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Thread: Psience Quest Interview No. 4: Rudolf Smit and Titus Rivas
Post: Message from Smithy
| To all who have responded to Titus Rivas' mails information about my heart attack of a few months ago.
15 September 2018
Dear all,
Thank you so much for all the nice well wishes regarding...
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Thread: Psience Quest Interview No. 4: Rudolf Smit and Titus Rivas
Post: Latest news on Smithy
| The latest news about Rudolf is that his condition continues to improve. Last weekend he was allowed to go home to see how well he would do. As far as I know, they told him yesterday whether he could...
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Thread: Psience Quest Interview No. 4: Rudolf Smit and Titus Rivas
Post: RE: Written interview with Rudolf Smit and Titus R...
| I recently got another phone call from Rudolf, telling me that he stays at the rehabilitation center Het Zonnehuis now. He's slowly improving, step by step, with exercises to recover his walking skill...
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Thread: Psience Quest Interview No. 4: Rudolf Smit and Titus Rivas
Post: RE: Written interview with Rudolf Smit and Titus R...
| Dear friends,
After my latest update on Rudolf's well-being, we talked on the phone twice.
Both phone calls were short, because he gets tired very quickly.
During the first phone call he a...
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Thread: Keith Augustine interview
Post: RE: Keith Augustine interview
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Hjortron Wrote: (2018-08-14, 02:15 AM)
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Yes. Just as the firmness of the keyboard I am currently writing on is ultimately an illusion, as is the firmness of the illusion of the brain. The problem h...
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Thread: Psience Quest Interview No. 4: Rudolf Smit and Titus Rivas
Post: RE: Written interview with Rudolf Smit and Titus R...
| Hello everybody,
I received a new message from Miny. This time it is actually positive :) : Here it is:
"Since yesterday [Tuesday], Rudolf's condition is improving. They switched off the pulm...
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Thread: Psience Quest Interview No. 4: Rudolf Smit and Titus Rivas
Post: Latest update
| I received news from his wife Miny earlier today. Things aren't looking very good, I'm afraid.
The open heart surgery was succesful, but afterwards, he ended up at the ICU again, because his heart ...
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Thread: Psience Quest Interview No. 4: Rudolf Smit and Titus Rivas
Post: RE: Written interview with Rudolf Smit and Titus R...
| The latest news is that Rudolf/Smithy received open heart surgery yesterday.
I'm still waiting for news about the outcome.
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Thread: Psience Quest Interview No. 4: Rudolf Smit and Titus Rivas
Post: RE: Written interview with Rudolf Smit and Titus R...
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Enrique Vargas Wrote: (2018-07-29, 10:36 AM)
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Thank you so much for the update, Please tell him we all are rooting for him. Keep us posted, please.
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Thank you. I wlll, Enrique.
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Thread: Psience Quest Interview No. 4: Rudolf Smit and Titus Rivas
Post: RE: Written interview with Rudolf Smit and Titus R...
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Valmar Wrote: (2018-07-29, 09:55 AM)
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Is it known what may have lead to his unfortunate heart attack, Titus?
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No, although the extremely hot weather (for Dutch standards) must have played a rol...
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Thread: Psience Quest Interview No. 4: Rudolf Smit and Titus Rivas
Post: RE: Written interview with Rudolf Smit and Titus R...
| Thank you all for the considerate comments.
Here's an update by Miny Potze, Rudolf's wife:
Rudolf is still at the ICU. Today (Saturday) he had his first meal after the heart attack. He's receiving a...
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Thread: Psience Quest Interview No. 4: Rudolf Smit and Titus Rivas
Post: RE: Written interview with Rudolf Smit and Titus R...
| Disturbing news about Smithy aka Rudolf H. Smit. He suffered a major heart attack yesterday and is still at the ICU of a local hospital.
Let's all hope and pray that he'll soon recover completely.
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Thread: Keith Augustine interview
Post: RE: Keith Augustine interview
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malf Wrote: (2018-07-20, 02:07 AM)
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Yep. She was talking to everyone, as would be expected.
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And what is the relevance of that?
Do you really expect Greene, Spetzler, Sabom, etc. to be so utte...
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Thread: Keith Augustine interview
Post: RE: Keith Augustine interview
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malf Wrote: (2018-07-18, 01:01 AM)
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This is fair enough. I’m staring at my kindle wondering whether to splash the cash :) I’m concerned that the book may be a very ‘one eyed’ approach, and your dem...
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Thread: Keith Augustine interview
Post: RE: Keith Augustine interview
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malf Wrote: (2018-07-17, 09:53 PM)
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There appears something special about this case (and perhaps a handful of others) which has resulted in so much attention, and continues to do so even almost 30 ...
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Thread: Keith Augustine interview
Post: RE: Keith Augustine interview
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Hjortron Wrote: (2018-07-16, 10:38 PM)
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Well, that is not the only way to interpret the survival data, however. I am an idealist and I believe that materialism is disproven by the data. I also beli...
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Thread: Keith Augustine interview
Post: RE: Keith Augustine interview
| Well, I'm leaving this non-debate, everybody! Good luck to all of you.
Titus Rivas
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Thread: Keith Augustine interview
Post: RE: Keith Augustine interview
| There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that suggests that consciousness is produced by the brain. There is a lot of evidence that consciousness may be influenced by the brain (and vice versa), as ...
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Thread: Keith Augustine interview
Post: RE: Keith Augustine interview
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Chris Wrote: (2018-07-15, 04:39 PM)
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No, I certainly wasn't trying to be funny.
In this instance, I think the question malf asked - when and to whom the patient first talked about her experience...
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Thread: Keith Augustine interview
Post: RE: Keith Augustine interview
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Chris Wrote: (2018-07-14, 11:16 PM)
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I suspect what malf was asking for was something like "Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die, p. 312, note 2", or whatever.
I think that - on the one hand - th...
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