The call admits any researcher with a history of studies in their competent field and who can prove their answer.
Robert Thomas Bigelow, a billionaire from Las Vegas, offered a substantial sum of money to anyone who can answer an existential question.
The call allows any researcher with a history of studies in their competent field of at least five years and who can prove their answer.
Is there life after death? It’s Bigelow’s question.
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The real estate mogul is no stranger to the case, having founded the Bigelow Institute for Studies of Consciousness in June 2020, after his wife Diane Mona Bigelow, 72, died of leukemia.
How should the question be answered?
The initiative is awarded to those who present the evidence of their interrogation before August 1 with a 25,000-word thesis on the subject, which is closer to reality.
The winner will be announced on November 1 and will receive $ 500,000.
Second place will get $ 300,000 and the third place will get 150,000.
The judges to select the winners are: Dr. Christopher Green, psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Detroit Medical Center and Wayne State School of Medicine who worked at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Dr. Brian Weiss, known for regression theory in the past, and investigative journalist Leslie Kean.
A life full of tragedies
The Bigelow family became interested in consciousness studies after mourning the suicide of their son Rod Lee in 1992.
In search of consolation, they met the famous medium George Anderson, but did not get the answers they were looking for.
Failing to find many scientists who had seriously studied the matter, the couple offered a donation of $ 3.7 million to the University of Nevada in Las Vegas in 1997 to investigate it.
However, it had to close the program years later because it made no progress.