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Building a Brain Implant for Smell


Consciousness science forum    No Replies

Sci, 2019-04-02, 01:58 PM

Building a Brain Implant for Smell

Karen Weintraub

[quote]Researchers are developing a device that could restore olfaction, much as a

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Philosophy as a part of the Golden Chain


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    1 Replies

Sci, 2019-04-02, 03:59 AM

Introduction to The Golden Chain

by Algis Uzdavinys



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And She Came Back


Afterlife contact forum (deathbed visions, ADC, mediumship)    3 Replies

Sci, 2019-04-02, 02:56 AM

And She Came Back

Joe Waldron

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During this whole interaction I was aware of someone else in another corner of the [size=large][font="serif"]room where Rene and I met. A

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An Ideal Solution to the Problems of Consciousness


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Sci, 2019-03-31, 07:17 PM

An Ideal Solution to the Problems of Consciousness

Daniel Hutto

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This paper distinguishes three conceptual problems that attend philosophical accounts of consciousness. The first concerns the

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Novonty's challenge to Searle's brand of physicalism


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Sci, 2019-03-31, 05:40 PM

Searle on the unity of the world

Daniel Novonty


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The aim of this paper is to show that Searle fails to make the compatibility between mentalism and physicalism intelli

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The Shapira Scroll


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Chris, 2019-03-31, 10:23 AM

In 1883 a dealer in antiquities, Moses Shapira, offered for sale a set of purportedly ancient leather strips containing extracts related to the book of Deuteronomy, but differing from the standard text. Shapira had previously been involved (unwittingly, he said) in selling fake ancient artefacts, an

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Top 10 AI hype stories of 2018


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nbtruthman, 2019-03-31, 09:41 AM

Grossly exaggerated media hype about AI advances continues. Here is a list of 10 top stories of 2018, from https://mindmatters.ai/t/2018-hype/:

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- 1: IBM'S WATSON IS OUR NEW COMPUTER OVERLORD!                   
It won at Jeopardy (with specially chosen “softball” questions) but is not the h

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Mazes


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Chris, 2019-03-31, 08:56 AM

The Magonia Review has a review by Alan Price of what sounds like an interesting book by Charlotte Higgins, entitled "Red Thread, On Mazes and Labyrinths" (2018):
http://pelicanist.blogspot.com/2019/03/a...ement.html

Londoners may be interested to see the explanation for those plaques

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Solutions: Open Science


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    5 Replies

Mediochre, 2019-03-29, 04:34 PM



Companion thread to the Crisis of Science thread. I felt it would be good to have separate discussions on the problems and solutions because each

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Recursive Projection


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Mediochre, 2019-03-29, 02:10 AM

This is a very work in progress thing that I came up with yesterday and did very minimal tests with at the time but here’s what the basic concept is and the problem it hopes to solve and why I think it might be able to work

A recursive projection is a method where you attempt to take what you are

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