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Thread: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fallacy and is it unfalsifiable?
Post: RE: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fal...
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2023-05-23, 01:37 AM)
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Yeah I don't see why the issue of amnesia is worse than the general forgetting we experience. How many people recall their time as a 2 year old?
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Thread: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fallacy and is it unfalsifiable?
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Merle Wrote: (2023-05-22, 10:22 PM)
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And now we have a crowd here.
I see a lot of responses, but nobody really addresses antegrade amnesia.
Are memories stored in the soul? If so, why does the s...
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Thread: AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are
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David001 Wrote: (2023-05-12, 07:04 PM)
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Interestingly enough, near the end of the first decade of AI hype 1980-1989 the cry went up that we need a concrete example of how AI can be useful. Someone ...
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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...
| Sad to see Skeptiko go down like this. But, for various reasons, conspiracy theories are becoming increasingly dangerous to society as a whole. They need less platforms to draw in the vulnerable. In a...
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Thread: AwareofAWARE blog author's new book
Post: RE: AwareofAWARE blog author's new book
| I am not familiar enough with the author to question if his intention was to push a particular religious view, but the matter of “BOL as God” seems like a valid metaphysical question. Perhaps not some...
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Thread: Mega-Thread: Contrary and Confusing Claims about Parnia, Greyson and more?
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Brian Wrote: (2021-01-16, 05:41 PM)
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BTW, has any evidence of this spam been shown to a moderator yet?
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The claim is pretty dodgy, unless the safety measures in his device really suck.
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Thread: Wave Particle Duality, the Observer and Retrocausality
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2020-11-29, 08:11 PM)
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This is reminding of the time he thought "field effects" were something to do with "immaterialism" rather than physics.
Why I am half-convinced he'...
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Thread: Wave Particle Duality, the Observer and Retrocausality
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| If nothing else, Steve is still a wonderful example of the Dunning-Kruger Effect. Bless that confidence.
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Thread: The Prophet
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2020-08-04, 09:06 PM)
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I think interest in these topics generally just runs in cycles. People - including myself - would leave the Skeptiko forums for months at a time only ...
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Thread: The Prophet
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tim Wrote: (2020-08-02, 12:40 PM)
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Stan, you may not have noticed but there really isn't enough of us anyway now to discuss much...even if you wanted to.
If you leave for good then it's another s...
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Thread: Does anyone take Super Psi seriously?
Post: RE: Does anyone take Super Psi seriously?
| If super psi is real, I am inclined to believe that it would take some degree of determinism to keep things “in check” and prevent the “spilling” of the phenomena from creating a chaotic setting. The ...
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Thread: Quora user claims to have 'solved consciousness' via AGI theory?
Post: RE: Quora user claims to have 'solved consciousnes...
| A rather odd premise it is... That the prophets of future religions could be machines that may outlive humans.
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Thread: Can retrocausality solve the puzzle of action at a distance?
Post: RE: Can retrocausality solve the puzzle of action ...
| It would still fall short of explaining Wigner’s Friend.
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Thread: Wigner’s Friend likes Digital Consciousness
Post: RE: Wigner’s Friend likes Digital Consciousness
| I’m not sure about “digital consciousness”, but it seems that if the conundrum of Wigner’s Friend is a fact, then we may need more than mere chance to keep things together. Because, if both of those c...
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Thread: Huffington Post article about a visit to a medium
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Typoz Wrote: (2019-10-07, 09:55 AM)
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Interesting, though this aspect gives me pause:
"Ever since I lost my mother, I have imagined visiting a medium for reassurance that she was still with me in...
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Thread: Psychology Today: Is Life a Dream?
Post: RE: Psychology Today: Is Life a Dream?
| If life is a dream, would psi be it’s equivalent of lucid dreaming?
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Thread: Surveying the landscape => A paranormal, religious future?
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One can’t help but remark that pulling oneself back into the physical world would make sense for some attractive places said to be haunted right here in town, such as a magnificent old ho...
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Thread: Quantum Darwinism, an Idea to Explain Objective Reality, Passes First Tests
Post: RE: Quantum Darwinism, an Idea to Explain Objectiv...
| Yeah... Here is the main issue: “The properties that survive...”
The discarding of properties wouldn’t be able to explain why two different observers can experience equally valid, if potentially conf...
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Thread: A plea
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ParapsychResearcher Wrote: (2019-07-25, 09:04 AM)
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And again, complete blindness to what prompted my response.
I note, yet again, the flagrant hypocrisy in your repeated objections to my making ...
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Thread: Locking threads??
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ParapsychResearcher Wrote: (2019-07-25, 08:53 AM)
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And it's amazing how blind you are to your own hypocrisy. But I'm beating a dead horse here.
'Is “Tim and his friends” a TV show? Oh, I sure ho...
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