issues y...
April 20, 2019 at 14:32
In: Theory of Natural Eternal Consciousness  — view comment
True, you can view a scientific experiment as focusing on trying to falsify a theory, but if the results confirm the theory, the experiment can be sai...
April 20, 2019 at 14:19
In: Theory of Natural Eternal Consciousness  — view comment
The term "verified" is widely used in connection with scientific theories. To illustrate its wide usage, the first sentence given for the definition o...
April 19, 2019 at 18:57
In: Theory of Natural Eternal Consciousness  — view comment
I use the word "theory" in my NEC article in its scientific sense. A scientific theory is an explanation of some natural phenomenon that is based on e...
April 19, 2019 at 15:12
In: Theory of Natural Eternal Consciousness  — view comment
See my post A Natural (vs. Supernatural) Eternal Consciousness and Afterlife, which is very relevant to this discussion. It defines Hypothesis 1 and 2...
April 16, 2019 at 21:08
In: Theory of Natural Eternal Consciousness  — view comment
You seem to have chosen to ignore much scientific research, which is referenced in my NEC article, that our consciousness is indeed divided into discr...
April 16, 2019 at 21:00
In: Theory of Natural Eternal Consciousness  — view comment
Words like "duration" or "persistence" are often used by those arguing against the NEC but viewing it from the wrong perspective, the material perspec...
April 15, 2019 at 19:02
In: Theory of Natural Eternal Consciousness  — view comment
You state: "The idea of a presence with no content , texture, contour, outline, features, is incoherent." I agree with you here, as I make clear in my...
April 13, 2019 at 14:19
In: Theory of Natural Eternal Consciousness  — view comment
"If there is no time, there is no change." True. "If there is no change, there is no contrast." True, at least there can be no contrast between two di...
April 11, 2019 at 00:14
In: Theory of Natural Eternal Consciousness  — view comment
I believe the brain is physical and the mind is a process that produces consciousness. Consciousness itself, however, is not physical and in regard to...
April 10, 2019 at 20:38
In: Theory of Natural Eternal Consciousness  — view comment
You can't just "simply think" when it comes to grasping the NEC. :wink: You have to think deeply, putting and keeping yourself in the mind (i.e., with...
April 08, 2019 at 20:00
In: Theory of Natural Eternal Consciousness  — view comment
The NED theory claims that death is a forever Pause relative to the dying person and a Stop relative to the living. Thus its relativistic nature.
April 08, 2019 at 16:49
In: Theory of Natural Eternal Consciousness  — view comment
But how do you know it ends?
April 08, 2019 at 16:36
In: Theory of Natural Eternal Consciousness  — view comment
So, when you are dreaming, at what point do you know that the dream is over and that you are no longer experiencing it? Answer: Not until you wake up....
April 08, 2019 at 16:28
In: Theory of Natural Eternal Consciousness  — view comment
There's the saying "Don't judge a book by its cover" and perhaps one shouldn't judge an article solely by its publisher. New ideas that challenge curr...
April 08, 2019 at 16:17
In: Theory of Natural Eternal Consciousness  — view comment
Elliott, M. A., & Giersch, A. (2016). What happens in a moment. Frontiers in Psychology, 6(1905). DOI: doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01905.
April 08, 2019 at 13:14
In: Theory of Natural Eternal Consciousness  — view comment
I very much appreciate that you seem to be trying to grasp my theory instead of just readily dismissing it as ridiculous as is often done. I know it i...
April 07, 2019 at 20:01
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