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This Is Your Brain on Silence


Consciousness science forum    2 Replies

Sci, 2019-03-01, 06:40 PM

This Is Your Brain on Silence

Daniel Gross

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Surprisingly, recent research supports some of Nightingale’s zealous claims. In the mid 20th century, epidemiologists discovered correlations between high blood press

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Real Dispositions in the Physical World


Connected philosophy forum (metaphysics, ontology, theology, ethics)    11 Replies

Sci, 2019-03-01, 05:37 PM

Real Dispositions in the Physical World

Ian J. Thompson

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The role of dispositions in the physical world is considered. It is shown that not only can classical physics be reasonably construed as the discovery of real dispositions

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Did Robert Browning expose Daniel Dunglas Home as a fraud?


Afterlife contact forum (deathbed visions, ADC, mediumship)    18 Replies

Chris, 2019-03-01, 04:44 PM

I was surprised to read this in the New York Times Magazine article about Susan Gerbic's plan to debunk fraudulent mediums:
[i]"The poet Robert Browning once exposed the mid-19th century Scottish psychic, Daniel Home, who claimed to conjure the spirit of Browning’s infant son, who died young. Except

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Operation Peach Pit


Afterlife contact forum (deathbed visions, ADC, mediumship)    No Replies

Chris, 2019-03-01, 09:34 AM

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page, here's an article in the New York Times Magazine about Susan Gerbic's latest project, which involves attempting to expose fraudulent celebrity mediums by setting up fake Facebook accounts and then getting people in the audience to pose as their owners:
https://www

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Putnam on causation, intentionality, and Aristotle


Connected philosophy forum (metaphysics, ontology, theology, ethics)    3 Replies

Sci, 2019-02-28, 07:04 PM

Putnam on causation, intentionality, and Aristotle

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[size=small]...the aim of a causal theory is to explain intentionality or representation in purely physical terms – terms that make no referen

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Astrophysicists scramble to patch a hole in the universe, rewriting cosmic history in


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    4 Replies

Sci, 2019-02-28, 06:03 PM

Astrophysicists scramble to patch a hole in the universe, rewriting cosmic history in the process.

Dennis Overbye

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Long, long ago, when the universe was only about 100,000 years old — a buzzing, expand

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Teleology: A Shopper’s Guide


Connected philosophy forum (metaphysics, ontology, theology, ethics)    No Replies

Sci, 2019-02-28, 04:30 PM


Edward Feser

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The telos of a thing or process is the end or goal toward which it points. Teleological notions feature prominently in current

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Does Efficient Causation Presuppose Final Causation?


Connected philosophy forum (metaphysics, ontology, theology, ethics)    No Replies

Sci, 2019-02-28, 03:54 PM

Does Efficient Causation Presuppose Final Causation?

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Aquinas embraced the bold claim that there can be no efficient causation without final causation — therefore, ther

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Tallis: The Time of Our Lives


Connected philosophy forum (metaphysics, ontology, theology, ethics)    No Replies

Sci, 2019-02-28, 01:27 AM

The Time of Our Lives


Raymond Tallis


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But at the heart of the thermodynamic arrow and the notion that times can be defined by the comparative levels of disorder in the universe there is a deep confusion. W

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What Laws? Which Past?...Hyper-Chaos & the Epistemological Limitations of retro-cause


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Sci, 2019-02-27, 08:02 PM

What Laws? Which Past?: Meillassoux’s Hyper-Chaos and the Epistemological Limitations of Retro-Causation

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[size=medium][font="serif"]The question of the metaphysical status of the

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