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Thread: Why has this forum become so slow?
Post: RE: Why has this forum become so slow?
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2022-05-01, 12:24 AM)
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Ah not meant as a personal attack...
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Oh no, didn't feel like that... just maybe a side glance is all. :)
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Thread: Why has this forum become so slow?
Post: RE: Why has this forum become so slow?
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2022-04-30, 06:25 PM)
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If people want to shove politics into everything...
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If that was aimed at what I said, I only mentioned politics solely for the purpose for pointi...
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Thread: Skeptiko forums other than its show forum to be closed [split from: Happy fourth board anniversary]
Post: RE: Skeptiko forums other than its show forum to b...
| Since broadband became available to the world along with social media, I've been predicting (to myself, lol) that society on the whole is going to suffer from a major nervous breakdown if only because...
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Thread: Skeptiko forums other than its show forum to be closed [split from: Happy fourth board anniversary]
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Silence Wrote: (2021-09-22, 02:47 PM)
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The closing of all but his show forums may ultimately be its saving grace
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I'd liken that to making a sauce reduction, in that it concentrates the flavor ...
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Thread: Skeptiko forums other than its show forum to be closed [split from: Happy fourth board anniversary]
Post: RE: Skeptiko forums other than its show forum to b...
| That forum is like walking into an insane asylum.
When I discovered skeptiko, it was probably nearing the end of his run concerning consciousness/nde. I went back and listened to much of the first 2...
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Thread: What Is a Particle?
Post: RE: What Is a Particle?
| The use of the word particle makes me think the general public imagines these things as kinda little ball bearings.
Out of all the many qm physics books I've read, there was only one iirc, that actua...
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Thread: Some thoughts on the logic of 'Heaven would be boring' arguments
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2020-06-03, 08:43 PM)
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A whimsical aside. It occurs to me that Irving Berlin might have unwittingly composed a great allegory on the reincarnational journey of the soul, in his s...
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Thread: Subash Kak: Computers will never be conscious
Post: RE: Subash Kak: Computers will never be conscious
| What if you apply one of those thought experiments where, 'what would happen if you replaced an original part one by one', with a duplicate or in this case, an artificial part.
To make it quick with...
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Thread: Subash Kak: Computers will never be conscious
Post: RE: Subash Kak: Computers will never be conscious
| My thoroughly unscientific opinion is no. And any sort of semblance of machine consciousness would be programmed mimicry.
I'm thinking that a universe, and by its laws, allows for consciousness end...
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Thread: Enfield Poltergeist
Post: RE: Enfield Poltergeist
| Always been fascinated by this phenomenon. Listened to a couple podcasts recently about this new book and the case in general.
I keep thinking.... all it needs is for the moving of an object in an o...
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Thread: The Simulation Argument
Post: RE: The Simulation Argument
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2018-12-11, 04:30 PM)
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And finally, there is the reductio ad absurdum of the inescapable infinite regress of higher realities - if our realm is a simulation, then the higher real...
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Thread: Closer to Truth: Is Mathematics Eternal?
Post: RE: Closer to Truth: Is Mathematics Eternal?
| Anyone happen to watch that BBC series about whether math is invented or discovered presented by hot ginger mathemetician boffin, Hannah Fry?
No one knows. Some maths seem to apparently have been inv...
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Thread: New Skinwalker Ranch Documentary - Jeremy Corbell
Post: RE: New Skinwalker Ranch Documentary - Jeremy Corb...
| Watched it yesterday. What a piece of typical hyped up bullshit tripe that said and produced absolutely nothing of worth. Take any paranormal podcast over the past 10 years with skinwalker ranch as th...
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Thread: Christian belief and the value of the study of the shroud of Turin
Post: RE: Christian belief and the value of the study of...
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dpdownsouth Wrote: (2018-08-15, 06:43 AM)
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Yet it strikes me that some of our era's most interesting non-materialist ideas (pan-psychism, simulation hypo, Kastrup's Idealism, Process Philosophy) ar...
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Thread: String Theory May Create Far Fewer Universes Than Thought
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Steve001 Wrote: (2018-08-13, 11:39 AM)
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The sentence that is in bold. I had to do a double take when I read that. I do believe you are the first person I've read that has beyond just lip service co...
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Thread: String Theory May Create Far Fewer Universes Than Thought
Post: RE: String Theory May Create Far Fewer Universes T...
| Steve, great article!
I suggest a Level V.... Frank Tipler's Omega Point. Lol. Crikes, I happen to hear him on some podcast recently and also a debate with Larry Krauss. I remember Tipler waaay back...
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Thread: Christian belief and the value of the study of the shroud of Turin
Post: RE: Christian belief and the value of the study of...
| Always struck me as odd that the all knowing and powerful Oz's.... er, I mean God's..... behavior, suspiciously engenders a whole lot of human traits. :D
I find the whole judeo/christian/islam, got i...
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Thread: Any one catch skeptiko's Jason Louv "interview" lol
Post: Any one catch skeptiko's Jason Louv "interview" lo...
| Long time, no see. Don't know which forum this should go in, if at all. Haven't listened to his past number of interviews as I wasn't really interested in the subject matters, but I did catch this one...
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Thread: The Skeptiko forum and us
Post: RE: The Skeptiko forum and us
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Chris Wrote: (2018-05-28, 08:09 AM)
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Activity does seem to vary quite a lot from day to day. There was a time a week or two ago when it was difficult to keep up with all the stuff that was being po...
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Thread: The Skeptiko forum and us
Post: RE: The Skeptiko forum and us
| Haven't posted in many many months....well, once the other day. Come by for a look every once in a while and wanting to engage but when I see a lot of threads sitting weeks with no activity, its like ...
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