[Open Mind]

I have had a couple of readings from mediums that used specific language ...for example one gave a correct unusual surname with a correct unusual street name and the number of people who once lived in a house on that street ... all correct .... I had attended a funeral of a person who lived on that street years earlier........ clearly beyond what 'cold reading' can obtain.

However these types of communication through mediums seems rare today. Perhaps psi has to leak from the unconscious through the subconscious into the conscious and the process is just a difficult one for certain types of information to survive that process.....

Should we really expect discarnates to still speak in declarative earthly language?

Skeptics (perhaps in a more left brained dominant pattern of thinking) probably do want different sort of information from mediums than say someone grieving an emotional loss .... skeptics understandably want specific names, door numbers, street addresses, telephone numbers ....what skeptics want is Declarative Information / Memories ....however this could turn out to be a logical mistake too.

Declarative Memory means expressed through spoken (or written) words/symbols .... examples include language, numbers, mathematical symbols or other languages such as standard musical notation etc. .....

However we do not drive the word 'car' to work ... the laws of nature are not created by actual numbers, mathematic formulae.... nor do musical notations make actual music ...and so on. .... the value of the declarative memory is sharing explicit information with others by explicit shared meaning, symbols are a language.

Now *if* it is true telepathy increases upon brain death (as claimed in some NDEs and by some mediums) declarative memory is not essentially important after brain death ....... the individual mind/personality could survive with just long-term memory, procedural memory and qualia, etc

Note that long-term memory is not stored in language of indirect symbols i.e. not stored by year , alphabetically..... as a classical computer system might do so.

Note that procedural memory e.g. How to ride a bike is not effectively communicated by language of symbols alone and must be experienced to be easily learned

Note that qualia, cannot be defined or understood without experience of the meaning.

Brain damage tends to cause loss of short term and declarative memory ..... much easier than qualia, long-term memory and procedural memory which are more durable ... alternatives to materialism have not been falsified.

Why do we earthlings think our regional languages of earth should be useful in another dimension / afterlife? A common claim in NDEs and by mediums is that other forms of communication such as telepathy increases upon brain death and dependence on spoken languages decreases. If we assume those claimants are correct, the brain must be filtering out telepathy from our earthly consciousness for some evolutionary advantage.