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Facebook name change entertaining for Hebrew speakers


General off-topic forum    3 Replies

Typoz, 2021-10-29, 03:37 PM

The Facebook name change is entertaining for Hebrew speakers.

Meta: Facebook's new name ridiculed by Hebrew speakers

I don't speak Hebrew, but the text-to-speech option in Bing translate seems to c

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Reliving life?


General paranormal phenomena forum    2 Replies

Will, 2021-10-28, 08:14 PM

Not sure why this has been on my mind lately - curiosity, I guess - but: with all the other phenomena discussed on this board, is anyone aware of people who claim to have "relived" parts of their life? That is, anyone who claims to have found themselves in the past, in their younger body, and made n

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Neuroscience’s Existential Crisis


Consciousness science forum    2 Replies

Sci, 2021-10-28, 10:11 AM

Neuroscience’s Existential Crisis

Grigori Guitchounts

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...When I asked if a completed connectome would give us a full understanding of the brain, he didn’t pause in his answer. I got the feeling he had tho

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On the origin of minds


Consciousness science forum    3 Replies

Sci, 2021-10-26, 04:40 AM

On the origin of minds

Pamela Lyon


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The philosopher Daniel Dennett, among the earliest cognitive philosophers to in

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New Podcast, Reality Reminded


Consciousness science forum    No Replies

Sci, 2021-10-26, 12:50 AM

Reality Reminded

"We are exceedingly happy to be launching the [i]Reality Reminded podcast today, with acclaimed Dutch documentary filmmaker

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ID proponent William Dembski's idea of Biological Information


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

entangled_cat, 2021-10-25, 12:47 PM

Dr William Dembski is approaching the objection to evolution based
on a mainstream concept used in Cryptography and in Error Correction codes.

The idea of information is, that we can use probability analysis
to suggest abiogenesis without a creation agent is insanely improbable.

More to come


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Astrobiology is mainstream science while UFOs aren't


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

entangled_cat, 2021-10-25, 12:41 PM

So far, we are on the only planet we have found with life.

 There exists a science trying to figure out what life could look like elsewhere and where
given our huge constraint.

 It is debatable whether UFOs are aliens from elsewhere. But how to we
find them, whether or not they've found us?


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Want an energy transmission? Sign up!


Members' experiments    4 Replies

Mediochre, 2021-10-23, 09:08 PM

Hey everyone, I’ve been busy doing energy transmissions for people, can’t remember if I mentioned that before. I’ve been making good progress including what may be minor psychokinetic side effects during meditation. I’m going to try to do a stress test next week to see if my body can handle doing 4

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The Neuroscientific evidence against physicalism


Consciousness science forum    No Replies

Sci, 2021-10-23, 05:29 PM




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squids evolved their intelligence independently


Consciousness science forum    1 Replies

entangled_cat, 2021-10-23, 04:11 PM

Are they conscious?

https://bioone.org/journals/american-mal...1.51.short


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