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Dualism without hard distinction?


Philosophy of mind forum    17 Replies

Sci, 2020-07-07, 08:23 PM

Nbtruthman's been an enjoyable debate partner regarding the viability of Dualism, and I have to say I've been rethinking this.

I remember a work of fiction suggesting that there is a realm of Spirit/Mind (the realm of Idealism) and the realm of the solid material stuff (the realm of Materialism).

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Could Invisible Aliens Really Exist Among Us? An Astrobiologist Explains


UFO/UAP forum    No Replies

Sci, 2020-07-06, 10:20 PM

Could Invisible Aliens Really Exist Among Us? An Astrobiologist Explains

Samantha Rolfe


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Sharman says she believes aliens exist and “there’s no two ways about it”. Fu

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The Spiritual Lessons of the Paranormal


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    3 Replies

nbtruthman, 2020-07-06, 06:41 PM

Michael Tymn has just offered in his blog a synthesis of his many years of study and experience, in response to an inquiry from a friend having to deal with the dying of his wife. This I thi

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How would you respond to these rebuttals to Terminal Lucidity?


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    15 Replies

OmniVersalNexus, 2020-07-05, 09:02 PM

I found these on a Reddit debate-an-atheist post from a year ago, where the OP was arguing that the mind is not a product of the brain. Most comments just accused him of not providing any evidence of this, but he does briefly explain Terminal Lucidity. The comments that responded to him (that weren'

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Scientists say most likely number of contactable alien civilisations is 36


UFO/UAP forum    No Replies

Sci, 2020-07-05, 03:56 AM

Scientists say most likely number of contactable alien civilisations is 36

Nicola Davis


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“Basically, we made the assumption that intellige

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The Brain as Filter: On Removing the Stuffing from the Keyhole


Consciousness science forum    2 Replies

Sci, 2020-07-05, 03:05 AM

The Brain as Filter: On Removing the Stuffing from the Keyhole

Larry Dosey, MD


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The fallback position in modern neuroscience is that filter theories sell the brain short. The brain makes consciousne

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How the brain 'generates and loses consciousness'


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    5 Replies

OmniVersalNexus, 2020-07-04, 04:45 PM

The following study, from 2019, does use the terms 'could' and 'might', but I'm not exactly certain about the implications, especially for NDEs under anaesthesia.

[url=https://neurosciencenews.com/consciousness-brain-generation-loss-13009/]https://neurosciencenews.com/consciousness-brain-generati

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Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fallacy and is it unfalsifiable?


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    630 Replies

OmniVersalNexus, 2020-07-04, 09:42 AM

This is based on a few odd YouTube comments I'd seen on one of those Closer to Truth YT videos, as well as a pretty shoddy video criticising someone on a Closer to Truth video. The criticism video can he found here if you're inter

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Reality as Information - Is there Intrinsic Meaning? Sentient Life & Bits


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

Sci, 2020-07-03, 10:27 PM




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This Quantum Physicist Redditor really hates Bernardo Kastrup


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    18 Replies

OmniVersalNexus, 2020-07-02, 10:05 PM

I've posted this on Bernardo's forum as well for discussion. Personally I have mixed thoughts on Bernardo given that I do think some criticisms of him, namely his claims about quantum physics/mechanics, are rather sketchy, but I am still inclined to listen to what he has to say. It seems that Kastru

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