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How I learned how to Poltergeist


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Mediochre, 2019-03-08, 11:57 PM

I’m posting this now because I just want it out even in this incomplete form. I just don’t have the time I used to to be involved in this forum. I do want to add to and refine it, or at least answer questions, but I won’t deny it will take awhile.

Back in autumn 2010, shortly after I’d fried my e

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Diary of a concussion


Consciousness science forum    No Replies

Sci, 2019-03-07, 11:43 PM

Diary of a concussion

Elizabeth Lopatto

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Former players have agitated for research on what multiple concussions do to the human brain. John Urschel, a 26-year-old offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens, was so con

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Fast-Acting Depression Drug, Newly Approved, Could Help Millions


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Sci, 2019-03-07, 11:40 PM

Fast-Acting Depression Drug, Newly Approved, Could Help Millions

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Of the 16 million American adults who live with depres

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Cheekiest ever hoax video?


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Chris, 2019-03-07, 09:08 AM

Essex Live has a video of an eerie grey figure said to haunt a pathway in the village of Stansted Mountfitchet:
https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-ne...st-2593779

It's also been picked up by a national newspaper (if the Daily Star can be described as a newspaper):

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Templeton Foundation to fund "structured adversarial collaborations" on consciousness


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Chris, 2019-03-07, 08:46 AM

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page, here's an article from Quanta Magazine on a new initiative to design experiments capable of discriminating between competing theories of consciousness. If it goes ahead, it will be funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation. It's hoped it will be the first of

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Quantum Monism Could Save the Soul of Physics


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    16 Replies

Sci, 2019-03-06, 09:54 PM

Quantum Monism Could Save the Soul of Physics

Heinrich Päs


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A Journey Into the Radical Art of Brain Injury Survivors


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Sci, 2019-03-06, 08:55 PM

A Journey Into the Radical Art of Brain Injury Survivors

"A small and thriving community of artists in London are re-kindling age old questions about why we create."


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Our brains reveal our choices before we're even aware of them


Consciousness science forum    13 Replies

Steve001, 2019-03-06, 05:41 PM

A new UNSW study suggests we have less control over our personal choices than we think, and that unconscious brain activity determines our choices well before we are aware of them.

[url=https://m.medicalxpress.com/news/2019-03-brains-reveal-choices-aware.html]https://m.medicalxpress.com/news/2019

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Jung


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Chris, 2019-03-06, 08:54 AM

I'm really not sure which section of the site this belongs in.

On his Quorum page, Craig Weiler posted a link to John Freeman's 1959 interview with Carl Gustav Jung, from the BBC's "Face to Face" series:



I thought the interv

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Reflections on Nagel's Mind & Cosmos


Philosophy of mind forum    1 Replies

Sci, 2019-03-06, 04:34 AM

Interesting article by neuroscientist-philosopher Raymond Tallis concerning Nagel's Mind & Cosmos

Bringing Mind to Matter

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If the nature and existence of basic subjective consciousness cannot be fully expla

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