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Valmar Wrote: (2024-01-29, 02:04 PM) -- The latest rhetoric I'm seeing from the Physicalist pseudo-skeptics is that despite cardiac arrest and cessation of breathing, brain activity still supposedly ...
Posted by tim in Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) , 2024-01-29, 04:54 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, 02:26 AM) -- Some of it, though I could admittedly do with a refresher... -- I read it years ago, Sci. Gave it away like I do (have done) with most of my books. ...
Posted by tim in Philosophical Discussions , 2024-01-29, 01:35 PM
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    Thread: Dualism or idealist monism as the best model for survival after death data
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Max_B Wrote: (2024-01-28, 09:10 AM) -- 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 distres...
Posted by tim in Philosophical Discussions , 2024-01-28, 03:25 PM
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    Thread: Dualism or idealist monism as the best model for survival after death data
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Silence Wrote: (2024-01-26, 03:38 PM) -- The bold is my (self imposed?) quandary. -- Silence Wrote: (2024-01-26, 03:38 PM) -- Air tight (or the equivalent of (absence of) absolute proof) is very d...
Posted by tim in Philosophical Discussions , 2024-01-26, 04:27 PM
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    Thread: Dualism or idealist monism as the best model for survival after death data
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sbu Wrote: (2024-01-26, 12:28 PM) -- I appreciate any evidence you can provide that suggests there is meaning to our existence. Eventually, it might accumulate enough to significantly challenge my cu...
Posted by tim in Philosophical Discussions , 2024-01-26, 02:47 PM
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    Thread: Dualism or idealist monism as the best model for survival after death data
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Silence Wrote: (2024-01-25, 10:58 PM) -- He wants it airtight and, at least to folks like sbu and me, things just don't seem airtight on this topic -- Air tight (or the equivalent of absolute proof...
Posted by tim in Philosophical Discussions , 2024-01-26, 12:01 AM
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    Thread: Dualism or idealist monism as the best model for survival after death data
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Laird Wrote: (2024-01-25, 04:26 PM) -- I don't suspect him of dishonesty, -- Maybe I should have said 'intellectually dishonest' (that's a more environmentally friendly kind of dishonesty). I mean h...
Posted by tim in Philosophical Discussions , 2024-01-25, 04:33 PM
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    Thread: Dualism or idealist monism as the best model for survival after death data
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sbu Wrote: (2024-01-25, 03:26 PM) -- I am not aware of any research that involves post-mortem biopsies that could be used to evaluate the extent of brain damage in patients who displayed late-stage l...
Posted by tim in Philosophical Discussions , 2024-01-25, 04:25 PM
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    Thread: Dualism or idealist monism as the best model for survival after death data
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Laird Wrote: (2024-01-25, 02:25 PM) -- Yep, he does (https://psiencequest.net/forums/thread-ai-megathread?pid=55000#pid55000): -- I just don't 'get it' at all. I don't see how we could ever create ...
Posted by tim in Philosophical Discussions , 2024-01-25, 03:55 PM
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    Thread: The science of consciousness after death
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Interesting, Sci ! If those are Stephen Pinker's observations of the (this) field, goodness me, he's almost like a caricature of a sceptic.
Posted by tim in General Consciousness Science , 2024-01-25, 01:18 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: (2024-01-24, 10:43 PM) -- but it is very unclear to me why he believes that AI - programs running on Turing Machine computers - can become conscious. -- I didn't know that, S...
Posted by tim in Philosophical Discussions , 2024-01-25, 01:02 PM
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    Thread: Dualism or idealist monism as the best model for survival after death data
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sbu Wrote: (2024-01-24, 08:59 PM) -- Funny, I read about Alexander Batthyany on Ian Wardell's blog today. I wonder if any of you are Ian? -- I don't think I am, sbu. I'm certainly not tim.
Posted by tim in Philosophical Discussions , 2024-01-25, 12:56 PM
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sbu Wrote: (2024-01-24, 06:46 PM) -- It's fundamentally more compatible to the observed relationsship between the brain and the mind. -- Terminal lucidity (as Sci mentioned) may be what you need, th...
Posted by tim in Philosophical Discussions , 2024-01-24, 07:41 PM
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    Thread: Dualism or idealist monism as the best model for survival after death data
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Max_B Wrote: (2024-01-24, 02:26 PM) -- there are plenty of NDE OBE's recalled by patients who are in cardiac arrest, and who are resuscitated on the hospital operating table. Quite bizarrely in my vi...
Posted by tim in Philosophical Discussions , 2024-01-24, 02:37 PM
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    Thread: Dualism or idealist monism as the best model for survival after death data
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sbu Wrote: (2024-01-24, 12:34 PM) -- I wish I could share your conviction. -- That's interesting, sbu ! I honestly don't know (now that is) why anyone wouldn't, leaving out academics of course and t...
Posted by tim in Philosophical Discussions , 2024-01-24, 02:16 PM
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    Thread: Dualism or idealist monism as the best model for survival after death data
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sbu Wrote: (2024-01-24, 09:00 AM) -- At least they don’t try to pretend that conscious(ness) doesn’t depend on what goes on in the nervous system. -- It doesn't. Consciousness is still there when t...
Posted by tim in Philosophical Discussions , 2024-01-24, 12:00 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: (2024-01-23, 06:21 PM) -- Is Chalmer's simply unaware of CORT cases & NDEs -- I think he is, yes. I emailed Chalmers many years ago to urge him to look at NDE's with respect ...
Posted by tim in Philosophical Discussions , 2024-01-24, 11:54 AM
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    Thread: AI megathread
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Typoz Wrote: (2024-01-19, 09:19 PM) -- DPD has disabled part of its online support chatbot after it swore at a customer. -- OMG ! It's becoming ....
Posted by tim in Other Topics , 2024-01-19, 10:01 PM
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    Thread: NDE Multimedia Resource Thread
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This is an excellent interview with Dr Michael Sabom, who collected some of the most striking data ever, in his (the first ever 1976—1981) prospective study of near death experience.  The interviewer ...
Posted by tim in Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) , 2024-01-16, 05:00 PM
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    Thread: A plausible reason for the dearth of non-Western NDEs?
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Kamarling Wrote: (2023-12-30, 08:57 PM) -- Now, within more restrictive belief systems such as Islam or Evangelical Christianity or Orthodox Judaism, the coming change will be resisted for sure. Perh...
Posted by tim in Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) , 2023-12-31, 11:23 AM
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