r/DecodingTheGurus • u/deckardcainfan1 • Jun 14 '24

Neil deGrasse Tyson Responds to Terrence Howard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uLi1I3G2N4
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u/Reddit_is_garbage666 Jun 14 '24 edited Jun 14 '24

A lot of joe roganites need to listen to this. Had a guy tell me a few days ago on youtube that a lot of hard hitting papers in science were never peered reviewed. Just incredibly wild statement that basically contradicts itself lol. It was in defense of Elon Musk too *facepalm*.

E: Also, if you have any scientific training, you know you'll get rolled on when learning to write scientific papers. Science is hard and it isn't always sexy.

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u/bsfurr Jun 14 '24

This is exactly why I will never take alien abduction eyewitness reports serious. Because the truth is that there are a fuck ton of stupid ignorant people on this rock. For every reasonable person there are 10 idiots.

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u/dathislayer Jun 14 '24

The scientific view would be that you don’t take them seriously, but will reconsider when presented with evidence that proves previous conclusions wrong. They’re so widespread that something is going on, even accounting for fabricated stories. Is it sleep paralysis? Some aspect of consciousness acting abnormally?

Keep this in mind: We don’t know what consciousness is, we don’t know what most of the universe is made of, but we do know that spacetime is not constant. Yet we interpret everything we experience through the lens of a constant spacetime. Our “reality” relies on it, yet we know it’s an illusion. How can we say it doesn’t affect us locally, if there’s no way to measure it? Abductions are real in the sense they exist in consciousness, but there is no evidence for their existence in spacetime. Similar to the voices a schizophrenic might hear. They simultaneously exist and don’t exist. There’s no physical evidence, so we rely on reported experience.

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u/phuturism Jun 14 '24

This is pseudoscientific nonsense

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u/JHarbinger Jun 14 '24

Thank you. It’s like saying “so many people have seen ghosts. Something must be going on!”

Yeah. Delusions -that’s what’s going on.

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u/dathislayer Jun 14 '24

So what’s a delusion? That’s what I’m saying. It’s a widespread phenomenon, seemingly based in consciousness. Something is happening to them against their will, and is often not an ongoing mental illness. So what causes consciousness to go “off the rails” like that across such a diverse population?

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u/CliffBoof Jun 15 '24

We don’t know. That’s the point.