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Thread: Sam Harris Reddit thread
Post: RE: Sam Harris Reddit thread
| I'm always surprised seeing anyone on Reddit be friendly to a non-materialist/physicalist view, given that Reddit has a very large, very vocal militant atheist/anti-theist majority.
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Thread: Steven Novella claims this study on mice 'destroys dualism'
Post: RE: Steven Novella claims this study on mice 'dest...
| Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor in Mind Matters (https://mindmatters.ai/2020/12/has-neuroscience-proved-that-the-mind-is-just-the-brain/) has commented on Novella's new screed. He takes him apart as he sho...
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Thread: Steven Novella claims this study on mice 'destroys dualism'
Post: RE: Steven Novella claims this study on mice 'dest...
| I have heard it said Novella conflates dualism with 'vitalism' or something? Or he tries to compare it to that.
I'm personally surprised at how critical his comments section are of him from time t...
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Thread: Steven Novella claims this study on mice 'destroys dualism'
Post: Steven Novella claims this study on mice 'destroys...
| This came to my attention via that NDE Twitter account. Apparently, Novella posted last month about a recent study on the behaviour of mice and how their brain regions are involved in decision making....
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Thread: Our Solar System Is Even Stranger Than We Thought
Post: Our Solar System Is Even Stranger Than We Thought
| Our Solar System Is Even Stranger Than We Thought (https://getpocket.com/explore/item/our-solar-system-is-even-stranger-than-we-thought?utm_source=pocket-newtab)
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Thread: Do the Laws of Physics Rule Out the Paranormal?
Post: RE: Do the Laws of Physics Rule Out the Paranormal...
| A common argument amongst parapsychologists is that paranormal phenomena can be explained without inventing new science. (I think this is an effort to be more acceptable to mainstream scientise (Norma...
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Thread: Do the Laws of Physics Rule Out the Paranormal?
Post: Do the Laws of Physics Rule Out the Paranormal?
| Do the Laws of Physics Rule Out the Paranormal? (https://verbosestoic.wordpress.com/2020/02/10/do-the-laws-of-physics-rule-out-the-paranormal/)
Allan Cybulskie
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Thread: Jerry Coyne really doesn't like panpsychism.
Post: RE: Jerry Coyne really doesn't like panpsychism.
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malf Wrote: (2020-01-11, 06:22 AM)
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I really don’t see the problem with panpsychism. Consciousness is so ill-defined and nebulous that it’s hard to get worked up when someone postulates an (equally...
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Thread: Consciousness during CPR
Post: RE: Consciousness during CPR
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Raf999 Wrote: (2019-12-23, 05:43 PM)
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Honestly I just saw skeptics asking third parties about the rainbow, and getting answers that didn't fit in with Eben's story. The proponents then asked his fa...
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Thread: Consciousness during CPR
Post: RE: Consciousness during CPR
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Raf999 Wrote: (2019-12-18, 09:48 AM)
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Constant failures from studies, Van Lommel's being wrong on rhe zero EEG and blood flow during CPR, unrealible accounts on what is considered veridical OBEs, m...
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Thread: Trial will put humans into suspended animation
Post: RE: Trial will put humans into suspended animation
| Maybe? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Sounds a lot like what Pam Reynolds went through, so there's a chance. If they happen, whether we ever hear about them depends greatly on willingness to report them, as always.
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Thread: Science as we know it can’t explain consciousness – but a revolution is coming
Post: RE: Science as we know it can’t explain consciousn...
| Panpsychism is only the "simplest" theory if your metaphysical worldview is a Reductive Physicalist one...
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Thread: Subash Kak: Computers will never be conscious
Post: Subash Kak: Computers will never be conscious
| Why a computer will never be conscious (https://theconversation.com/why-a-computer-will-never-be-truly-conscious-120644)
Subash Kak
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Thread: Darwin Unhinged: The Bugs in Evolution
Post: RE: Darwin Unhinged: The Bugs in Evolution
| Some more amazing examples of insect mimicry (https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/photos/11-amazing-examples-of-insect-camouflage/dead-leaf-butterfly):
I would like to know the detailed history...
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Thread: Finding the root of consciousness [?]
Post: RE: Finding the root of consciousness [?]
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2019-10-02, 10:13 PM)
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I guess it's not clear to me what you're suggesting - surely there will be some aspects of the brain necessary for instantiation of a conscious human ...
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Thread: Darwin Unhinged: The Bugs in Evolution
Post: RE: Darwin Unhinged: The Bugs in Evolution
| A new, brilliant and expert take-down of modern neo-Darwinism has just come out.
Well-known Yale professor, leading intellectual and computer scientist David Gelernter recently rejected Darwinian evo...
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Thread: Finding the root of consciousness [?]
Post: RE: Finding the root of consciousness [?]
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Chris Wrote: (2019-10-01, 04:15 PM)
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Courtesy of David Metcalfe - Neuroscience News reports a paper in the journal Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience which suggests that cortical layer 5 pyramidal (...
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Thread: Darwin Unhinged: The Bugs in Evolution
Post: RE: Darwin Unhinged: The Bugs in Evolution
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Ika Musume Wrote: (2019-07-13, 11:39 PM)
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I absolutely admire Dr. James Tour! What I find hilarious about this video and others pertaining to him is that the arguments in the comments try their bes...
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Thread: The “computer” model of the brain is invalid
Post: The “computer” model of the brain is invalid
| How close is AI to simulating all the incredible things that happen in the brain? Answer: not even to the first step. Not even in principle.
From Why the Brain Is Not At All Like a Computer (https:/...
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Thread: Neurocosmology: physical source of the consciousness revolution
Post: Neurocosmology: physical source of the consciousne...
| Physical Origins of the Consciousness Revolution by James E. Beichler
Yale conference, Society for Scientific Exploration, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfbdMetpr28
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