General off-topic forum    4 Replies

Here’s my dilemma. One of my favourite distractions is to read magazines from two hundred and fifty years ago to see what the main talking points of the day were. It’s mostly pretty mundane with a few oddities here and there but recently I found a case so remarkable that I couldn’t believe it had be

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Philosophy of mind forum    2 Replies

Eliminativism without truth part 1

E. Feser

[quote]...Rosenberg has dismissed the incoherence charge as “puerile,” but here he characterizes it as “powerful” and “serious.”  Evidently, what he regards as

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

The Admiral of the String Theory Wars
After a decade, Peter Woit still thinks string theory is a gory mess.

Bob Henderson, Nautilus


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Woit’s major complaint ab

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

David Bohm, Quantum Mechanics and Enlightenment

The visionary physicist, whose ideas remain influential, sought spiritual as well as scientific illumination


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Psi research forum (ESP and psychokinesis)    1 Replies

On Bem, precognition, and the limitations of quantitative experiments

S.Braude


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Another quite different and thorny set of issues concerns the conce

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Psi research forum (ESP and psychokinesis)    1 Replies

I'm again grateful to someone who has drawn my attention to David W. Smith's University of Edinburgh Ph.D. thesis, entitled "An investigation of unconscious precognition in the visual attention system" (2012), which is available here:
https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/bitstream/h...2/Smith201

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Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    No Replies

Show Notes

• [url=https://www.amazon.com/Backwoods-Witchcraft-Conjure-Magic-Appalachia/dp/1578636531/ref=sr_1_1?cri

Consciousness science forum    26 Replies

Brain Damage Saved His Music

Brian Gallagher


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Eight years ago, when neurosurgeon Marcelo Galarza saw images from jazz guitarist Pat Martino’s cerebral MRI, he was astonished. “I

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Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    3 Replies

Why Aging Isn’t Inevitable

Josh Mitteldorf & Dorion Sagan


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Life spans range from Methuselans great and small to genetic kamikazes that die of a spring afternoon. Submerged dragonflies li

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Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    1 Replies

Why Some Scientists Believe the Universe Is Conscious

by "News" apparently. 

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That stuff, you may say, is a lot like Pareago’s odd stars in the Milky Way—pretty far out. But consider

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