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Animal magic: why intelligence isn’t just for humans


Consciousness science forum    No Replies

Sci, 2022-06-18, 05:54 PM

Animal magic: why intelligence isn’t just for humans

Phillip Ball

[quote]Some caution was warranted. If other animals behave like us, that’s no basis to assume that they do so for the sa

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Eckhart Tolle and the source of consciousness


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    12 Replies

Ninshub, 2022-06-18, 03:01 PM

Eckhart Tolle is a spiritual teacher, i.e. teaching about the art of living, rather than a metaphysician. But it's interesting in this video to hear him spell out his beliefs/knowledge about consciousness existing outside and prior to the physical realm (including the brain).

[video=youtube]https

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The Dodleston Messages


Ghost, poltergeist, and spirit forum    2 Replies

Typoz, 2022-06-18, 10:16 AM

I mentioned this previously in another post. It is by no means new, the events occurred around 1985-86 but I thought maybe it deserved its own thread.

https://history.howstuffworks.com/histor...ssages.htm

There is a fairly thorough video which describes the events here:
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Eliza Program


Consciousness science forum    9 Replies

Typoz, 2022-06-14, 09:17 AM

Yesterday I found various computer code for the Eliza program mentioned in another thread.

This is an exercise in nostalgia as the concept dates from 1966 though the code itself is recent.

I chose to download and run the C++ version from https://github.com/jeffshrager/elizagen....arch?l=c%2

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Links miss their target


Feedback and announcements    7 Replies

David001, 2022-06-14, 09:14 AM

Has anyone else noticed that if, for example, you have an alert and click on it, you rarely land at the relevant post?

Is that fixable in any way?


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Is Google's LaMDA AI sentient? There seems to be strong evidence to that effect


Consciousness science forum    115 Replies

Laird, 2022-06-13, 03:50 AM

Guys, this, if not a hoax, is pretty huge. A Google engineer has claimed that Google's LaMDA AI is sentient - and he's reproduced [url=https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient

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Ancient Concepts Made New: A Timeline of Food as Medicine


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    No Replies

Sci, 2022-06-10, 07:43 PM

Ancient Concepts Made New: A Timeline of Food as Medicine

Debbie Koenig


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Experts are predicting great str

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The dreams of animals


Consciousness science forum    14 Replies

Sci, 2022-06-08, 05:55 PM

The Dreams of Animals

David M Peña-Guzmán


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This pressure remains with us to this day. Even as scientific attitudes have shifted, it is not hard to find prominent scientists who adamantly be

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Philosophy of the Hard Problem


Philosophy of mind forum    55 Replies

David001, 2022-06-04, 05:19 PM

I have recently been involved in a philosophical discussion concerning Mark Soln's new book on consciousness.

I thought some might find this interesting:

https://selfawarepatterns.com/2021/02/25...ent-157840

Anyone who knows my name can f

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Consciousness, spacetime and the intelligence of nature


Consciousness science forum    No Replies

Sci, 2022-05-31, 07:10 PM




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Closing the second day of the 2021 ‘The Science of Consciousness’ conference, dr. Jacob Jolij

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