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Title: Can we interpret a dead person's final thought from their Kirlian aura?
Post by: ron123456 on 13/04/2019 19:41:58
If the Kirlian Aura is indicative of thoughts prior to electrical signal messages and lasts for three days after clinical death, then can we interpret a dead person's final thought ?
Title: Re: Can we interpret a dead person's final thought from their Kirlian aura?
Post by: Kryptid on 13/04/2019 20:11:18
If the Kirlian Aura is indicative of thoughts prior to electrical signal messages

I've never heard of this before. Where did you get this information?
Title: Re: Can we interpret a dead person's final thought from their Kirlian aura?
Post by: Bored chemist on 13/04/2019 21:34:32
If the Kirlian Aura is indicative of thoughts
It isn't.
Title: Re: Can we interpret a dead person's final thought from their Kirlian aura?
Post by: pensador on 14/04/2019 21:06:36
If the Kirlian Aura is indicative of thoughts prior to electrical signal messages and lasts for three days after clinical death, then can we interpret a dead person's final thought ?
I am guessing your average persons final thought boils down to either, "it is all over then, perhaps wishing they had done something in their life" or having gone to sleep at the time of their demise were not thinking at all. 

Edit WTF is Kirlian Aura
Title: Re: Can we interpret a dead person's final thought from their Kirlian aura?
Post by: Bored chemist on 14/04/2019 22:04:26
WTF is Kirlian Aura
A ripoff of this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirlian_photography
with a side order of lots of woo.
Title: Re: Can we interpret a dead person's final thought from their Kirlian aura?
Post by: evan_au on 14/04/2019 23:01:27
See: https://www.wired.com/2011/02/aura-portraits/

oops - crossover with Bored Chemist...
Title: Re: Can we interpret a dead person's final thought from their Kirlian aura?
Post by: alancalverd on 14/04/2019 23:58:49
The answer is yes or no.

Yes. You can measure, interpret, divine etc any damn thing you like from any phenomenon, real or imagined, be it a dream, the entrails of a chicken, or a Kirlian aura.

No. In the case of a dead person's last thoughts, there is no way of knowing whether your guess interpretation is correct.

But here's a clue. Whoever he is, and however he died, his last thought was not "I wish I'd spent more time in the office."

And another clue (a real one this time). An old colleague is a forensic phonetician. He gets called in by all sorts of services to determine whether, for instance, two intercepted voices are the same person, is the speaker stressed or faking it, etc. He speaks umpteen languages and recognises umpteen more. He tells me that, whatever the native language of the speaker, training takes over in moments of extreme stress and the last words on every cockpit voice recording are, always in English, "Oh sh1t!"  I've heard a few, beginning in German, Chinese, and Afrikaans, but always ending in English.