Psience Quest

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Courtesy of the Daily Grail, Scientific American has a blog post by Bernardo Kastrup entitled "Thinking Outside the Quantum Box", based on his paper, "Making Sense of the Mental Universe", published in Philosophy and Cosmology last year:
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/obs...antum-box/

The original paper is here:
http://ispcjournal.org/journals/2017-19/Kastrup_19.pdf

Philosophy and (of) Psychedelics Resource

Came across this great site: http://www.philosopher.eu

It's mainly a resource for panpsychism and Alfred North Whithead's thought (a good one), but has a wonderful page of links to articles / papers dealing with the intersection between psychedelics and philosophy:

http://www.philosopher.eu/psychoactive-philosophy/

Some of the topics covered:

Participatory Psychedelia: Transpersonal Theory, Religious Studies, and Chemically-Altered (Alchemical) Consciousness

Naturalizing Psychedelic Spirituality

The Hidden Psychedelic History of Philosophy

Psychedelic Information Theory

LOVE IT!

Andreas Sommer, on his "Forbidden Histories" blog, has a Question and Answer session with Ian J. Thompson, a theoretical physicist and admirer of Swedenborg who has written two books on science and spirituality, entitled Philosophy of Nature and Quantum Reality (2010), and Starting Science From God: Rational Scientific Theories from Theism (2011):
http://www.forbiddenhistories.com/sweden...-thompson/

One idea of Thompson's that I don't remember hearing before is this:
I think there will always be a ‘hard problem’ of consciousness, and can even imagine a recalcitrant scientist finding himself surviving death, only to try to describe beings in a spiritual world as non-conscious zombie-like systems of energy and force.

Andreas Sommer's "Forbidden Histories" blog has an interesting guest post by Joanne Edge about "Irritating STEM Bros" such as Neil deGrasse Tyson and Steven Pinker, and their misconceptions about medieval science and medicine:
http://www.forbiddenhistories.com/jo-edge_vs_stem_bros/

(2019-08-13, 03:29 PM)Chris Wrote: [ -> ]Andreas Sommer's "Forbidden Histories" blog has an interesting guest post by Joanne Edge about "Irritating STEM Bros" such as Neil deGrasse Tyson and Steven Pinker, and their misconceptions about medieval science and medicine:
http://www.forbiddenhistories.com/jo-edge_vs_stem_bros/

Courtesy of the Daily Grail - coincidentally, some of the themes in Joanne Edge's blog post are echoed in this short video from the BBC about a project to research records of comet sightings from Anglo-Saxon England:
https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/how-med...c/p07jljv5

(2019-08-13, 03:29 PM)Chris Wrote: [ -> ]Andreas Sommer's "Forbidden Histories" blog has an interesting guest post by Joanne Edge about "Irritating STEM Bros" such as Neil deGrasse Tyson and Steven Pinker, and their misconceptions about medieval science and medicine:
http://www.forbiddenhistories.com/jo-edge_vs_stem_bros/

On modern misconceptions about medieval science and medicine, here is an episode of the 2004 TV series "Medieval Lives," made by the late Terry Jones, taking the line that medieval alchemists and physicians weren't the fools that some people take them for. Allan Chapman also gets into the act at one point. Jones also makes a similar point about the achievements of medieval architects, the evidence of which is hard to deny: