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When We Die

How We're Wired

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The Nature of Consciousness

The hope for scientists like Olaf is that these experiments can help us better understand how we create our own sense of embodiment and ultimately the nature of consciousness itself. Not all out of body experiences in real life are caused by this mismatch between movement and vision. I think it's like when you're awake when you're like using a sense. Maybe attached with emotions or something that goes beyond just pure objectivitylike some sort of sentiment attached to it. So much of this work started. So balance. And we manipulate the concurrency of these two stimulations to see how they integrate or disintegrate in a brain. It will trigger some illusions or feel you're outside of your body.

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