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Thread: The illogic of Atheism
Post: RE: The illogic of Atheism
| I mean, if you are going to mock religion, at least do it in style ...
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Thread: Cosmopsychism
Post: RE: Cosmopsychism
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Silence Wrote: (2018-04-03, 01:49 PM)
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Isn't that what I suggested before you asked me to offer an opinion? Rather odd way to go about conversing (if that is what we're doing). ;)
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Thread: Cosmopsychism
Post: RE: Cosmopsychism
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Steve001 Wrote: (2018-04-01, 08:46 PM)
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From post 21: "Swirling flows of an infinite soup of proto logic out of which drifting islands emerge with unique ecosystems of physical laws..."
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Thread: Improbability Principle
Post: RE: Improbability Principle
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fls Wrote: (2018-02-26, 05:52 PM)
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So when you're at a party and it is discovered that two people in the room were both born on April 16, your first instinct is to estimate the probability of being...
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Thread: Medium (Tyler Henry) Reduces Skeptical Young Men to Tears
Post: RE: Medium (Tyler Henry) Reduces Skeptical Young M...
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Typoz Wrote: (2018-01-31, 12:45 AM)
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Depends on the context. Mediumship isn't my forte. But there is a certain hubris with which (so-called) super-psi is rolled out as a jack-of-all-trades, in area...
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Thread: Medium (Tyler Henry) Reduces Skeptical Young Men to Tears
Post: RE: Medium (Tyler Henry) Reduces Skeptical Young M...
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Obiwan Wrote: (2018-01-30, 11:39 PM)
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I suspect it’s always lurking because it’s not falsifiable.
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Depends on the context. Mediumship isn't my forte. But there is a certain hubris with which (s...
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Thread: Improbability Theory
Post: RE: Improbability Theory
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Bucky Wrote: (2018-01-22, 01:02 PM)
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Arguments like the "law of very big numbers" and similar as mentioned in the OP. Those are great blanket statements to shut up ESP proponents, though in essence...
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Thread: Improbability Theory
Post: RE: Improbability Theory
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Bucky Wrote: (2018-01-19, 10:00 AM)
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To be fair the the largest body of experimental parapsychology shows tiny effects that are often criticized by skeptics as methodological errors.
On the other ...
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Thread: Darwin Unhinged: The Bugs in Evolution
Post: RE: Darwin Unhinged: The Bugs in Evolution
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Chris Wrote: (2017-10-17, 09:56 PM)
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That doesn't quite make sense to me. If there were physical laws we didn't know about, then wouldn't Darwinism be the result of the actual physical laws, not th...
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Thread: Darwin Unhinged: The Bugs in Evolution
Post: RE: Darwin Unhinged: The Bugs in Evolution
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Chris Wrote: (2017-10-16, 05:23 PM)
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Can I ask a completely ignorant question?
Is it possible to take a concrete example - for example the development of a particular biological structure - and ma...
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Thread: Why do you seriously consider psi?
Post: RE: Poll: Why do you believe in psi?
| Linda, this poll is so badly constructed that I refuse to participate. It misses out many possible alternative answers, including the one that I would have chosen. Rather than restricting it to single...
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Thread: Are the Fundamental Constants Changing?
Post: RE: Are the Fundamental Constants Changing?
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Bucky Wrote: (2017-09-28, 05:01 PM)
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It looks like they may be...
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This explanation seems to depend on quasars being what they are assumed to be, i.e. very distant, very bright objects. If they...
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Thread: What's wrong with panpsychism?
Post: RE: What's wrong with panpsychism?
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Michael Larkin Wrote: (2017-10-06, 12:52 AM)
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Source seems inscrutible, well beyond our present capacity to understand....
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Thread: Federico Faggin on consciousness and physics
Post: RE: Federico Faggin on consciousness and physics
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Bucky Wrote: (2017-10-05, 04:31 PM)
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Indeed Faggin is a very bright mind.
From taking a glance at various articles (some of which I think I already encountered years ago) I take it that he's a clas...
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Thread: What's wrong with panpsychism?
Post: RE: What's wrong with panpsychism?
| Well said, nbtruthman. That point has occurred to me too (particularly as an objection to some sort of Idealistic non-self-aware mind-at-large).
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Thread: What's wrong with panpsychism?
Post: RE: What's wrong with panpsychism?
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Michael Larkin Wrote: (2017-10-05, 05:25 AM)
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OTOH, Idealistic monism posits that intelligence (in the sense of highly complexified consciousness, eve...
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Thread: Federico Faggin on consciousness and physics
Post: Federico Faggin on consciousness and physics
| I came across Federico's work via a mention of it on Bernardo Kastrup's forum.
Subsequently I investigated his thoughts on his foundation's web site (http://www.fagginfoundation.org/category/articl...
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Thread: Are the Fundamental Constants Changing?
Post: RE: Are the Fundamental Constants Changing?
| The Fifth Law.
"Everything changes, except the first 4 Laws."
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Thread: Darwin Unhinged: The Bugs in Evolution
Post: RE: Darwin Unhinged: The Bugs in Evolution
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DaveB Wrote: (2017-09-23, 04:50 PM)
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Well shouldn't we consider first, if neutral mutations - which happen in a purely random way - can do anything significant, and if so how. I mean, the only thin...
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Thread: Darwin Unhinged: The Bugs in Evolution
Post: RE: Darwin Unhinged: The Bugs in Evolution
| If we can accept that "some other" is currently attempting to manipulate humankind (via Vallee's control mechanism or something akin to that), and we accept that this quite likely has been going on th...
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