[The first twelve posts in this thread were split out of the thread Is this forum dying?. It seems worth having a thread dedicated to SEO and how we can improve it for Psience Quest, especially so as to attract new members, and es
This was a rather different sort of journey... a breakthrough in perhaps a few ways... thank you in advance for reading.
I had the blessing of being able to acquire a microdose worth of dried Psilocybin mushrooms. My guides told that alone, the 0.5 grams wouldn't do much, so they thought a bit
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What if phenomenal consciousness, signs, communication, and interpretation are fundamental aspects of all living systems, whether or not we can detect brains? This is the departure point of biosemiotics, an interdisciplinary field that
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[color=#131313]The conviction that the natural world is obedient, adhering to laws, is a widespread assumption of modern science. But where did this idea originate and what beliefs does it imply?
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The core idea of emergence inspired me to develop the concept I call the entangled brain: the need to understand the brain as an interactionally complex system where fun
Sadly hardly anything seems to be going on here any more I don't know why.
If this is indeed the fate of PSQ, I hope the founders can ensure that all the discussions we have enjoyed here are fully preserved. We surely want a better memorial than Skeptiko!
I posted this here rather than in another section as it is just about mainstream science. And I admit I only read the article because of the use of the word 'why' in the headline (rather than 'how'). The idea of a race had me thinking that perhaps if they can't answer the question of why we are here
[quote] Introduction: Out-of-body experiences (OBEs) are primarily characterized by the sensation of the self being located outside one's physical body. The complexity of this phenomenon has led researchers to propose various theories to explain it, including physiological, psychological, an
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In this episode of Spirit Box, I had the pleasure of speaking with folklorist and writer Scott Richardson-Read the brilliant mind behind Cailleach’s Herbarium. The focus of today's chat is Scott’s new book 'Mill Dust And