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Ancient Footprints Push Back Date of Human Arrival in the Americas


Off-topic mainstream science forum    No Replies

Sci, 2021-09-29, 01:25 AM

Ancient Footprints Push Back Date of Human Arrival in the Americas

Carl Zimmer


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Ancient human footprints preserved in the ground across the White Sands National Park in New

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More Sloppy Reasoning about Survival.


General survival research    23 Replies

Smaw, 2021-09-28, 07:07 AM

https://journalofscientificexploration.o.../view/2251

An article from the new Journal of Scirntific Exploration. Here, Braude is talking about why OBEs cannot be used as evidence for survival. That's pretty much all he brings up, but I thought you guys might find it interesti

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Vedic Tradition and UFOs with Michael Cremo


UFO/UAP forum    No Replies

Sci, 2021-09-26, 01:32 AM




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Michael Cremo is coauthor with Richard Thompson of Forbidden Archeology. He is also author of Human Devolution: A Vedic Alternative to Darwin's Theory as well as My Science, My Religion – a collection of his scientific

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A critique of philosophical zombies


Philosophy of mind forum    1 Replies

Smaw, 2021-09-23, 12:48 PM

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2021/09/2...tions.aspx

I came across this on reddit today and I find it quite interesting. It's a critique of the intuitions that are used to frame the conception of philosophical zombies. Specifically, it says that the words

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Why I now believe parapsychology is a science - article bt Chris French


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    7 Replies

Smaw, 2021-09-23, 05:27 AM

https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2021/09/why-i...doscience/

Article by Chris French talking about why the methods of parapsychology make it a science, not a psuedoscience. He still doesn't believe any of it exists, but fair enough.

I'm suprised to see

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From London to Ancient Egypt: the Reincarnation of Dorothy Eady


Reincarnation forum    3 Replies

Sci, 2021-09-20, 11:24 AM

From London to Ancient Egypt: the Reincarnation of Dorothy Eady

Mona Abdou


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Dorothy Eady was [url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-an

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Scientific American article on IIT


Consciousness science forum    44 Replies

David001, 2021-09-19, 09:09 PM

This article is quite old (2015) but it is interesting because it questions Integrated Information Theory. The author is John Horgan of end of science fame.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cro...ciousness/

I didn't even know Scientific A

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The ethics of idealism


Connected philosophy forum (metaphysics, ontology, theology, ethics)    4 Replies

Sci, 2021-09-19, 08:48 PM

The ethics of idealism

Asher Walden


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Research suggests that there is a neurological foundation to the experience of social connectivity, and that it is[i] the same as the foundation of consciousness itself:

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Science and Sanity with Rolf Sattler


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

Sci, 2021-09-18, 10:32 PM



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Rolf Sattler is emeritus professor of biology at McGill University in Montrael, Canada. He is author of Organogenesis of Flowers, Biophilosophy: Analytic and Holistic Perspectives, and Science and Beyond: Toward Greater S

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Do animals have the concept of death and mortality?


Consciousness science forum    13 Replies

nbtruthman, 2021-09-15, 11:07 PM

Do animals wrestle with the concepts of death and mortality?

This writer claims there is a lot of evidence that at least some predator animals have a concept of death and mortality, something long assumed to

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