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Thread: Banned from skeptiko.
Post: RE: Banned from skeptiko.
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Michael Larkin Wrote: (2023-12-02, 03:56 PM)
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Okay Tim. If I offended you in any way back then, I'm sorry. Let's let bygones be bygones now, forget it and move on.
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Absolutely and no need to ap...
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Thread: Canadian PhD student tackles musical medium Rosemary Brown
Post: RE: Canadian PhD student tackles musical medium Ro...
| Here's another video doc about RB:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYPsBqdQelc
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Thread: Canadian PhD student tackles musical medium Rosemary Brown
Post: RE: Canadian PhD student tackles musical medium Ro...
| The links are possibly only playable in Canada.
Here's a doc on Rosemary Brown:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX477Zo7otg
There are clips of Bomfim on youtube speaking and playing Brown. No...
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Thread: Meat diets vs. vegetarianism
Post: Meat diets vs. vegetarianism
| To be serious for once and giving my thoughts about this topic, I’m feeling rather confused and left with a kind of “ what the hell’s all this about?” type of vibe.
To be honest, only in the last yea...
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Thread: Why I Changed My Mind - Waney Squier
Post: RE: Why I Changed My Mind - Waney Squier
| Maybe there's a preference for things to be clearly-defined as for example a square or a triangle in geometry. We can all reach common understanding and agreement on what we mean in that case. But man...
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Thread: Dinosaur Extinction: The Nastiest Feud in Science?
Post: Dinosaur Extinction: The Nastiest Feud in Science?
| Dinosaur Extinction: The Nastiest Feud in Science by Bianca Bosker (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/09/dinosaur-extinction-debate/565769/)
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Thread: Darwin Unhinged: The Bugs in Evolution
Post: RE: Darwin Unhinged: The Bugs in Evolution
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Michael Larkin Wrote: (2018-07-23, 11:12 AM)
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As far as I understand it, in the dependency graph model, the underlying working hypothesis is that genes aren't...
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Thread: Donald Hoffman: In layman's language
Post: RE: Donald Hoffman: In layman's language
| I was just watching a longer interview which the above video is a clip of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds-7sMfJDUw
These are some notes I wrote down summarizing some of things he says:
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Thread: A debate over plant consciousness is forcing us to confront the limitations of the hu
Post: RE: A debate over plant consciousness is forcing u...
| I am not a vegetarian. I am too sensitive. I cannot stand putting a living thing in my mouth and crushing the life out of it between my teeth and then swallowing it. Nor can I stand slicing up a livin...
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Thread: What are you listening to?
Post: RE: What are you listening to?
| "He said the blinking lights had no rhythm." (http://psiencequest.net/forums/thread-possible-abduction-of-military-man?pid=17843#pid17843)
Sounds like those blinking lights needed a bit of Gershwin...
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Thread: Humor
Post: RE: Humor
| https://scontent-syd2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/33119992_2095677687421423_1923048151967596544_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=c8085cb74d2ea65104bfa8105ae3700b&oe=5BBE8A29
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Thread: Rupert Sheldrake Vid.
Post: Rupert Sheldrake Vid.
| Interesting interview with Rupert Sheldrake talking about Jordan Peterson and other things.
https://youtu.be/GtvjVRQN2hU
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Thread: As a doctor, I didn’t think much of acupuncture. Then the opioid crisis arrived
Post: RE: As a doctor, I didn’t think much of acupunctur...
| My experience with acupuncture has been amazing, and no, there was no "placebo effect". It was from crushing pain to no pain at all, and not once, but many times. Not only with me, but many students o...
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Thread: What are you listening to?
Post: RE: What are you listening to?
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mb9jlbiVF4
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Thread: Cosmopsychism
Post: RE: Cosmopsychism
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2018-03-20, 12:59 AM)
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What's energy?
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Technically, in physics, at least by the definition with which I'm familiar from high school and a bit at university, energy is the...
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Thread: Donald Hoffman: In layman's language
Post: Donald Hoffman: In layman's language
| I like and respect Donald Hoffmann but I sometimes have difficulty following his language because I'm not familiar with the scientific terms. Quite often he can be found in videos debating with other ...
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Thread: Cosmopsychism
Post: Cosmopsychism
| Is the Universe a conscious mind? (https://aeon.co/essays/cosmopsychism-explains-why-the-universe-is-fine-tuned-for-life)
by Philip Goff
aeon.co
Cosmopsychism might seem crazy, but it provides a...
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Thread: What theories of consciousness are falsifiable
Post: RE: What theories of consciousness are falsifiable
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malf Wrote: (2018-02-06, 07:32 PM)
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There’s much empirical evidence that the brain is, at the very least, heavily involved with the processing of, and interaction with, our environment.
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Thread: What are you listening to?
Post: RE: What are you listening to?
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Pollux Wrote: (2017-12-31, 01:56 AM)
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. At the time I (we) dint no what the word bollocks meant (non-english teens). But when we found out, and listened to this track again, we thought, as kids, it...
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Thread: High mental functioning despite brain injury
Post: High mental functioning despite brain injury
| A new paper (https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/360/2017/12/Discrepancy-between-cerebral-structure-and-cognitive-functioning-JNMD.pdf): Discrepancy Between Cerebral S...
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