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Informational Environment [split Veridical NDEs are a myth]


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    35 Replies

stephenw, 2025-10-02, 05:41 PM

@ sbu asks about an information dimension

Dimensions are a physical concept that enable a model for measurement in spaces.  An environment is a larger idea.  I would simply cite that there are three dimensions to an informational environment.  Interior information to an agent, exterior informatio

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Rune Soup: Travelling Ghosts Bent Spoons and the Science of Magic | Dean Radin


General parapsychology    11 Replies

Sci, 2025-10-02, 02:25 PM

Travelling Ghosts Bent Spoons and the Science of Magic | Dean Radin

Gordon White

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In this episode, Dr Radin returns to the show to talk to us about his amazing new book, The Science of Magic.

We look

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"Kindred sites"; inbound links (you can help)


Feedback and announcements    14 Replies

Laird, 2025-10-02, 09:51 AM

Hi all,

Despite that I've actioned everything canvassed in the SEO and site structure thread, our rankings on various relevant search phrases unfortunately haven't improved all that much in my

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A Basic Model for Mind in a Physical Universe


Philosophy of mind forum    No Replies

stephenw, 2025-09-26, 03:33 PM

This thread starts not with my own ideas, but with new theoretical ideas that can kick-start a change in the paradigm - the inclusion of information science as an equal to physics .  However, it is inspiring and posits ideas that are supportive of an Informational Environment.  If the computational

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Towards A New Physics Of Living Systems and Consciousness


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    1 Replies

Sci, 2025-09-22, 11:04 PM



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[color=#131313]Physicist and physician Dr. Anita Goel has designed the equivalent of the double slit experiment in a living system, to test if the nanomachines that read and write DNA could operate quantum mechanically. I

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The cell membrane as the ‘missing link’ for the evolution of consciousness


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    1 Replies

Sci, 2025-09-19, 12:46 AM

The cell membrane as the ‘missing link’ for the evolution of consciousness

Prof. John Torday, MSC, PhD 

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While Prof. Torday agrees with Federico Faggin that q

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deep brain activity during NDE's?


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    3 Replies

Hopeful_Load_8643, 2025-09-18, 02:58 PM

Just bringing this up for discussion  Big Grin . I haven't really seen this type of argument anywhere on the site , so here it is:

[b]"I'm already there. I've been there for a long time. Long enough to review it all dozens of times, and I always arrive at the same conclusion. Although we don't know every

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Tony Cornell: The original ghostbuster (Book Review)


General paranormal phenomena forum    No Replies

Sci, 2025-09-14, 09:10 PM

Book review: The original ghostbuster

review by Dorian Lynskey, book by Ben Machell

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...Machell’s elegantly thrilling yarn encompasses the broad history of paranormal research in the UK. In the middle of th

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[Moderation split] Spontaneous Wakeful Out of Body Experience (OBE)


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    3 Replies

Laird, 2025-09-10, 04:20 AM

[I've split these moderation posts out of the original Spontaneous Wakeful Out of Body Experience (OBE) thread so as not to clutter and derail it.]

@"Max_B"#81, please let us know next time when you're

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Neuroscientist Speaks Out On The Hidden War On Consciousness


Consciousness science forum    1 Replies

Sci, 2025-09-08, 06:23 PM



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Physicist and neuroscientist Dr. Alex Gómez-Marín delivered a strikingly activist speech at the Science of Consciousness Conference (TSC) in Barcelona. He argued that we are now in a war on consciousness, with materialism

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