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  1. What Happens When We Die?

    in The looney bin

    Posted

    Absolutely correct, yet, we are still able to experience them ;)

    Sure, my friend. :) Consciousness is relevant for a very small percentage of our whole being.

    Between 1 and 5%, I would say.

    how else can we see from the top if the body is laying on the table?

    You can't be serious, mil_sub.

    Just take a good dose of LSD and look at what you become able to see.

  3. I miss this old rep i had

    in The Panerai Area

    Posted

    Nice Ssurfer, my grail 28 PVD :)

    Mine will hopefully be done when Rob and Jen come back from France...mmmmm, LOVE PVD... :victory:

    Rob will do a fantastic work, no doubt. :)

    I had mine completely re-PVDed by Kye, but now it is at my watchsmith as I messed up the keyless work while swapping the case.

    Hope to be able to post pics soon -- but my watchsmith takes ages. :(

  4. Fitting a 2893-2 in a DSN 6154 case

    in Watch Repair & Upgrade

    Posted

    The most relevant constraint is the movement thickness, cannon pinion excluded.

    The 2893-2 is very thin, 3.81mm thick.

    The 6497 is 4.50mm thick.

    I doubt that DSN uses true molnija movement, most likely he uses its china replica i.e. the CH190X movement, that is about 6mm thick.

    In the end, the case for the 6497 should be a better fit for your 2893-2.

    Still, you are left with a 0.69mm difference, that might make your stem misaligned.

  8. What Happens When We Die?

    in The looney bin

    Posted

    When your heart stops beating, there is no blood getting to your brain. And so what happens is that within about 10 sec., brain activity ceases - as you would imagine. Yet paradoxically, 10% or 20% of people who are then brought back to life from that period, which may be a few minutes or over an hour, will report having consciousness.

    ... that could happen in the first few seconds of their "death", or in the minutes of their reanimation.

    So the key thing here is, Are these real, or is it some sort of illusion?

    Correct question. Allucinations and dreams are not consciousness.

    So the only way to tell is to have pictures only visible from the ceiling and nowhere else, because they claim they can see everything from the ceiling. So if we then get a series of 200 or 300 people who all were clinically dead, and yet they're able to come back and tell us what we were doing and were able see those pictures, that confirms consciousness really was continuing even though the brain wasn't functioning.

    Incorrect assumption and bad experimental design. That would only confirm our unability to know at what extent the brain was functioning. Brain is a complex system made of many parts, modules and circuits. Some parts go out of work in death, or come back to work during reanimation, before other parts do.

    People commonly perceive death as being a moment - you're either dead or you're alive.

    Obviousy, completely incorrect. Intestinal cells are still alive, and intestinal villi are still moving, up to three days after the brain is completely dead. And also brain death is a matter of tens seconds or a few minutes, depending on the different parts.

    As during allucination and dream the perception of time is completely falsed, those tens seconds or minutes can be perecived as many minutes by the almost-dead or returning-from-death.

    So it's not a moment; it's a process that actually begins when the heart stops and culminates in the complete loss of the body, the decompositions of all the cells. However, ultimately what matters is, What's going on to a person's mind? What happens to the human mind and consciousness during death? Does that cease immediately as soon as the heart stops? Does it cease activity within the first 2 sec., the first 2 min.? Because we know that cells are continuously changing at that time. Does it stop after 10 min., after half an hour, after an hour? And at this point we don't know.

    The human mind and consciousness stop when all the brain parts relevant to mind and consciousness stop. Period. That is a process too, and we do not precisely know how much time it takes -- especially as we were not in knowledge of which brain parts are relevant to mind and consciousness until very recent times. All hints point to tens seconds though, or, at most, just a few minutes.

    Now, if you look at the mind, consciousness, and the brain, the assumption that the mind and brain are the same thing is fine for most circumstances, because in 99% of circumstances we can't separate the mind and brain; they work at the exactly the same time. But then there are certain extreme examples, like when the brain shuts down, that we see that this assumption may no longer seem to hold true.

    Either the author is confused or he just wants to promote his book. At first he correctly says that death is a process rather than an event, then he fails to apply the same concept to the brain and mind (that are the same thing) and he talks of brain shutting down like if it was a switch.

    Does the author asked himself why noone who had his head crushed by a truck came back from death to tell us about his experience?

    I suppose he would say it is because the victims had no mouth to speak anymore...

    Many years ago I too dreamed that I was dead and I was floating in thin air above my body, and I was seeing my body and the whole room from the ceiling.

    Does it mean that I actually died at that time -- or may it be a pretty common and aspecific dream/allucination?

    Thanks for pointing out this arcticle, mil_sub.

  9. Avitt DLC'd Pam 001B Project Completed! (Lots of Pictures)

    in The Panerai Area

    Posted

    Only the 195 was DLC.. all the others were PVD.

    here is the right answer.

    post-2837-1222192823_thumb.jpg

    So the saga continues...

    I have a feeling that, as DLC can be applied by Physical Vapor Deposition i.e. by PVD (reference), Officine Panerai may indifferently use either the term DLC or PVD to refer to DLC (not the opposite, though).

    It's just us that [incorrectly] use the term PVD as a synonym for TiN, TiAlN, or AlTiN coating applied by Physical Vapor Deposition i.e. by PVD. In reality, DLC is just a sub-type of PVD coating (especially when applied by PVD rather than by PACVD -- that, on its hand, is a special kind of PVD).

    That's why my initial question.

  10. So I screwed up on the first repair that I ever attempted.....

    in Watch Repair & Upgrade

    Posted

    I saved the full ajoesmith's post, pics included. I have it available as a zip file.

    But it is 40 Mb, while the max allowed size for attachements here is 2 Mb.

    I can send it via email.

    If anyone is interested, email me (or PM me your email address if you do not yet know my email) and I'll send you it.

    It is saved with firefox -- unsure it will work with IE. But the pics are all there as jpg files: so, even if you cannot open it as a htm page, you can have a good look at the pics anyway.

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