Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    1 Replies

Ancient animistic beliefs live on in our intimacy with tech

Stephen T Asma


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Recently, science has come to understand the emotions of social bonding, and I think it helps us understand why it’

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Consciousness science forum    No Replies

Introduction

Articles:

The Forest Spirits of Today Are Computers

[i]We’ve made an artificially panpsychic world, where technology and natur

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Consciousness science forum    No Replies

Why your brain is not a computer

Matthew Cobb


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Every day, we hear about new discoveries that shed light on how brains work, along with the promise –

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Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    24 Replies

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Materialism, as a philosophy of mind, is the thesis that consciousness and mind are entirely dependent on the brain, they could not exist without the brain and, in its strongest form, consciousness and mind are held to

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UFO/UAP forum    No Replies

Vast data sets and machine learning could link SETI to quantum computing

Caleb A. Scharf


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Radio transmissions might exist across thousands if not millions of discrete frequencies. Or in other electromagnetic

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General off-topic forum    No Replies

[quote='Chris' pid='16766' dateline='1525700526']
Not about the Great Pyramid, but in view of the news it's not worth starting a new thread for it ...

[i]"Egyptian authorities have finished their quest to discover a secret chamber in the tomb of Tutankhamun - concluding that it does not exist.


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Philosophy of mind forum    No Replies

General paranormal phenomena forum    No Replies

The unusual dimming of the star Betelgeuse is attracting a lot of attention at the moment. An article by Sequoyah Kennedy at Mysterious Universe draws attention to the fact that only part of the star is dimming, so that its apparent shape is changing rather dramatically:
https://mysteriousuniverse.

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General parapsychology    No Replies

The SPR Facebook page reports the sad news of another veteran British researcher, Mary Rose Barrington, who died this morning at the age of 94. Her profile on the SPR website is here:
https://www.spr.ac.uk/about/people/mary-rose-barrington

She had written two other recent books, published in 201

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

Edge of Tech: How nature uses quantum mechanics

Preston Callicott


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Beekeepers and scientists have long been puzzled by a honeybee’s strang

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