So your invention is 4 octopus-like appendages mounted on your back, sensitive enough to do science experiments and strong enough to fight spider-themed vigilantes?

Is Jim Davis cool? I can’t really find anything, so that proves he isn’t MAGA at least.

I see this quite often, I suspect some default Gallery app just AI-upscales downloaded images without users’ knowledge. Someone downloads a thumbnail accidentally, it gets the AI treatment, you get major artifacting like this and they repost it somewhere else. I most often notice it on images of text, when all the letters are wobbly.

Yeah, but see, you’re just arguing definitions again. If it’s irreversible by definition, then of course it’s impossible to get back from it. But for all we know (and can detect), it’s possible to be in a state that is indistinguishable from “true death” (at least for a moment) and return to a state of life. So you can’t say with absolute certainty that those people weren’t truly dead, you can only argue after the fact based on your definition of “true death”.

And the same with “afterlife”: if they weren’t “truly dead” they couldn’t be in the afterlife when it’s defined as “the place you’re in when you’re truly dead”, but the afterlife would be completely unfalsifiable by that definition anyway, so who cares. They were in some state indistinguishable from death and still experienced something, call it what you want.

Again, I’m not saying NDEs prove the existence of heaven or whatever, but they are experiences people have when they’re super-duper close to death and that’s interesting. Is it the desperate hallucinations of dying neurons? Still interesting. So when you ask “why listen to these people when they’re clearly making shit up”, I answer “you can also make shit up if you’re clinically dead for a minute, I still want to hear it”.

Your argument hinges on death being irreversible, but you also dismiss all (potential) examples of “resurrection” with “well, you weren’t really dead then, huh?”.

Anyway, a near-death experience doesn’t even require an actual death, medical or otherwise. Now, would you see “beyond the grave” when you’re only mostly dead? Probably not, no, I don’t see why we should trust any of those accounts. But they’re still interesting experiences to hear about, they’re pretty rare and maybe we can learn something about the edges of life from them.

GTA VI looks so realistic, I can barely tell it from real life. Can I please leave the game now? Guys?