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Talks with Rupert Sheldrake – Mark Vernon


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Sci, 2018-12-06, 04:22 AM

Talks with Rupert Sheldrake – Mark Vernon



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Quantum 2.0: At the beating heart of biology


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Sci, 2018-12-05, 11:56 PM

Quantum 2.0: At the beating heart of biology

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What is life? The question was posed by famous theoretical physicist Erwin Schrödinger, and now advances in quantum mechanics could help provide the

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Feser's arguments against Computational Theories of Mind


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Sci, 2018-12-05, 09:56 PM

Popper contra computationalism

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[size=small]The context makes it evident that Popper intends to make both a narrow point against any attempt to explain human rationality specifically on the model of the

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Searle: Is the Brain a Digital Computer?


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Sci, 2018-12-05, 09:44 PM

Is the Brain a Digital Computer?

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1.  On the standard textbook definition, computation is defined syntactically in terms of symbol manipulation.

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Does Mary know I experience plus rather than quus?


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Sci, 2018-12-05, 08:23 PM

Does Mary know I experience plus rather than quus?

by Phillip Goff

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At first the demon thought this settled the matter. It seemed clear that, upon seeing the rose,Mary learnt somet

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Bringing balance to the universe: New theory could explain missing 95 percent...


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Steve001, 2018-12-05, 04:42 PM

...of the cosmos
https://m.phys.org/news/2018-12-universe...osmos.html


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Thomas Aquinas & The Immaterial Aspects of Thoughts


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Sci, 2018-12-04, 10:32 PM

Ross: The Immaterial Aspects of Thoughts


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There is a larger and bolder project of epistemology naturalized, namely, to explain human thought in terms available to physical science, particularly the aspects of thou

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Chomsky on the Mind & Limits of Understanding


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Sci, 2018-12-04, 07:52 PM

Science, Mind, and Limits of Understanding

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Friedrich Lange, in his classic 19th century history of materialism, observed that we have “so accustomed ourselves to the abstract notion of forces, or rather to a notion hovering in a mystic obscurity

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Sheldrake dissertation


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Will, 2018-12-04, 06:24 AM

Way, way, way back, when Skeptiko was still...insert your own tap-dace-around-the-problem-here, there was an interview with a student who'd written a dissertation on Rupert Sheldrake (see here). There used to be a lin

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New Quantum Paradox Clarifies Where Our Views of Reality Go Wrong?


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Sci, 2018-12-04, 01:35 AM

New Quantum Paradox Clarifies Where Our Views of Reality Go Wrong

by Allison Filice

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A thought experiment has shaken up the world of quantum foundations, forcing

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