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Debate and Discussion about NDEs with Dr Jan Holden and Steve McRae


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OmniVersalNexus, 2020-12-15, 02:09 PM


Very interesting and lengthy discussion (nearly 2 hours long), with some criticisms of materialism/physicalism from both sides. Steve McRae seems to be quite open-minded but he does not believe in the supernatural/paranormal apparent

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Hume’s Syndrome: Irrational Resistance to the Paranormal


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    1 Replies

Sci, 2020-12-14, 07:28 PM

Hume’s Syndrome: Irrational Resistance to the Paranormal

Michael Grosso


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One of the obstacles to progress in psychical research is irrational resistance to the phenomena. Among eighteenth-c

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I could really use some help on this.


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Hehexd1, 2020-12-14, 04:46 PM

Hi.
Hope you're all having a great day, cuz I'm definitely not.
Recently, I've done some internet digging on NDEs, and stumbled upon this.
[url=https://www.academia.edu/10060970/Occams_Chainsaw_Neuroscientific_Nails_in_the_coffin_of_dualist_notions_of_the_Near_death_experience_NDE_](PDF) Occam's

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Blade Runner: Deckard is a....


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Sci, 2020-12-13, 08:44 PM

Replicant right?

Also, I love how this was ad libbed by Hauer:




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So at the end of Sopranos...


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Sci, 2020-12-13, 08:40 PM

Tony's dead right?




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Whitehead's Process Philosophy's value to Virtual Reality design


Connected philosophy forum (metaphysics, ontology, theology, ethics)    No Replies

Sci, 2020-12-11, 08:11 PM

Primer on Whitehead’s Process Philosophy as a Paradigm Shift & Foundation for Experiential Design



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Ravens’ performance in cognitive tests is on par with that of great apes.


Consciousness science forum    3 Replies

Sci, 2020-12-11, 07:54 PM

Ravens’ performance in cognitive tests is on par with that of great apes.

Mary Bates

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By four months of age, the cognitive performance of ravens in experimental tasks testing their soci

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Dec 12th: Kastrup vs Woerlee


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Sci, 2020-12-11, 07:44 PM



Live in approx 21 hours...


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Migraine Aura and NDEs


Near-death experience (NDE) forum    2 Replies

Smaw, 2020-12-10, 06:59 AM

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6716500/

https://peerj.com/articles/8202/

Two interesting studies bringing up the connection between NDEs and REM sleep again that I haven't seen posted. Use online surveys for some bigger data turnouts and report some more negative NDEs than normal

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The Starbaby Scandal


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Sci, 2020-12-09, 08:41 PM

Starbaby

Dennis Rawlins

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I used to believe it was simply a figment of the National Enquirer's weekly imagination that the Science Establishment would cover up evidence for the occult. But that was in the era B.C. -- Befo

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