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    Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
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stephenw Wrote: (2024-04-08, 07:58 PM) -- I am not qualified to have an opinion on emergence of QM and Spacetime from deeper sources. -- I'm sure you are, just a bit of watching Nima's videos (http...
Posted by Max_B in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-04-09, 07:05 PM
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    Thread: Refuting Strong Emergence
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-04-09, 05:49 PM) -- Refuting Strong Emergence... "The fact that a brain is itself a part of our experience is overlooked, as is the possibility that such images and ap...
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    Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
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sbu Wrote: (2024-04-08, 04:49 PM) -- You still end up with something from nothing following this reasoning. wait Sciborg just claimed that’s impossible  :Wink: -- The point I was making concerne...
Posted by Max_B in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-04-08, 05:05 PM
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    Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
Post: RE: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and sp...

Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-04-03, 07:49 PM) -- The challenge I think is that there doesn't seem to be a clear reason a soul needs to learn "both sides of a crime" or anything else if it's a transce...
Posted by Max_B in Spirituality , 2024-04-04, 08:34 PM
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    Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
Post: RE: A new Guardian article on near-death experienc...

sbu Wrote: (2024-04-04, 09:52 AM) -- Sam Parnia tried to move the bar from anecdotal evidence to empirical evidence for veridical perception during NDES with his Aware studies. So far with scant succ...
Posted by Max_B in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-04-04, 04:31 PM
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    Thread: The Hum phenomenon
Post: RE: The Hum phenomenon

Started suffering with this in my bedroom in December. Seems like it's a standing wave set up in the room, and/or my ear. Any noise disrupts it temporarily, hence it's not noticeable during the day, t...
Posted by Max_B in Other Phenomena , 2024-02-14, 09:04 AM
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    Thread: NDE's
Post: RE: NDE's

Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-02-04, 05:39 PM) -- Interesting...though I am not sure intubation on scene would be performed in a manner equivalent to going in-and-out in the way described... -- You d...
Posted by Max_B in Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) , 2024-02-05, 03:12 PM
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    Thread: NDE's
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Max_B Wrote: (2024-02-02, 02:09 PM) -- Video posted to awareofaware by sixupgradeit! that I've not seen before, and which contained valuable extra first-hand information of Vicky Noratuk's NDE/OBE. W...
Posted by Max_B in Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) , 2024-02-04, 10:46 AM
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    Thread: Dualism versus (neutral) monism, consciousness, quantum mechanics [Night Shift split]
Post: RE: Night Shift: The Brain’s Extraordinary Work Wh...

Typoz Wrote: (2024-02-03, 08:54 AM) -- Regardless of the physical role of the brain or other organs - unexpected memories seem to play a role in some organ transplant cases too, there is a none-physi...
Posted by Max_B in Philosophical Discussions , 2024-02-03, 11:43 AM
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    Thread: Dualism versus (neutral) monism, consciousness, quantum mechanics [Night Shift split]
Post: RE: Night Shift: The Brain’s Extraordinary Work Wh...

stephenw Wrote: (2024-02-02, 08:29 PM) -- Here is a Kauffman addressing an "information space" as a category, with competence.  He extracts "the adjacent possible" as a place for creativity to happen...
Posted by Max_B in Philosophical Discussions , 2024-02-02, 11:39 PM
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    Thread: NDE's
Post: RE: NDE's

Video posted to awareofaware by sixupgradeit! that I've not seen before, and which contained valuable extra first-hand information of Vicky Noratuk's NDE/OBE. Worthwhile posting it here. https://www....
Posted by Max_B in Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) , 2024-02-02, 02:09 PM
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    Thread: Dualism versus (neutral) monism, consciousness, quantum mechanics [Night Shift split]
Post: RE: Night Shift: The Brain’s Extraordinary Work Wh...

stephenw Wrote: (2024-02-01, 04:53 PM) -- I think there are important points about memory.  The memory in a computer chip is accessed as a structural arrangement of encoded bits.  A biological memory...
Posted by Max_B in Philosophical Discussions , 2024-02-01, 05:41 PM
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    Thread: Night Shift: The Brain’s Extraordinary Work While Asleep
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-01-30, 12:35 AM) -- ...nothing in the material world can be said to hold mental content because all physical things have projections of meaning onto them. It seems to me ...
Posted by Max_B in General Consciousness Science , 2024-01-30, 07:43 PM
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    Thread: NDE's
Post: RE: NDE's

Valmar Wrote: (2024-01-29, 02:04 PM) -- and ignore the fact the consciousness completely ceases with cardiac arrests -- But as we know, experience doesn't seem to stop after all, hence there are qu...
Posted by Max_B in Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) , 2024-01-29, 06:00 PM
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    Thread: Dualism or idealist monism as the best model for survival after death data
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-01-29, 02:23 AM) -- I am actually more sure of Survival than having any knowledge of what that Survival is exactly like. To ideally clarify this, what is most convincing...
Posted by Max_B in Philosophical Discussions , 2024-01-29, 01:38 PM
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    Thread: Dualism or idealist monism as the best model for survival after death data
Post: RE: Dualism or idealist monism as the best model f...

Pity the poor buggers who have a distressing near-death experience, that doesn't fit into Greyson's NDE scale - because there are no marks available for distressing experiences. Hence these experience...
Posted by Max_B in Philosophical Discussions , 2024-01-28, 09:10 AM
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    Thread: Even After $100 Billion, Self-Driving Cars Are Going Nowhere
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-01-26, 07:25 PM) -- Yet there have been fatalities, and the people who stand to profit are not the ones who've been chosen to be part of the experiment? In another thr...
Posted by Max_B in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-01-26, 08:28 PM
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    Thread: Even After $100 Billion, Self-Driving Cars Are Going Nowhere
Post: RE: Even After $100 Billion, Self-Driving Cars Are...

Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-01-26, 05:38 PM) -- Oh there is almost a certainly a way to make a fully autonomous vehicle, but I don't think the current strategies can get there. There is some work i...
Posted by Max_B in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-01-26, 07:00 PM
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    Thread: Dualism or idealist monism as the best model for survival after death data
Post: RE: Dualism or idealist monism as the best model f...

sbu Wrote: (2024-01-24, 12:34 PM) -- I wish I could share your conviction. -- Depends on one's very specific definition of 'the brain is off-line'. But as Tim says, there are plenty of NDE OBE'...
Posted by Max_B in Philosophical Discussions , 2024-01-24, 02:26 PM
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    Thread: Some wisdom quotes on survival and the afterlife
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Typoz Wrote: (2024-01-21, 12:06 PM) -- Thanks, that is an interesting read. I should have replied yesterday, when my thought was fresh. The mention of 'Awakening' prompted a thought in me, on a th...
Posted by Max_B in Philosophical Discussions , 2024-01-21, 03:27 PM
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