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Dogs may use Earth's magnetic field to navigate


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

Sci, 2020-07-21, 12:56 AM

Dogs may use Earth's magnetic field to navigate

Bob Yirka

[quote]Prior research has shown that dogs tend to orient themselves in a north-south position when urinating—a finding that suggests they may have the ability to se

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What Is an Individual? Biology Seeks Clues in Information Theory.


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Sci, 2020-07-18, 03:37 PM

What Is an Individual? Biology Seeks Clues in Information Theory.

Jordana Cepelewicz


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Acquisition of Donor Traits by Heart Transplant Recipients


Afterlife contact forum (deathbed visions, ADC, mediumship)    3 Replies

Sci, 2020-07-18, 01:16 AM

Acquisition of Donor Traits by Heart Transplant Recipients

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Excerpted with permission from Pearsall, P, Schwartz, G E R, and Russek, L G S (2002), Changes in Heart Transplant Recipients That Parallel the

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The Archives of Scientists’ Transcendent Experiences


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Sci, 2020-07-17, 11:22 PM

The Archives of Scientists’ Transcendent Experiences


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[size=small][font="Georgia"]TASTE is an online journal devoted to transcendent experiences that scientists have reported. It lets scientists express these experiences in a psychol

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How does Peer Review work?


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Stan Woolley, 2020-07-17, 01:22 PM

Who gets to read a paper? Who decides ? 

I could of course have ‘googled’ an answer. But this way I might get ‘more’.


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Sounds which may be Silent?


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Typoz, 2020-07-16, 08:41 PM

Something fairly minor happened the other day. Round about my normal waking up time, I was suddenly woken from my sleep by the sound of someone rapping three times on my bedroom door. It was sharp and clear, but soft, as though the back of an open hand was used to gently tap on the door.

Right fr

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Mega-thread for help with rebuttals against skeptical talking points


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OmniVersalNexus, 2020-07-16, 11:52 AM

I thought this might be appropriate for the Discussion section, since I'm not absolutely sure what the implications of this are for skeptics or proponents. Someone mentioned this study on the AwareofAWARE blog, and I'm curious as to what relevance this might have to veridical NDE evidence and resear

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Someones no fan of Laurence Krauss.


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Stan Woolley, 2020-07-15, 05:32 AM

https://twitter.com/horganism/status/128...49921?s=21

I think this is about the integrity of Science as much as the integrity of an individual. Imo they can’t be separated.


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Antonio Damasio insists there's 'no such thing as a disembodied mind'


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OmniVersalNexus, 2020-07-14, 09:05 AM

https://dailygalaxy.com/2020/07/consciou...ssion=true


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[color=#363636][size=large][font="SecondaryFont, system-ui"]“We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling m

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Space, Time and Consciousness


Consciousness science forum    5 Replies

Sci, 2020-07-13, 10:37 PM

Space, Time and Consciousness

JR Smythies


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This paper describes a new theory of consciousness based on previous work by C.D. Broad, H.H. Price, Andrei Linde and others. This hypothesis states that the Univers

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