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Panpsychism and AI consciousness


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Sci, 2025-01-22, 07:41 PM

Panpsychism and AI consciousness

Marcus Arvan

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This article argues that if panpsychism is true, then there are grounds for thinking that digitally-based artificial intellige

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Theism's Demand: Is it morally wrong to believe in God?


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Sci, 2025-01-20, 03:18 AM

Theism's Demand: Is it morally wrong to believe in God?

Emerson Green

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I used to think theism was overwhelmingly improbable, given the weight of the evidence against

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Great scientists follow intuition and beauty, not rationality


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Sci, 2025-01-18, 04:32 PM

Great scientists follow intuition and beauty, not rationality

Erik Hoel


Quote:The unreasonable effectiveness of aesthetics in science

A play on Wigner's essay, [url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210

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Forms and the Reformation of Science: Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogue 92


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Sci, 2025-01-17, 11:50 PM



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Forms are all around us: clouds, flowers, creatures, even systems of thought and logical relations. And yet the nature of forms is rarely part of the modern scientific conversation. In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon

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Artificial Consciousness Is Impossible


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Sci, 2025-01-17, 03:59 PM

Artificial Consciousness Is Impossible

David Hsing

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Conscious machines are staples of science fiction that are often taken for granted as articles of future fact, but they are not possible.
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Recent neurological research confirms paranormal understanding of the afterlife state


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nbtruthman, 2025-01-16, 08:45 PM

https://www.quantamagazine.org/is-it-rea...ess%20both.

This is an interesting

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The Scandalous Radicality of Owen Barfield’s Thought. Landon Loftin, Max Leyf & Mark


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    No Replies

Sci, 2025-01-15, 08:31 PM



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Owen Barfield was the friend of CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien. He championed the importance of imagination and poetry. But what can be missed is the transformative depth of his ideas. They can revolutionise our perception of e

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Weird Studies: You Must Change Your Life


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Sci, 2025-01-15, 04:57 PM

Oddly was sure I posted this before awhile ago, but went back to this episode and apparently I never did? ->

You Must Change Your Life

JF Martel & Phil Ford

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Rainer Maria Rilke's poem "Archaic Torso of Apollo" ends on a note that has puzzled and

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What are the Chaldean Oracles ? The Lost Scripture of Pagan Neo-Platonism


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Sci, 2025-01-15, 03:29 PM



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The Chaldean Oracles were cherished as a kind of scripture by the last great Pagans philosophers such as Porphyry, Proclus, Iamblichus and Damascius. But, sadly they only now survive in fragments. What were the Chaldean O

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Reverse Archaeology And The Metaphoric Flexibility of the Gods


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Sci, 2025-01-10, 08:50 PM

Reverse Archaeology And The Metaphoric Flexibility of the Gods

Gordon White

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What has stayed with me over the past couple of months is just how accommodating these archetypal forms really are -and

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