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Life with purpose


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    63 Replies

Sci, 2020-11-16, 01:12 AM

Life with purpose

Phillip Ball

Quote:Biologists balk at any talk of ‘goals’ or ‘intentions’ – but a bold new research agenda has put agency back on the table

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Free Book: Henry Stapp's On The Nature of Things


Consciousness science forum    1 Replies

Sci, 2020-11-15, 07:49 PM

On The Nature of Things: Human Presence in the World ofAtoms

Henry Stapp


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According to this quantum mechanical understanding of reality, the very same laws that were originally introduced to account for the empirical findings in the

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Materia & Spiritus


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    No Replies

Sci, 2020-11-13, 07:58 PM

Materia & Spiritus

Eriol Claw


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I had been out on a nature trail and ventured off the main trail into what was a natural slate-stone stair from an old creek bed, and I could see two realities just to the side of the phy

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Hollow Vessels


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    No Replies

Sci, 2020-11-13, 07:28 PM

Hollow Vessels

Eriol Claw


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Consider the calls to fill ourselves with God, civic cultus, patriotism—with spirits, ancestors, food—with sights and sounds.

Or, at least, what have we been filling ourselves with, and how

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An Open-Ended Conversation with Whitley Strieber


UFO/UAP forum    No Replies

Sci, 2020-11-11, 12:51 AM



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Herein is a surprisingly deep philosophical and spiritual discussion concerning the apprehension and understanding of levels of reality within consciousness and their interaction with the physical world. The discussion th

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Pedesis - Movement of Matter


Connected philosophy forum (metaphysics, ontology, theology, ethics)    9 Replies

Sci, 2020-11-09, 09:39 PM

Just posting some more stuff on Pedesis, the idea that matter can/does move in ways that are neither deterministic nor random.


[i]The very idea of a purely random motion presupposes that it was not affected by or related to anything else previously, which presupposes that it was the first thing

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Physicalism Redux


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    241 Replies

Sci, 2020-11-09, 02:48 AM

Friends,

I'm still waiting for that elusive explanation of how a physical universe that has no consciousness can somehow generate our minds.

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God of Movement that isn't a God of Meaning?


Connected philosophy forum (metaphysics, ontology, theology, ethics)    9 Replies

Sci, 2020-11-08, 07:37 PM

Interesting post from computationalist Joshua Bach:

Four Gods



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...I find that in contrast to the god of meaning, the unmoved god of movement may be an ontological necessity. The universe manifests itself as a set of di

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How NOT to introduce people to NDE and consciousness survival research


Near-death experience (NDE) forum    15 Replies

OmniVersalNexus, 2020-11-07, 09:15 PM

You could call this thread a sequel to 'Doesn't this just piss you off?' when it comes to misinformation online making it more difficult for people to take NDEs and related evidence seriously.[url=https://psiencequest.net/forums/index.php][/url]

I've honestly had about enough of this type of cont

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Casual Culling of 15 million Mink.


General off-topic forum    15 Replies

Stan Woolley, 2020-11-07, 09:13 AM

I can’t help but think that the way we like to think of ourselves as being civilised is proven to be just more wishful thinking. The casual culling of 15 MILLION mink hardly raises an eyebrow among many of us. That The Sun newspaper (really any msm newspaper) should be the source that brings it to o

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