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Emergent Consciousness: From the Early Universe to Our Mind


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Sci, 2019-04-12, 04:06 AM

Emergent Consciousness: From the Early Universe to Our Mind

Paola Zizzi

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In this paper, we described the early inflationary universe as an ensemble of quantum gravity registers in parallel. At the end of inflation, the supe

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Is nature continuous or discrete? How the atomist error was born


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Sci, 2019-04-11, 07:32 PM

Is nature continuous or discrete? How the atomist error was born 

Thomas Nail


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Quantum gravity is of enormous importance. According to its proponents, it stands poised to show the world

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Talking ‘The Flip’ with Dr Jeffrey Kripal


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Sci, 2019-04-11, 06:09 PM

Talking ‘The Flip’ with Dr Jeffrey Kripal



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This week, we welcome back to the show Dr Jeffrey Kripal to talk about his latest book, [i]The

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Reductive materialists have 'lost their mind'?


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nbtruthman, 2019-04-11, 02:53 PM

[color=#3d3d3d][font="roboto"]Article - scientistic adherents of reductive materialism deny the reality of the immaterial realm altogether. In doing this they also end up d

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The Politics of Renaissance Hermeticism, and the Magic of Science


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Sci, 2019-04-10, 04:35 PM

The Politics of Renaissance Hermeticism, and the Magic of Science

Matthew Segall

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What interests me in Yates’ historical account is the way Bruno was both modern and non-modern in his Hermetic religion:

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3 Academic Professors get Evolution Completely Wrong.


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Steve001, 2019-04-10, 12:42 PM

Read this article first.

Quote:Researchers witness the emergence of a new gene in the lab
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[size=medium][font="sans-serif"]How do new genes appear? For more than a century, researchers have thought that, from time to time, new gene functions evolved after cells acci

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We Need New Ways of Treating Depression


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Sci, 2019-04-09, 09:44 PM

We Need New Ways of Treating Depression

Johann Hari

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The doctor said that depression is caused by the spontaneous lack of a chemical in the brain called serotonin, and I simpl

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Study showing electrical stimulation can eliminate age-related working memory deficit


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Chris, 2019-04-09, 08:04 AM

Courtesy of the Daily Grail - this seems quite remarkable to me. A study evaluated working memory using a "spot the difference" task in two groups of healthy adults, aged 20-29 and 60-76, and as expected found that the older participants performed worse (accuracy about 80% on average, with a range o

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Depression Cured by Past-Life Regression


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Typoz, 2019-04-08, 07:22 PM

This is a report from March 2018 in the Daily Mail.

[url=https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5526851/Woman-cured-lifelong-depression-recalling-PAST-LIVES.html]Woman, 57, claims she cured her depression and came off medication by recalling her PAST LIVES - including her time as an abused m

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Magneto-reception in humans


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Ninshub, 2019-04-07, 05:29 PM

Apologies if this story was posted before.

As reported in New Scientist, a new study suggests humans may sense Earth's magnetic field just like other animals.

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