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    Thread: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fallacy and is it unfalsifiable?
Post: RE: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fal...

E. Flowers Wrote: (2023-05-23, 12:10 AM) -- You are, at least, 10 years late to the debate. Back when Skeptiko was way (way!) different, the issue of antegrade amnesia was touched upon. In particular...
Posted by Sciborg_S_Patel in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2023-05-23, 01:37 AM
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    Thread: Skeptiko forums other than its show forum to be closed [split from: Happy fourth board anniversary]
Post: RE: Skeptiko forums other than its show forum to b...

I honestly wish the forum wasn't mentioned in the skeptiko thread. As Rick Archer had said a while ago, the inclusion and later domination of the podcast with conspiracy stuff has completely wasted th...
Posted by letseat in Other Topics , 2021-09-15, 05:12 AM
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    Thread: Wave Particle Duality, the Observer and Retrocausality
Post: RE: Wave Particle Duality, the Observer and Retroc...

E. Flowers Wrote: (2020-11-28, 10:13 AM) -- If nothing else, Steve is still a wonderful example of the Dunning-Kruger Effect. Bless that confidence. -- This is reminding of the time he thought "fie...
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    Thread: The Prophet
Post: RE: The Prophet

E. Flowers Wrote: (2020-08-03, 06:30 AM) -- What on Earth happened? I noticed that Max_B is gone. Many of the skeptics have jumped ship as well. -- I think interest in these topics generally just r...
Posted by Sciborg_S_Patel in Other Topics , 2020-08-04, 09:06 PM
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    Thread: The Prophet
Post: RE: The Prophet

E. Flowers Wrote: (2020-08-03, 06:30 AM) -- What on Earth happened? I noticed that Max_B is gone. Many of the skeptics have jumped ship as well. -- Don't know precisely, E Flowers.  But Malf didn't ...
Posted by tim in Other Topics , 2020-08-03, 10:36 AM
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    Thread: Quora user claims to have 'solved consciousness' via AGI theory?
Post: RE: Quora user claims to have 'solved consciousnes...

nbtruthman Wrote: (2020-05-24, 06:57 PM) -- Of course all this doesn't consider the intriguing notion that some sort of advanced AI system might one day be suitable for and be occupied by a nonmateri...
Posted by Sciborg_S_Patel in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2020-05-24, 08:19 PM
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    Thread: Can retrocausality solve the puzzle of action at a distance?
Post: RE: Can retrocausality solve the puzzle of action ...

Thanks. I found that interesting. One pertinent point is the reason why Bell dismissed the retrocausal explanation for "spooky action at a distance": "There’s a clue in a letter that Bell wrote to...
Posted by Chris in Alternative Views on Science (Evolution, Cosmology, Etc.) , 2020-01-29, 10:45 AM
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    Thread: Can retrocausality solve the puzzle of action at a distance?
Post: Can retrocausality solve the puzzle of action at a...

Taming the quantum spooks: Reconciling Einstein with quantum mechanics may require abandoning the notion that cause always precedes effect (https://aeon.co/essays/can-retrocausality-solve-the-puzzle-o...
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    Thread: Wigner’s Friend likes Digital Consciousness
Post: RE: Wigner’s Friend likes Digital Consciousness

E. Flowers Wrote: (2020-01-02, 06:38 AM) -- I’m not sure about “digital consciousness”, but it seems that if the conundrum of Wigner’s Friend is a fact, then we may need more than mere chance to keep...
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    Thread: Surveying the landscape => A paranormal, religious future?
Post: RE: Surveying the landscape => A paranormal, relig...

Seeking the essence of consciousness in the human brain (https://riverheadlocal.com/2019/03/24/seeking-the-essence-of-consciousness-in-the-human-brain-spirituality-or-science/) Quote: -- ...sa...
Posted by Sciborg_S_Patel in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2019-08-02, 03:04 AM
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    Thread: A plea
Post: RE: A plea

Chris Wrote: (2019-07-24, 09:41 AM) -- Rubbish. -- Great argument.
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    Thread: Has Skeptiko gone completely wacko?
Post: RE: Has Skeptiko gone completely wacko?

In fact there were three phases: 1 - Let's look at the data. 2 - The data's in. (Accept it or you're stuck on stupid.) 3 - Data schmata. I'm no longer interested in psi - it's all a conspiracy an...
Posted by Ninshub in Other Topics , 2019-07-20, 05:37 PM
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    Thread: Has Skeptiko gone completely wacko?
Post: RE: Has Skeptiko gone completely wacko?

Typoz Wrote: -- For me, there have been several points at which I noticed obvious shifts. Some were instigated directly by the site owner. But others were a shift in topics discussed, driven by forum...
Posted by tim in Other Topics , 2019-07-19, 01:12 PM
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    Thread: Commentary thread for tim's "NDE's" thread
Post: RE: NDE's

tim Wrote: (2019-07-09, 04:32 PM) -- For anyone interested Alan Pring's experience is here (bit sentimental for some but nonetheless genuine) -- The sickly music’s enough to put anyone off! I reall...
Posted by Stan Woolley in Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) , 2019-07-11, 10:44 AM
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    Thread: IONS X - the "moonshot" of the Institute of Noetic Sciences
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Chris Wrote: (2019-07-06, 08:37 AM) -- I have to say it reminds me far too much of the Soulphone (%E2%84%A2) for my liking - a claim that they're going to do something that is a million miles away fr...
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    Thread: NDE study by Kondziella and Olsen
Post: RE: NDE study by Kondziella and Olsen

Just to try to tie in the contribution of Alex and Skeptiko to the subject matter of this thread: Alex has, over the years, interviewed those who have reported an NDE (or similar), those who have been...
Posted by Kamarling in Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) , 2019-07-07, 05:20 PM
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    Thread: The SoulPhone™
Post: RE: The SoulPhone™

ME. Flowers Wrote: (2019-07-06, 08:02 PM) -- If spirits can be duped into “cooperating” trough an electronic device this easily, what’s keeping us from building a trap of sorts to keep them inside?  ...
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    Thread: Why do so many people hate modern art?
Post: Why do so many people hate modern art?

Why do many of us hate modern and contemporary art with such a passion? Here's an article (https://www.quora.com/Why-do-so-many-people-hate-modern-and-contemporary-art-with-such-a-passion) that quite ...
Posted by nbtruthman in Other Topics , 2019-01-21, 07:54 PM
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    Thread: Experiments Suggest Humans Can Directly Observe the Quantum
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E. Flowers Wrote: (2018-12-24, 06:35 AM) -- Yeah, but I would not bet on them. I'm fairly sure that if local realism is blown, which may happen sooner than not when someone figures how to close all t...
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    Thread: Experiments Suggest Humans Can Directly Observe the Quantum
Post: RE: Experiments Suggest Humans Can Directly Observ...

E. Flowers Wrote: (2018-12-19, 06:09 AM) -- I suspect that fitting anything involving retroactively changing the measurement -i.e. the delayed choice quantum eraser- in there would be difficult. The ...
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