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Making Sense of Mysticism: When Wittgenstein Said the Unsayable


Connected philosophy forum (metaphysics, ontology, theology, ethics)    No Replies

Sci, 2023-03-24, 06:31 PM

Making Sense of Mysticism: When Wittgenstein Said the Unsayable

Lewis Coyne

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Wittgenstein’s mysticism is remarkable partly because he leads us there via an austere philosophy of language and logical analysis. Not onl

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A Brief History of Time is ‘wrong’, Stephen Hawking told collaborator


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Sci, 2023-03-23, 03:37 PM

A Brief History of Time is ‘wrong’, Stephen Hawking told collaborator

Robin McKie

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Typing on the computer-controlled voice system that allowed the co

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Even After $100 Billion, Self-Driving Cars Are Going Nowhere


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    167 Replies

Sci, 2023-03-22, 10:01 PM

Even After $100 Billion, Self-Driving Cars Are Going Nowhere

Max Chafkin

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Our driverless future is starting to look so distant that even some of its most fervent believer

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Our Ultimate Home


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    6 Replies

Raimo, 2023-03-20, 08:32 PM

https://www.multidimensionalman.com/Mult..._Home.html

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When we can no longer picture or imagine what it is like to have reunited with the ultimate source of

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Spirits in the afterlife - the mundane vs. the extraordinary


Afterlife contact forum (deathbed visions, ADC, mediumship)    19 Replies

Ninshub, 2023-03-19, 09:53 PM

I liked this video of Suzanne Giesemann's for a couple of reasons.

First, she addresses the topic of what spirits "do" in the non-physical. Apparently it's people's most requested question (it's usually the one I'm most curious about - if anything is possible, and there is no "time", what do you

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Neighbouring soul comes through a reading


Afterlife contact forum (deathbed visions, ADC, mediumship)    24 Replies

Ninshub, 2023-03-19, 08:32 PM

Just sharing something else that I watched and enjoyed this week.

Well-known medium Matt Fraser is describing and sharing a clip, through an online reading that had just occurred, where he's communicating with the spirit of a woman's deceased father. Then another spirit comes through, which is th

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Anxiety and the alarm in the body


General off-topic forum    7 Replies

Ninshub, 2023-03-19, 03:57 PM

This understanding and approach to anxiety really makes sense to me, as a long-time sufferer, and it's something I practice. There are various spiritual methods that are basically variants of this, but I think this MD and neuroscientist really articulates and nails it. (Btw, he speaks of an LSD expe

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Three cutting edge fundamental theoretical physics talks...


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Max_B, 2023-03-19, 01:32 AM

Three cutting edge fundamental theoretical physics talks - presentations too short unfortunately! But still great to watch!



Juan Maldacena, Talking about Quantum Aspects of Black Holes @7:30
Cumrun Vafa, Hollis, Tower of Light

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Quantum Bayesianism and the embodied agent


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    2 Replies

Sci, 2023-03-14, 09:30 PM



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In this presentation, Dr. Jacques Pienaar discusses the notion of an embodied agent in the context of Quantum Bayesianism ('QBism,' for short). QBism is an interpretation of quantum mechanics according to which the wave f

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Out-of-body experiences following the development of a posterior cingulate lesion


Out-of-body experience (OBE), astral travel, and lucid dream forum    3 Replies

Max_B, 2023-03-12, 07:42 PM

A somewhat muddled and confusing case report about a 46-year-old female, who underwent brain surgery. She previously reported that she had experienced OBEs several times a month before surgery. Her OBEs occurred indoors, for instance, she experienced OBEs when she was cooking in the kitchen. She had

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