/lit/ - Literature

>>22162512
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is based.

>>22162519
indeed

>>22162512
>Can you recommend books, ideas, or thinkers that have solved this problem?
Arthur Schopenhauer and plato

>>22162512
it's an unsolvable problem, OP. read kant's critique of pure reason though

>>22162512
i don't think anyone can answer that

>>22162512
Why We Sleep has been show to be full of bullshit claims.

https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/

>>22162512
>Can philosophy answer this question?
Yes, the philosophy of NDEs already has. They say that in the beginning there was a single consciousness who thought all things into existence into its own mind. This consciousness is uncaused by anything else and depends on nothing else. So we are all one mind with no ability to ever contact anything outside of it. Elaboration by an NDEr: https://youtu.be/1UlrWwli9Q0

And NDEs are more real than this world, in every way. For example, they are more consistent experiences, illustrated well by this quote:

>"For me, life is sort of like the haunted house. When you come in, you know it's just an experience. It's small, it's just one night, right? So it's just this one life. You're eternal, you have billions of lives, so knowing that you're going to come in just for one to have an experience, though it may be judged as tough, or difficult, or scary, you actually chose it because you knew it was just going to be an experience, you know it's no big deal. You understand on the other side that this part, life, is actually the dream, and you just wake up after. It's no different than one dream you had last night, out of a lifetime of dreams. This life that you're having right now is just one, it's just a blip."

So just like life is more consistent than our dreams (dreams last a few moments, life has been the same for decades), so too is the NDE reality more consistent than life (life has been the same for decades, the NDE reality has been the same for forever, for way more than trillions of years). Here this point is elaborated more on:

https://youtu.be/U00ibBGZp7o

And it is instantly evident to NDErs that heaven is real too, even atheists:

>"It's real to us when we're in it, but once I was there in heaven I realized that's more real, that felt more real, and it made much more sense to me than anything here. This is kind of nonsensical at times. In heaven, it's so clear, so real, so rational, so logical, but yet emotional and loving at the same time. Immediately I knew that was real and this was not. Immediately."

From https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mysteries-consciousness/202204/does-afterlife-obviously-exist

So heaven is undeniably real.

There isn’t something. There is nothing. We’re not defining “nothing” correctly. Life is an illusion. Look into Buddhism. With “nothing” there is possibility.

>>22163516
Which is why the folks over at GoodReads rated it so highly. It's less about the science and more about how the science makes them feeeeeeeeel

>>22162512
the world exists because God willed it. simple as.

>>22163744
Most pop-science is really bad. It gets published for making big, sensationalist claims, and for this reason it is usually frauds who find success in the industry. There are absolutely no checks in place to assess whether they have used references correctly, and how credible the references are. So naturally it's just the people who are shameless enough to hawk their snake oil the most ardently that get their books into the charts. This is without even getting into how dodgy the science journal system is, and how devastating the replication crisis is, so even if they do use citations correctly, it's extremely difficult to assess the credibility of the studies being cited, even if they're from big journals like Nature or Science.

>>22162512
>Harari
What’s that doing on that list? Like finding a turd in your dozen egg carton

>>22163751
Well then why did God willed the world existing?

>>22162519
Kuhn's paradigm model is slowly being rejected as ahistorical these days.

>>22162512
Why do things have reasons? Why can you ask why?

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.