/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.1173571]

Philosophy major gal here. Inb4 there are no career options. I make 200 dollars a day as a dancer for a men's club. I double major in classics and philosophy at ASU because I enjoy it.

A professor and dear friend of mine recently confided in me a secret of his: he, like Socrates, has a daemon ( a voice in his head which guides him). He is very intelligent and more educated in science than most on this board. He claims that Aristotelian science is a wonderful tool but can never describe reality. To fully free oneself from Plato's cave one must understand the nature of consciousness. He told me when he had brain surgery and had NO brain function he was able to see and hear more clearly than ever before... how can this be if the mind is rooted only in the physical brain? He told me there are other cases of this and pointed me to this article:

http://www.popsci.com/sam-barrett/article/2008-10/first-few-minutes-after-death

I ask you so called "scientists" to explain this for me.

[Anonymous No.1173578]

I fart in your general direction philosodancergirl

[Anonymous No.1173582]

Nice troll brah

no, it's actually 0/10

[Anonymous No.1173595]

>>1173582
Not a troll. Why so quick to dismiss seemingly radical posts as trolls? There are many documented cases of patients with zero brain function describing events occurring during their "brain dead" period in vivid and accurate detail.

[Anonymous No.1173610]

>>1173595

Yeah and you're also a girl and a striptease dancer, sure

[Anonymous No.1173615]

>http://www.popsci.com/sam-barrett/article/2008-10/first-few-minutes-after-death
>hypotheses about subcortical activity
>measure with surface EEG
oh god please put these pseudoscientists out of their misery.

[Anonymous No.1173619]

>>1173595
[citation needed]

You cannot measure brain activity during cardiac arrest. Period.

[Anonymous No.1173629]

>>1173619

What he said. I'm willing to bet you are an overweight man who wishes to be the sexy dancing girl.

[Anonymous No.1173635]

>>1173571
>He told me when he had brain surgery and had NO brain function
Now how did they measure that? If he had no brain function he would be fucking dead.

[Anonymous No.1173651]

Don't they do brain surgery with the patient awake?

[Anonymous No.1173656]

>>1173651
correct

[Anonymous No.1173664]

bump

[Anonymous No.1173668]

Am I the only one who wants photographic validation of ops identity?

[Anonymous No.1173672]

>>1173668
Don't even bother, it's a fat guy.

[Anonymous No.1173722]

Try digging stuff about unsymmetrical brain activity. What that guy is referring to might be explained by having his perceiving still functioning, while his memory and ability to relate what he perceives to ideas might be at still at that time.

There is an interesting talk about this on ted.com a woman describes her first hand experience with a stroke and brain degradation

[Anonymous No.1173782]

Hi OP. I too am an exotic dancer who also works in the porn business to help pay for my Ph.D in Neuroscience. I can understand where you're coming from when it comes to getting cash to pay for school. Your professor friend is delusional. Don't listen to him. He is likely just trying to get into your pants. Probably one of those dorks who tries to pretend he is a "nice guy" when he is really just desperate to get some action. He likely made up that story to try to impress you. It's in you best interest to befriend some new people. Best of luck with furthering your education. You can do it!

[Anonymous No.1173793]

>Philosophy
>ASU
>gal

Oh god, you're off to a bad start.

Also, what the hell is "classics" as a major?

[Anonymous No.1173815]

Oh wow it seems like there are a lot of people like me on this site. I also make my money as an exotic dancer. I'm studying brain surgery though, but that is just for fun. I have operated on several people, and they all report that they have extrasensory perceptions during the surgery. Some say they feel like they are flying when I chart the lateral parietal cortex by electrical stimulation.

Also, dead salmon show a hemodynamic brain response sevral months after they've been dead. Pic related. This must mean tehy have a soul.

[Anonymous No.1173825]

>>1173793
omnes qui non linguae latina graecumque sciunt barbari sunt

[Anonymous No.1173831]

You know, there is already a well known method for experiencing impossible things, it's called hallucination.

Which of these is more likely?
-- Your thinkin' parts magically detach from your brain as you die.
-- The trauma of oxygen loss induces hallucinations.

Here's a hint: you can experience all kinds of fun things through oxygen deprivation (give it a try, I'll wait).

There is no "soul", no "aura", no "brain waves latching onto passing microwave radiation" (hehe, I like that one). It's just a bunch of mushy neurons that depend on blood flow to do their jobs properly.

[Anonymous No.1173836]

Jesus Christ. I'm an exotic dancer (but male), but I enjoy the work so I don't really mind, but I can tell you that you're going to a shit-tier university if your PHILOSOPHY teacher tells you something like that.

First of all, pretty much no professional is a Platonist these days (party due to Derrida, partly due to that, well, there's better theories these days) so he's probably just testing you to see if you can come up with faults within his arguments, secondly, if he in fact is serious, may I ask you what course you had him in?

[Anonymous No.1173852]

This is now an exotic dancer doctors of philosophy thread.

Pic related.- It's me. My name is Dr. Bambi Stripper.

[Anonymous No.1173860]

WE ARE MOVING INTO THE UNCHARTED TERRITORY OF DANCERS AND SCIENCE AND I LIKE WHERE IT IS HEADED.

[Anonymous No.1173865]

and this is why philosophy will never be as legit as the real sciences

[Anonymous No.1173866]

I like how this article seems to intentionally confuse its reader about the definition of "death" by using both "clinical death" and "brain death" interchangeably without specifying which it is talking about. How terrible.

[Anonymous No.1173868]

>>1173852
oh god all I can think is: UR DOOIN IT RONG

there isn't even anything under the microscope to look at.

Have I lost my sex drive? ;_;

[Anonymous No.1173870]

philosophy professor does not believe this stuff. religion troll thread detected.

[Anonymous No.1173875]

I just love to get naked for science boys. Being a stripper while studying my ass off to be a Dr. of Philosophy is the best. Here I am in the lab doing science. I just love being an incredibly hot woman on 4chan /sci/ boards because of all the attention.

[Anonymous No.1173880]

I'm studying neural separation at uni, and I fund my studies by putting my junk in a clear plastic bag and tying a small rope to it, then eating apples while I dangle the rope in a fish pond. It helps to make more money if you rub hot dogs on the rope beforehand. This is all accomplished in front of an audience of various mammals in cages, which are then subjected to various stimuli such as electric shocks and small doses of hallucinogens. I film all this, and then edit the best parts together and set it to an early 90's techno beat and burn DVD's of it which I then ship to Japan to cater to a small but dedicated market. I am almost a self-made millionaire, and am only 24. What have YOU done with your life?

[Anonymous No.1173883]

>this thread

[Anonymous No.1173884]

>>1173880
A+ post would read again.

[Anonymous No.1173886]

>>1173868
Oh, that is an old picture... back when I thought I could do science. I learned that I couldn't, so I became a Dr. of Philosophy instead. I don't like to cook very much, but I make a great stripper.

[Anonymous No.1173889]

>a voice in his head which guides him
so he's batshit insane?
explains the other things he said

[Anonymous No.1173891]

>this thread 

[Anonymous No.1173896]

>>1173825
sum in concordia

[Anonymous No.1173947]

>>1173880
I love you.

[Anonymous No.1173974]

>this thread    

[Biofag No.1174001]

>Philosophy major gal
>Inb4 there are no career options
>I make 200 dollars a day as a dancer

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Fuck off troll, also sage for stupidity