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Not even language is a ‘language’


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Sci, 2025-04-21, 07:41 PM

Not even language is a ‘language’

Fredric Nord

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Fredric Nord argues that knowing reality through language is fundamentally and inescapably a misunderstanding of reality. We misunderstand what languag

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Immram as Spiritual Practice


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Sci, 2025-04-16, 07:19 PM

Immram as Spiritual Practice

Unlisted Author

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There is a genre of Irish literature known as immrama (immram for singular) which are tales of adventures into the wild ocean usually in search of a mystical par

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Study Finds Cells May Compute Faster Than Today’s Quantum Computers


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Sci, 2025-04-16, 06:36 PM

Study Finds Cells May Compute Faster Than Today’s Quantum Computers

Matt Swayne

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More than 80 years ago, Erwin Schrödinger, a theoretical physicist steeped in the phi

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Transformation and Renewal through Indigenous Dialogue


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Sci, 2025-04-15, 03:58 PM



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Transformation and Renewal Through Indigenous Dialogue with David Begay (Navajo), Angelita Valencia Borbon (Yaqui), Greg Cajete (Tewa), Amethyst First Rider (Blackfoot), Rose von Thater Braan-Imai (Tuscarora), Nancy Maryb

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SURVIVAL: Re-Appraising the Evidence for Life After Death


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Sci, 2025-04-15, 03:55 PM



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In memoriam: Peter Fenwick (1935-2024), Charles Tart (1937-2025), and Allan Leslie Combs (1942-2025)

A Rigorous Open-Minded Exploration Understanding whether consciousness continues after death is one of the most prof

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Human Initiated Contact Experiences with Joseph Burkes


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Sci, 2025-04-13, 07:33 PM



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Joseph Burkes, MD, is a board certified specialist in internal medicine. He is coauthor of the chapter titled "Medical Healings Reported by UAP Contact Experiencers: An Analysis of the FREE Date" in the anthology Beyond U

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The Quantum Experiment That Defies Logic Exactly 1/12 Of The Time


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Sci, 2025-04-11, 07:39 PM



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Physicist Dr.Lídia Del Rio, Essentia Foundation’s research fellow at the University of Zurich, explains to Hans Busstra one of the strangest quantum conundra confronting the foundations of physics: the Frauchiger-Renner (

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Multiple Universes in MesoAmerican Cultures


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Sci, 2025-04-09, 08:07 PM



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Multiple Universes in MesoAmerican Cultures with Geraldine Encina and Mindahi Munoz from the series "Multiple Universes: Parallel Worlds in Quantum Physics, Cosmology and Imagination" Drs Mindahi Bastida and Geraldine Pat

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Scholastic regress arguments


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Sci, 2025-04-08, 06:49 PM

Scholastic regress arguments

Feser

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...Here are some features common to such arguments.  First, and to repeat, the basic general pattern is to argue that the existence of items having a certain featu

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How imagination, prompted by ‘words,’ may have created the universe


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Sci, 2025-04-08, 06:05 PM

How imagination, prompted by ‘words,’ may have created the universe

David Dolezal

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..Is it possible to intentionally create an image in the human mind when one is no

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