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The Flicker Filter Model of Consciousness with Imants Barušs


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    10 Replies

Sci, 2018-12-27, 08:15 PM



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Imants Barušs is Professor of Psychology at King's University College at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He is author of The Personal Nature of Notions of Consciousness: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination

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The Tao of It and Bit


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

Sci, 2018-12-27, 07:19 PM

The Tao of It and Bit

Ovidiu Cristinel Stoica


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The main mystery of quantum mechanics is contained in Wheeler's delayed choice experiment, which shows that the past is determined by our choi

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Diana Walsh Pasulka: UFOs, Religion, Technology


UFO/UAP forum    No Replies

Ninshub, 2018-12-27, 07:00 PM

Diana Walsh Pasulka is a professor of religious studies and she's got a book coming out in February about UFOs and religion.

[url=https://www.amazon.com/American-Cosmic-UFOs-Religion-Technology/dp/019069288X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1545936964&sr=1-1&keywords=pasulka][b]American Cosmic: UFO

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Study Suggests Time Did Actually Exist Before The Big Bang


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    1 Replies

Ninshub, 2018-12-27, 05:55 PM

Mind-Bending Study Suggests Time Did Actually Exist Before The Big Bang

MIKE MCRAE in Sciencealert.com
25 DEC 2018

[quote]Taking a slightly different approach, physicists T

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The Illusion of Conscious Thought


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    1 Replies

malf, 2018-12-27, 05:38 PM

http://faculty.philosophy.umd.edu/pcarru...hought.pdf

interview with the author here:




[url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/there-is-no-s

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Ghosts and spare properties: Why physicalists have more to fear from ghosts than zomb


Philosophy of mind forum    No Replies

Sci, 2018-12-26, 09:57 PM

Ghosts and spare properties: Why physicalists have more to fear from ghosts than zombies

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Zombies are bodies without minds: creatures that are physically ide

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Injecting the Bible and Quran into your body


General off-topic forum    5 Replies

Ninshub, 2018-12-26, 05:23 PM

A French Teenager Turned the Bible and Quran into DNA and Injected Them into His Body

By Rafi Letzter, Staff Writer     December 24, 2018 08:29am ET

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A kid in France transcribed parts of

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The Philosophy of Charles Sanders Pierce


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

Sci, 2018-12-26, 03:46 AM

Adam Crabtree's Esalen paper on CS Pierce

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ELEMENTS OF A PEIRCEAN VIEW OF THE WORLD

1. Peirce’s c[size=la

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Myers/James Filter Theory and Contemporary Science: Toward Reconciliation


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    1 Replies

Sci, 2018-12-25, 11:42 PM

Esalen is offering this excerpt for free: From Chapter 9, Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century,  Edward F. Kelly, Emily Williams Kelly, et al ->

[url=https://www.esalen.org/sites/default/files/resource_attachments/Ch-4-Supp-IM.pdf]Myers/James Filter Theory and Contemporary S

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Why divine immanence mattered for the Civil Rights struggle


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    No Replies

Sci, 2018-12-25, 10:41 PM

Why divine immanence mattered for the Civil Rights struggle

Vaneesa Cook

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‘I am here taking a stand for what I believe is right. But now I am afraid,’ King prayed at his kitchen table. ‘At that

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