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Thread: Free will re-redux
Post: RE: Free will re-redux
| Are we all coming back? Is that a thing?
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Thread: Could psi have a materialist explanation?
Post: RE: Could psi have a materialist explanation?
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Dante Wrote: (2018-03-13, 05:33 AM)
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You told Valmar that he missed the point, but it seems pretty clear to me that you did. Humility is not dismissing out of hand other people's views, which in ma...
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Thread: Placebo
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Steve001 Wrote: (2018-02-27, 01:23 PM)
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I think the problem here is a misunderstanding because of the nature of this forum, what the word mind means and your indirect sourcing of the Noetic organiz...
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Thread: Correlation vs Causation
Post: RE: Correlation vs Causation
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malf Wrote: (2018-02-03, 08:16 AM)
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Sub conscious (or non conscious) processes?
What would you say?
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I don’t know the answer to that question, and I presume if we did a lot of our questions ...
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Thread: Correlation vs Causation
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fls Wrote: (2018-02-01, 08:57 PM)
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No idea what you’re going on about. I’m talking about direct experimentation, not playing around with models. For example, we think aspirin prevents some heart at...
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Thread: Call for retraction of "Feeling the Future"
Post: RE: Call for retraction of "Feeling the Future"
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ersby Wrote: (2018-01-08, 06:51 PM)
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I can’t say I’m hugely surprised by all of this. Notwithstanding the knee-jerk rejection from certain scientists who instantly reject any evidence in favour of ...
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Thread: High mental functioning despite brain injury
Post: RE: High mental functioning despite brain injury
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Steve001 Wrote: (2017-12-27, 09:23 PM)
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I really do get tired of hearing the flimsiest reasons remarkable brain functioning despite trauma indicates this is a problem for materialism. Such expressi...
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Thread: Vaccines
Post: RE: Vaccines
| Do we know how autism works?
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Thread: What is space - like most things, ultimately a mystery
Post: RE: What is space - like most things, ultimately a...
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Steve001 Wrote: (2017-11-26, 04:40 PM)
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Truly amazing something that can't be acknowledged by our senses turns out to be physical. Gee wiz I wonder if those immaterial things which our senses can a...
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Thread: Darwin Unhinged: The Bugs in Evolution
Post: RE: Darwin Unhinged: The Bugs in Evolution
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Steve001 Wrote: (2017-11-17, 12:24 PM)
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How in the hell did you misunderstand me? And I'm saying no such thing.
Since you seem to be greatly confused here's a link defining various uses.
I wro...
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Thread: Darwin Unhinged: The Bugs in Evolution
Post: RE: Darwin Unhinged: The Bugs in Evolution
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Steve001 Wrote: (2017-11-15, 12:44 PM)
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Scientists make just one assumption which is, Nature is comprehensible. DNA didn't just pop whole cloth into existence. This perspective which you despise so...
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Thread: Is Evil One of God's Tools?
Post: RE: Is Evil One of God's Tools?
| I don’t see why God also wouldn’t be a little bit evil. I’ve come to the conclusion that either God doesn’t exist, or is every bit as much evil and stupid as we are.
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Thread: Astrology?
Post: RE: Astrology?
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Chris Wrote: (2017-11-14, 03:51 PM)
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I suspect the software is now so complex that it has achieved sentience and free-will, and occasionally deletes some statements it disapproves of.
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Ah, so it’...
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Thread: Thomas Nagel's "What is it like to be a Bat"
Post: RE: Thomas Nagel's "What is it like to be a Bat"
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Paul C. Anagnostopoulos Wrote: (2017-11-09, 04:17 PM)
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You're the one tugging it. I'm simply saying that it's hard to believe that every conscious experience is a separate, unitary, all-of-a-piece ...
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Thread: Thomas Nagel's "What is it like to be a Bat"
Post: RE: Thomas Nagel's "What is it like to be a Bat"
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Paul C. Anagnostopoulos Wrote: (2017-11-09, 12:16 AM)
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Thinking about a tomato, I suspect that all the following sub-experiences come into play.
The color of tomatoes.
The color of tomato sauce.
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Thread: Darwin Unhinged: The Bugs in Evolution
Post: RE: Darwin Unhinged: The Bugs in Evolution
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Steve001 Wrote: (2017-11-07, 02:59 AM)
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He may be clueless. His first or so statement as I recall is QM is immaterial. Note QM ( Quantum Mechanics) also known as quantum physics is a branch of phys...
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Thread: Laypeople trump experts
Post: RE: Laypeople trump experts
| I think Linda’s objection is fair. There is a thread for this sort of conversation that I think people should contribute to.
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Thread: Laypeople trump experts
Post: RE: Laypeople trump experts
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tim Wrote: (2017-11-03, 08:08 PM)
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Why didn't you search out the answer yourself ?
I wasn't asking you for the answers, I was asking you what you meant by forces !
Steve said > "Thought" has ...
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Thread: Laypeople trump experts
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Steve001 Wrote: (2017-11-03, 05:05 PM)
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Read and become knowledgeable. Know that pure scientists only goal is to discover how things work.
By the way, no scientist is an authority which is more ap...
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Thread: Laypeople trump experts
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fls Wrote: (2017-11-03, 03:54 PM)
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To be fair, I didn't ask for examples of laypeople offering scientific explanations.
Yes. And my question was, which of the ways in which we pick and choose ...
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