by chairman bill wrote:cavarka9 wrote:... could it not be possible that some of the people have memory structures in their brain out of pure chance but they are identical to the memory structure of another human being who actually lived or shall live some time in future ...
I'd never want to say something is impossible, but the potential connections in the brain are greater than all the particles in the cosmos. Added to which, these connections arise out of experiences & the creation of new 'action potentials'. They don't just arise through chance. So very, very, very, very, very unlikely. I think that was enough verys.
I have heard that quote enough, could you provide the source, how can there be more connections that all particles in the cosmos when the brain itself is made of particles, and we still have almost the whole universe left for us.
very's are still not enough, show me that it is impossible.
Or better provide the exact probable chances, but I dont know whether we have understood the whole science behind a particular memory
9% in the USA claim to have experienced a past life, compared to 7% of the sample in India. 
Chadha, Sahni & Alvarado (1987) compared with Palmer 1979, cited in Alvarado 1996. However the verified details are very different - 33% of Indian students had verified details of their accounts, compared with 5% of Americans. Indian students are also about half as likely to experience Out of the Body Experiences. 
Sanskrit is used a lot over here in discussions of consciousness, and that sort of thing, because it allows for a technical precision English totally lacks, or so I am told by people who know more than me 
Well, I wonder, why are people bringing such stuff up at this site ? Do they just want to make fun of "woopidity" or "stupid blondes" ? You're doing this at primary school, don't ya ? That's not enough to cope with the complexity of the philosophical and theological - or even esoterical (this one for the "stupid blonde") concepts the people on that show are talking about. This is especially true for the Indian cultural representatives talking about Reincarnation and Karma theory. To the people here thinking they're intellectually superior to the talkshow guests: read Carvarka's primer in Indian History of Philosophy and Science (yes !) above carefully. Have a look at Indian syllogism and mathematics. It's the SAME intellect which is thinking also about concepts like GOD, CREATION, EVOLUTION, SOUL, AFTERLIFE, REINCARNATION, JUDGEMENT, ETHICS, ACTION and - LOVE. Cause that's legitimate and very human to reason about even the "big" concepts - despite of having no clear answers. I guess, you know absolutely nothing about any of the mentioned terms - you seem to be not interested in a serious way at all. So, why bring it up ?
), suggests, you have experienced what I am talking about.
By the way: Tyrannical insulted Duchamp. He intended it and did it, knowing (nearly) nothing about modern conceptual art, without the slightest clue about its mechanics. Period. It's the same problem as in this thread. People who are insulting people they cannot really understand - or who are plain lazy to understand. The "Immigration Laws" of the US with its coupled "Mental Health Tests" seem to date back to the era of BIOPOLITICS, I mentioned above. The 1920ies and 1930ies. The immigration policy of New York was to establish scientific criteria to select only the "capable, powerful and potent" and reject the "unworth with inferior racial bloodline". Germany was very proud of its resolution of the "Laws of Nuremberg" about discrimination of Jews. Those laws qualified as scientifically based and ultra-modern. Also some US bureaucrats applauded the German biopolitical "progress" (until 1942 - at least officially). Well, what are Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and Bagram today ? Concentration Camps to insult, degrade, torture and "scientifically" study the "enemy", the people, the US government cannot understand - aka middle-eastern culture and mentality ?