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Centaurs


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Chris, 2018-12-01, 09:15 AM

I thought this article at Mysterious Universe was interesting:
https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/11/a...ar-system/

It seems there are these things called centaurs which have unstable orbits between Jupiter and Neptune and are something

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Rupert Sheldrake Q&A At The National Arts Club


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

Sci, 2018-11-30, 11:59 PM




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Philosopher's Dualism vs Layperson Dualism?


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    7 Replies

Sci, 2018-11-30, 08:48 PM

Something I've been thinking about - the philosophical conception of dualism is two distinct categories, usually for our purposes one substance that is our bodies and one substance that is the stuff of our souls.

But for the lay person does this really come down to two distinct substances? Rather

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The Conscious Electromagnetic (cemi) Field Theory


Consciousness science forum    7 Replies

Sci, 2018-11-30, 08:44 PM

The Conscious Electromagnetic (cemi) Field Theory

by Johnjoe McFadden



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That concept of information encoded as an electromagnetic field is actually a very familiar one. We routinely encode complex images and so

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Process Philosophy and the Emergent Theory of Mind: Whitehead, Lloyd Morgan and Schel


Philosophy of mind forum    5 Replies

Sci, 2018-11-29, 09:00 PM

Process Philosophy and the Emergent Theory of Mind: Whitehead, Lloyd Morgan and Schelling

Aarran Gare

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While some process philosophers have denigrated the

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Dr. Rupert Sheldrake - Morphogenetic Fields of Body and Mind - Quantum University


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Sci, 2018-11-29, 04:27 AM



I don't think this has been posted yet? It's 2 months old, so if it has apologies!


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Qualia! (Now Showing at a Theater near You)


Philosophy of mind forum    1 Replies

Sci, 2018-11-28, 10:55 PM

Qualia! (Now Showing at a Theater near You) by Eric Lormand

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Qualia! is a bold drama about qualia. On more cautious stories, to say that a mental state has "qualia" is to say that there

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What is Information?


Connected philosophy forum (metaphysics, ontology, theology, ethics)    8 Replies

Sci, 2018-11-28, 10:32 PM

Trying to recall all the varied times this has come up, and thought it might be useful to just have a thread for reference/discussion.

Will post some definitions later, but feel free to add your own.


-Sci


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Physicist N. David Mermin on what the study of physics is about


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

Sci, 2018-11-28, 08:59 PM

Physicist N. David Mermin on what the study of physics is about:

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In my youth I had little sympathy for Niels Bohr’s philosophical pronouncements. In a review of Bohr’s philosophical writings I said that “one wants to shak

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New Thinking Allowed: Metaphysical Idealism with Bernardo Kastrup


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Sci, 2018-11-28, 08:12 PM




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