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    Thread: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fallacy and is it unfalsifiable?
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Brian Wrote: (2023-06-25, 03:05 PM) --  You make statements about the physical brain but the necessary foundation is missing, i.e. how it is possible for "stuff" to produce awareness.  Without explai...
Posted by Merle in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2023-06-25, 04:45 PM
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    Thread: Desperation - the scientistic materialists strike back against PSI
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A new PSI-debunking article: Disquieting Features of Two ‘Confirmatory’ Psi Studies by Patrizio Tressoldi, at https://davidfmarkscom.wordpress.com/2022/09/18/disquieting-features-of-two-confirmatory-p...
Posted by nbtruthman in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2022-09-21, 05:03 PM
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    Thread: Skeptical Attempts to Dismiss Psychic Phenomena
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"I have seen these people go to the ends of the earth and beyond, conjuring fictional narratives so that they never, ever have to concede. I’ve seen this from garden variety skeptics on the Internet a...
Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2021-10-29, 12:40 AM
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    Thread: If qualia is real, why does it have to be paranormal
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Maybe this helps? Is not the one really being fooled the new born infant? The illusion of self awareness sneaks up on this patsy slowly in the first months of life. Its hyperplastic sensory system hyp...
Posted by malf in General Consciousness Science , 2021-10-24, 07:44 PM
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    Thread: If qualia is real, why does it have to be paranormal
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malf Wrote: (2021-10-24, 06:43 PM) -- That said, I’m generous enough to think you understand Sparky’s point perfectly well enough, but have retreated into linguistic pedantry as a form of rhetoric de...
Posted by Steve001 in General Consciousness Science , 2021-10-24, 07:36 PM
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    Thread: Double slit experiment - just bouncing particles?
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Kamarling Wrote: (2021-09-05, 02:21 AM) -- Yes, I tend to agree. I doubt that science can be debunked, only scientific theories. Bloodletting and leeches were once considered scientific but only beca...
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    Thread: Double slit experiment - just bouncing particles?
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Sparky Wrote: (2021-09-04, 10:32 AM) -- That is not "debunking science", science is a method. If you want to show some scientific assumption is wrong, you would have to use the same scientific metho...
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