u/eri-

We've always been focusing on contacting the afterlife. Because we consider ourselves the most capable of doing so.

But why, by now people like Einstein, Oppenheimer, Tesla, Socrates, Curie, Hawking and so on and so on are on the other side.

If they still exhibit consciousness, such minds would surely attempt to contact us. They haven't, so far.

Where is the pivot point, at which point do we concede its just not there. How many brilliant minds need to be on the other side for us to figure out the obvious answer, they aren't there any more