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Yet Another Attempt to Explain Away NDEs


Near-death experience (NDE) forum    20 Replies

nbtruthman, 2021-07-05, 07:05 PM

Yet another clueless mainstream materialist neuroscience attempt to "scientifically" explain and debunk NDEs, to reduce them to some sort of physical phenomenon with neurological and evolutionary origins. Of course this must (and does indeed) complacently ignore as worthlessly anecdotal any and all

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Jeffrey Kripal on the UFO Phenomenon


UFO/UAP forum    No Replies

nbtruthman, 2021-07-03, 07:26 PM

An interesting new interview on the UFO phenomenon. I would only partly disagree with him - on the likelihood of the ET hypothesis applying at least to some subset of the sightings.

"[url=http://news.rice.edu/2021/06/30/jeffrey-kripal-on-how-to-think-about-the-ufo-phenomenon/]Jeffrey Kripal on ho

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The secret call of the wild: how animals teach each other to survive


Consciousness science forum    No Replies

Sci, 2021-07-01, 10:57 PM

The secret call of the wild: how animals teach each other to survive

Carl Safina

[quote]Cultural knowledge, passed from animal to animal, is key to how species

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Consciousness could be related to light


Consciousness science forum    No Replies

Sci, 2021-07-01, 09:23 PM

Consciousness could be related to light

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Quantum consciousness?Three significant proposals stand out in this field: first, the one formulated by Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff in 19

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Is human consciousness creating reality?


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

Sci, 2021-07-01, 09:17 PM

Is human consciousness creating reality?

Paul Ratner


Quote:Is the physical universe independent from us, or is it created by our minds, as suggested by scientist Robert Lanza?



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Rethinking the Biology-as-Machine Metaphor


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

Sci, 2021-07-01, 09:15 PM

Rethinking the Biology-as-Machine Metaphor 

Luke Shors


[quote]
None of this is accidental. Academic research from the early 1990s sug

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Another reason we may be alone in the Universe


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    6 Replies

nbtruthman, 2021-06-28, 11:38 PM

The latest research on the sunlight received on most detected planets in the "habitable zone" (where liquid water can exist) indicates that life may really be exceedingly rare in the Universe.

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"Photosynthesis

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US DNI report: "Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena"


UFO/UAP forum    4 Replies

Laird, 2021-06-26, 06:13 AM

I was just sent a copy of this report, dated 25 June 2021, and which can be downloaded from this page, but I haven't yet read it.


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Communicating through the “Collective Unconscious”


Consciousness science forum    1 Replies

Sci, 2021-06-25, 05:03 PM

Communicating through the “Collective Unconscious”

Prof. Victor F. Petrenko, PhD, PhD


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Prof. Petrenko is back, and this time he shows that we may be regularly, though implicitly,

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What’s out there when our brains quit telling us stories?


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    11 Replies

Sci, 2021-06-25, 03:45 PM

What’s out there when our brains quit telling us stories?

Hans Busstra


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In this interview with University of Oregon neuroscientist Prof. Marjorie Woollacott, journalist Hans

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