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Bohm: A change of meaning is a change of being


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

Sci, 2019-03-13, 12:46 AM

Bohm: A change of meaning is a change of being

A dialogue with David Bohm & Renée Weber

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Weber : You are more and more interested in meaning, so can we explore what meaning is; not the definiti

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Off-topic posts from thread "Imagine a brick hitting a window..."


General off-topic forum    15 Replies

Kamarling, 2019-03-12, 10:24 PM

[quote='Paul C. Anagnostopoulos' pid='26802' dateline='1552425326']

I think you're being unfair here. If there are pages of answers that address my question, why won't someone post a link to the answer when I keep asking the question? Or when fls asks the same question? What I get is "You haven't

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Experimental Rejection of Observer-Independence in the Quantum World


Consciousness science forum    6 Replies

Sci, 2019-03-12, 06:22 PM

Bernardo mentioned this, have not looked deeply yet:

Experimental rejection of observer-independence in the quantum world

Proietti and co

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The scientific method relies on facts, established through repeated measurements and agreed upon

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Imagine a brick hitting a window...


Connected philosophy forum (metaphysics, ontology, theology, ethics)    48 Replies

Sci, 2019-03-11, 10:02 PM

What, can we say, is going on?

Big Grin

edit: "Mod Plus" in that this is not meant to trigger a new discussion about human free will. Though we might end up talking about mental causation (b/c Idealism, Panpsychism, Theism) let's just stick with the brick and the window as the focal point thanks.


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How to quote when responding to posts


Introduction, rules, and guides    No Replies

Laird, 2019-03-10, 09:47 AM

There are three ways to quote from posts when you want to respond to them here on the Psience Quest forum (which runs on the MyBB forum software with plugins). To even be able to respond in the first place though, you need

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Quantum Mechanics and Intentionality


Consciousness science forum    No Replies

Sci, 2019-03-10, 06:31 AM

Quantum Mechanics and Intentionality

Godehard Brüntrup

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Henry Stapp’s version of a collapse theory is quite different(Stapp 2007). For him quantum reality, the superposition,collapses into classical reality if probed for a specific info

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Galaxy Simulations Offer a New Solution to the Fermi Paradox


UFO/UAP forum    No Replies

Sci, 2019-03-09, 09:37 PM

Galaxy Simulations Offer a New Solution to the Fermi Paradox

Greg Rakozy

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In their new paper, Carroll-Nellenback, Wright and their collaborators [url=https://www.pas.rochest

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Teal Swan's interesting perspective on the nature of Mediumship and Channelling


Afterlife contact forum (deathbed visions, ADC, mediumship)    11 Replies

Valmar, 2019-03-09, 04:06 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z833b1J_kyw

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Channeling is the act of translating messages from another consciousness. In the spiritual field, this usually means translating messages from beings that exist outside of the 3D reality. A Channel is a person who has the ability to channel the

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Foxfire and the roots of folklore


Folklore forum    2 Replies

Chris, 2019-03-09, 09:33 AM

There's an interesting article by Micah Hanks at Mysterious Universe, about research into the ancient roots of folktales. The example given is the story known as "The Smith and the Devil," which - according to researchers - has been traced back as far as the Bronze Age, and may be as much as 6000 ye

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Near-Death-Like Experiences without Life-Threatening Conditions or Brain Disorders


Near-death experience (NDE) forum    4 Replies

Typoz, 2019-03-09, 09:05 AM

I thought twice about posting this here, it may not belong only in the NDE subforum; it could be placed at some broader level perhaps.

A paper from 2012, entitled
[url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3498963/]Near-Death-Like Experiences without Life-Threatening Conditions or Brain

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