On 7/03/18 20:01, George Hammond wrote:
> IS MAURY'S GUILLOTINE DREAM
> A NEAR VISIT TO THE AFTERLIFE?
>
> Copyright George Hammond 2018

Don't worry George -- no-one is going to use this for anything, except
maybe as case study of persistent delusion, which would be fair use.
You've been banging on about your super-duper microtubules
(expialidocious?) for well over a decade now.

> It is a scientific fact that people spend 5 years total,
> nocturnally dreaming. Even so, the average person can't
> believe we could go into a 5 year trance when we die called
> Life After Death!

Well then, score one for the average person. BTW, there is no logical
connection between our normal nocturnal hallucinations and your
microtubule shtick.

> Of course the skeptic will tell you, the
> reason why is that "dead brains can't dream", and some
> people's brains get blown up by dynamite or struck by
> lightning and couldn't dream for a second, much less 5
> years.
> Well I'm here to tell you that used to be true, but no
> more! Modern science has discovered there is a solid state
> microtubule based FIOS system (fiber optic system) inside
> the neurons of the brain

No, there isn't. The brain is not a solid-state system; it's mainly
water. And there are no optical fibres there.

> operating on ultraviolet light
> which has a frequency 10-trillion times faster than our
> neural firing frequency.

UV is ionizing radiation (which is why one gets sunburn). You really
don't want it inside your neurones. Do you have a credible cite of
someone having detected UV radiation generated by a brain, living or
dead? I thought not.

> Long story short, this means that
> the Afterlife Dream could occur 10-trillion times faster
> than a nocturnal dream

Here again, there is no logical connection between what neurones do and
what light (such as UV) does. There is some interesting work on optical
computing, but an optical fibre can't do it.

> (although we would see it in proper
> time). 5-years of nocturnal dreaming would only take
> 5-microseconds in the FIOS system! In other words, the FIOS> system is so fast (speed of light)

Wait. So now you're saying it's the *speed* of the UV rather than its
*frequency* that makes the magic happen?

> that it can actually BEAT DEATH... any form of death!

I get it: you don't want to die. Few do. But your afterlife
wishful-thinking belongs in the same dustbin as the alchemists'
philosophers stone, the Hindus' reincarnation, the Christians'
rapture/resurrection, etc. etc.

> Having discovered all this, one interesting observation
> immediately comes to mind. Freud's Interpretation of Dreams
> mentions the study of "Alarm Clock Dreams". These are
> elaborate dreams that lead to a very loud ringing sound,
> such as a waitress dropping a stack of dishes in a
> restaurant, and one awakes to find it is actually the alarm
> clock ringing. They are quite common hence the name "alarm
> clock dreams". [...]
> Well, having now discovered the high speed microtubule
> FIOS system in the brain, it occurs to me that perhaps all
> these alarm clock dreamers are telling the truth, and what
> is actually happening is that in a startling emergency,
> human consciousness during a nocturnal dream, will drop
> momentarily to the Microtubule FIOS level if it determines
> that there is some alarming emergency that requires the
> invention of a long story in a very short time, in order to
> cope with a sudden unexpected intrusion of reality, such as
> an alarm clock going off, or a falling headboard. What
> happens apparently, is that in a "sudden death" type of
> scare while asleep and dreaming, our consciousness
> momentarily drops to the microtubule-FIOS level, and quickly
> fabricates an explanation of the intruding sound, or touch
> in the case of the headboard... and then the person wakes up
> not knowing that he has made a quick emergency trip to
> another level of consciousness while he was dreaming!
> Perhaps after a century the mystery of the alarm clock dream
> has finally been uncovered!

Not by you. There are actual academic papers on the subject. Googling
"alarm clock dream" came up with this example:

"Dennett recounts an alarm clock dream which he experienced as taking a
long time even though the alarm presumably sounded for only a short
time. His explanation of this paradoxical behavior of time in dreams is
that there actually is no dream experience but that unexperienced dreams
are composed directly into memory banks and are subsequently played back
on awakening."

[...]

My main criticism of your shtick is that if our brains can operate at
10-trillion times their normal capability then why don't they do it all
the time? What possible evolutionary advantage could there be for
saving this magic until death?

Until next time,

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