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Steven Novella claims this study on mice 'destroys dualism'


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OmniVersalNexus, 2020-12-03, 12:44 AM

This came to my attention via that NDE Twitter account. Apparently, Novella posted last month about a recent study on the behaviour of mice and how their brain regions are involved in decision making. The original study can be found [url=https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(20)30809-6?_re

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Ping Pong Sufi


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    No Replies

Sci, 2020-12-02, 06:07 PM

Ping Pong Sufi


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A practitioner of the inward-looking form of Islam known as [url=https://aeon.co/essays/sufi-islam-thrives-humorous-eloquent-and-poetic-as-ever]Sufism[/

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Articles about PSI and cosmology?


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

Smaw, 2020-12-02, 10:10 AM

Been reading some stuff about space recently, is all very fun and interesting. Planets, stars, ways the universe will end. (Heat Death still looks pretty convincing but after forever who knows how that'll stick)

I was wondering if you guys have any articles or good threads from on here that I mig

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Are we in Purgatory? The concept of eternal existence.


Reincarnation forum    4 Replies

Jamescarty, 2020-12-01, 02:23 AM

Hello. This is my 1st post here. Thank you for accepting me. The video linked here represents the culmination of many years of research on this subject.
[color=#030303][font="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"]IF the concept of the reincarnation o

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Neuroscientist says the brain isn't for thinking


Consciousness science forum    15 Replies

nbtruthman, 2020-11-30, 08:28 PM

A neuroscientist says your brain isn't for thinking - just-surviving. A new article in the New York Times (paywall), discussed [url=https://mindmatters.ai/2020/11/neuroscientist-your-brain-isnt-for-thinking-just-sur

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Aquinas' Ways, PSR, Tetralemmic Polarity...


Connected philosophy forum (metaphysics, ontology, theology, ethics)    14 Replies

Sci, 2020-11-30, 12:43 AM

Feser's Fifth: Why his up-to-date version of Aquinas' Fifth Way fails as a proof, and how to make it work

Vincent Torley


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In the Executive Summary above, I sketched an outline of how an alternative version of the teleolo

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Therapeutic Benefits from a Tarot Reading


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OmniVersalNexus, 2020-11-29, 10:24 PM

I recently had my tarot cards read during a Zoom call with someone from a society I am a member of at my University. She is a long-time member of this society who is very gentle, thoughtful and funny. She was very cautious and respectful in asking whether we wanted to do this or not since the sessio

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Ikue Mori - Bhima Swarga


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    No Replies

Sci, 2020-11-29, 10:17 PM



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Loosely based on a section of the great Indian Mahabharata epic, Mori's Bhima Swarga (The Heaven of Bhima) is a riveting audiovisual exercise that uses mural paintings from the 18th century Kertha Gosha court in Bali to c

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Are indeterministic events temporally irreducible?


Connected philosophy forum (metaphysics, ontology, theology, ethics)    1 Replies

Sci, 2020-11-29, 08:36 PM

If one divides time successively one ends up with Zeno Paradox situations, but I think with indeterminism you have a potentially different problem.

Consider quantum indeterminism -->

1) What happens between the moment a photon makes contact with a window and the next moment it either passes t

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How Quantum Randomness Saves Relativity


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    1 Replies

Sci, 2020-11-29, 04:01 AM

How Quantum Randomness Saves Relativity

Chad Orzel


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...So, if Alice and Bob want to send messages faster than light, Alice just varies the setting of her polarizer, w

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