Talk:Issues in Interdisciplinarity 2019-20/Evidence in the Afterlife

=GROUP BRAINSTORMING= Brainstorming of topics

TRUTH
Conspiracy theories - flat earth → business perspective and marketing the “truth”, personal truths versus group truths

POWER
Art → but which issues?

Surrogacy → who’s the mother? Biological perspectives (intention versus the actual DNA) versus legal perspectives versus psychological (if something is inherited or taught through social environment)

Euthanasia → ethical perspectives (is it ethical?), philosophy/religious perspectives (suicide → is looked down upon?), biological perspectives, legal perspectives

EVIDENCE
Legalisation of recreational use of marijuana in the UK→ sociological perspective (crime rate etc) → correlation graphs, looking at relations Interviews (for stereotypes and to look at the relationships within the community) Content analysis → how it’s played in the media → positive view vs negative view medical perspective (medicinal applications of marijuana, lack of evidence for long term effects) → empirical evidence/positivist evidence religious/historical perspectives (role marijuana has played in religions) → content analysis/biblical texts; historical perspective (e.g. historical reasons for alcohol being legal and weed not) → anecdotal evidence political perspective (what’s better for a city → drug crime, what’s considered “safe”) → other countries’ laws → business perspective, hemp as wood alternative, CBD

the existence of an afterlife: the Religion -Different religions → Heaven vs Hell, Christianity / Catholicism, Buddhism (reincarnation) science Psychedelic drug experiences Neuroscience: Brain is still alive after death; analysis of brain activity Law of conservation of energy (can link to environmental science) Philosophy Different philosophical persepectives on existence/non-existence of afterlife

Anthropology Ancient Egyptian cultures different fields: Sociocultural, biological, Archaeological, linguistic