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Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
Post: RE: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and sp...
David001 Wrote: (2024-03-20, 04:39 PM)
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Well they certainly aren't rationalisations, more like attempts to understand the message that we seem to be receiving.
Items 1 and 2 are an attempt to co...
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Thread: Death Anxiety (but not what u think)
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Smaw Wrote: (2024-03-20, 09:02 AM)
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When I very first got into PSI related topics, NDEs whatever, I had horrible panic-disorders in regards to my mortality. A growing pain I guess that hits everyon...
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Thread: ABC News article rejects "spiritual or magical" characterisation of intuition
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stephenw Wrote: (2024-03-19, 04:01 PM)
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The stark difference between "science's probability tools" and "spooky" is ignored and in the background of your ambivalent answer.
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That's simply becaus...
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Thread: Does quantum mechanics beckon the end of naturalism?
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-03-16, 10:34 PM)
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I don't think so, at least as applied to the macro physical world of human experience. The basic laws of logic are endlessly, repeatedly found to be truths...
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Thread: ABC News article rejects "spiritual or magical" characterisation of intuition
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Laird Wrote: (2024-03-13, 10:56 AM)
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It's sort of a bait-and-switch: "Here's this spooky example of intuition, but we reject spooky explanations, so here we provide a rational explanation based on ...
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Thread: Does quantum mechanics beckon the end of naturalism?
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Smaw Wrote: (2024-03-13, 10:03 AM)
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This is what made me suspicious of it. Now I'm very much of the idea that quantum mechanics can undermine a lot of different ways that we percieve the world, but...
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Thread: ABC News article rejects "spiritual or magical" characterisation of intuition
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It's sort of a bait-and-switch: "Here's this spooky example of intuition, but we reject spooky explanations, so here we provide a rational explanation based on subconsc... uh, no, wait, it's just a co...
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Thread: Does quantum mechanics beckon the end of naturalism?
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sbu Wrote: (2024-03-11, 08:53 PM)
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I’m not sure how a (any) god is defined, but “unique transcendent incorporeal being” hits several check marks with me. So to me he talks about Classical Theism as...
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Thread: Does quantum mechanics beckon the end of naturalism?
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-03-11, 04:32 PM)
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But what is wrong with the classic god argument in your eyes?
And by "classic god" do you mean the arguments of Classical Theism?
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Thread: Does quantum mechanics beckon the end of naturalism?
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Brian Wrote: (2024-03-11, 02:15 PM)
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When physics comes to a full stop, maybe we should start thinking from non-physical angles. I know they don't prove anything but they might come up with intere...
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Thread: Does quantum mechanics beckon the end of naturalism?
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Even classical physics is stuck as evidence shows the universe must have started in a low entropy state and physicists don't understand how
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89Mq6gmPo0s
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Thread: Free will and obesity
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Surely there is a vast difference between claiming that we have no free will - as in the materialist conception of reality, and claiming that everything we do is under conscious control.
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Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
Post: RE: Night Shift: The Brain’s Extraordinary Work Wh...
stephenw Wrote: (2024-03-06, 04:10 PM)
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The problem of evil has been around a long time. During most of history the outcome of parsing the issue gives feedback that "god", as understood in our amb...
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Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
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Larry Wrote: (2024-03-06, 02:38 AM)
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Couldn't it be like a paradox? I know, it sounds like a cop out from one perspective. What about the views from and nde or the spiritual masters who see the per...
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Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
Post: RE: Night Shift: The Brain’s Extraordinary Work Wh...
Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-03-04, 05:30 PM)
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Yes, I recall an US Air Force veteran once saying that the idea people have soulmates is ridiculous because it implies some poor child ending up disab...
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Thread: Can Informational Realism Help Sort Out the Mind–Body Problem?
Post: Can Informational Realism Help Sort Out the Mind–B...
Can Informational Realism Help Sort Out the Mind–Body Problem? (https://mindmatters.ai/2024/03/can-informational-realism-help-sort-out-the-mind-body-problem/)
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Thread: AI megathread
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Brian Wrote: (2024-03-03, 11:57 AM)
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I remember using an AI image generator and discovering that paedophiles were using it to create child abuse images. I tried reporting those that I found but no...
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Thread: AI megathread
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I remember using an AI image generator and discovering that paedophiles were using it to create child abuse images. I tried reporting those that I found but nothing ever got done about it.
https:/...
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Thread: AI megathread
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US and China agree to map out framework for developing AI responsibly. Here's what you need to know (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-25/china-united-states-artificial-intelligence-ai-regulations/1...
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Thread: AI megathread
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Silence Wrote: (2024-02-17, 06:23 PM)
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While I share concerns with the ongoing evolution of AI tech, I find myself wary of being alarmist. I'm not sure this is fundamentally any different that man...
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