Eternal Life

Scientists Will Study Eternal Life -

Immortality Research Projects Funded

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Ever since the beginning of time people all over the world have speculated if death is the end or perhaps the beginning of something new.

There are millions of people who find the mystery of eternal life fascinating and want to learn more about what truly happens after death. There is no doubt that near-death experience is one of the most enigmatic events in a human life and this subject Is now getting a lot of attention among various researchers.

Some scientists have suggested that death could in fact be just an illusion and there are many scientific experiments that seriously question the term death, as we know it. This is one of several reasons why scientists want to explore issues dealing with death and immortality.

Now, the Immortality Project at UC Riverside awards $2.4 million to study all aspects of eternal life.

            Phenomena related to near-death experiences, immortality in virtual reality, and genes that prevent a species of freshwater hydra from aging are among the first research proposals funded by The Immortality Project at the University of California, Riverside.

Grants totaling $2.4 million will be awarded to 10 research teams from the United States and Europe in the scientific component of The Immortality Project, said John Martin Fischer, distinguished professor of philosophy at UC Riverside.

The recipients were selected from among 75 proposals, which were reviewed by a panel of seven judges drawn from the disciplines of neuroscience, biological science, philosophy, and psychology.

The research should push forward the frontiers of knowledge about death and immortality in various ways," Fischer said.

For example, "I expect that we will advance our understanding of the prospects for increasing human longevity and of the ability of certain creatures (hydra) to achieve a kind of immortality by reproducing themselves; that we will achieve a more refined evaluation of the nature, significance, and impact of near-death experiences; and that we will gain a better understanding of the relationship between our 'commonsense' or 'natural' beliefs about personhood, religion, or the deceased and our views about immortality.

"Hamlet famously said about death, 'No one comes back from that country.'

But one of the projects hopes that we can gain some insights about death and the afterlife from immersion in a virtual reality that depicts a kind of survival after death. The projects thus explore a fascinating and wide range of issues through, broadly speaking, empirical research into the great questions about death and immortality."

Preliminary results of the science research projects will be presented at a conference in June 2014. Final results, and the results of philosophy and theology research proposals to be funded in spring 2014, will be presented at a capstone conference in June 2015. Both conferences will be open to the public.

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