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Prescott: Is Reality Hostile or Nurturing Toward Us?


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    46 Replies

Sci, 2018-04-14, 04:51 PM

Paraphrasing him in the title, but that was the gist I got out of two of his interesting posts:

The good, the bad, and the ugly

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Given this list of positives, our previously liste

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Order v. Xaos


Connected philosophy forum (metaphysics, ontology, theology, ethics)    5 Replies

Sci, 2018-04-12, 10:30 PM

Quentin Meillassoux, reason, and hyperchaos

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We shall see below that a certain necessity does enter Meillassoux’s thinking (the necessity of contingency, and the necessit

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Bernardo Kastrup: The Next Paradigm


Philosophy of mind forum    14 Replies

Sci, 2018-04-12, 10:25 PM

The Next Paradigm

Alternate link courtesy of Malf:

https://philpapers.org/archive/KASTNP-2.pdf

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In order to perceive the world, we need more than just raw s

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Marcus Arvan of the P2P Simulation Hypothesis


Interview planning    No Replies

Sci, 2018-04-12, 06:45 PM

Should I put out a request?


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Nature News 2016: People can detect flashes of light as feeble as a single photon


Consciousness science forum    10 Replies

Sci, 2018-04-12, 05:01 PM

Nature News 2016: People can detect flashes of light as feeble as a single photon



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People can detect flashes of light as feeble as a single photon, an experiment has demonstrated — a finding that seems to c

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Physics says you’re an impurity in an otherwise beautiful universe?


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    1 Replies

Sci, 2018-04-12, 03:56 PM

Physics says you’re an impurity in an otherwise beautiful universe.


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The laws of physics seem to act equally in all directions. This is one of the g

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Research grants


General parapsychology    9 Replies

Chris, 2018-04-12, 08:48 AM

Courtesy of the Daily Grail, news that the University of West Georgia is inaugurating a biennial fellowship worth around $3000, open to people "engaged in graduate-level, postdoctoral, or independent research" (though not members of the general public  Huh  ) "working on projects that require on-s

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Savant Twins


General paranormal phenomena forum    No Replies

Kamarling, 2018-04-12, 04:38 AM

My Facebook Newsfeed had a notification from The Daily Grail about this fascinating subject. I'm watching the documentary now.

https://www.dailygrail.com/2017/07/extra...man-twins/




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More than half your body is not human?


Consciousness science forum    12 Replies

Sci, 2018-04-11, 08:48 PM

I think this is possibly going to turn out to be a big deal re: consciousness studies

More than half your body is not human

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Prof Rob Knight, from University of California San Diego, told the BBC: "You're more microbe than you are hum

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Guy Lyon Playfair (1935-2018)


Ghost, poltergeist, and spirit forum    5 Replies

Chris, 2018-04-11, 08:00 AM

The SPR reports the sad news of the death of the veteran parapsychologist Guy Lyon Playfair. He had quite a wide range of interests, but was probably best known as an investigator of the Enfield poltergeist case in the 1970s:
https://www.spr.ac.uk/news/guy-lyon-playfair-1935-2018


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