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The Scientific Paper Is Obsolete Here’s what’s next.


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    2 Replies

Sci, 2018-04-05, 02:29 PM

The Scientific Paper Is Obsolete: Here’s what’s next.

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The more sophisticated science becomes, the harder it is to communicate results. Papers today are longer than ever and full of jar

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The Devil’s Trill


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    5 Replies

TheRaven, 2018-04-05, 05:34 AM

If you’re a big classical music fan like myself, you’ve undoubtedly heard the spooky and bizarre story of Tartini’s, “The Devils Trill”. For those of you who haven’t, here is the story told by Tartini himself:


“[color=#222222][size=large]One night, in the

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The Amazing Similarities Between Modern Accounts of Near-Death Experiences and the An


Near-death experience (NDE) forum    6 Replies

Sci, 2018-04-05, 03:03 AM

The Amazing Similarities Between Modern Accounts of Near-Death Experiences and the Ancient Tibetan Book of the Dead

https://www.dailygrail.com/2017/12/the-a...-the-dead/

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The idea here is simply t

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Dungeons and Dragons, not chess and Go: why AI needs roleplay


Consciousness science forum    No Replies

Sci, 2018-04-04, 03:44 PM

Dungeons and Dragons, not chess and Go: why AI needs roleplay

https://aeon.co/ideas/dungeons-and-drago...s-roleplay

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But while success in D&D means ‘beating the bad guy’, the game is also a creative sandbox, where failure can count as collective triumph so l

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Neutral Monism: A Saner Solution to the Mind/Body Problem?


Philosophy of mind forum    1 Replies

Sci, 2018-04-03, 10:00 PM

Neutral Monism: A Saner Solution to the Mind/Body Problem

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Physicalism and panpsychism sit either end of a metaphysical seesaw, and when one is in the ascendancy it is only by bringing

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Brainless Embryos Suggest Bioelectricity Guides Growth


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Sci, 2018-04-03, 08:57 PM

Brainless Embryos Suggest Bioelectricity Guides Growth

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This time, however, she was not interested in the brain itself, but in how an African clawed frog would develop without one. She

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Protein involved w/ Internal Bird Compass may involve Quantum Biology


Consciousness science forum    No Replies

Sci, 2018-04-03, 08:36 PM

Birds get their internal compass from this newly ID’d eye protein

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Birds can sense Earth’s magnetic field, and this uncanny ability may help them fly home from unfamiliar places or navigat

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Are we quantum computers? International collaboration will investigate


Consciousness science forum    1 Replies

Sci, 2018-04-03, 08:25 PM

Are we quantum computers? International collaboration will investigate the brain's potential for quantum computation

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Some functions the brain perf

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Chalmers. McQueen, and the Collapse of the Wave Function


Consciousness science forum    1 Replies

Sci, 2018-04-03, 07:58 PM

From McQueen's site:

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Metaphysics of consciousness
In collaboration with David Chalmers (NYU), we are working on formulating mathematically precise and experimentally verifiable formulations of the h

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Chalmers on potential movement toward Idealism


Philosophy of mind forum    19 Replies

Sci, 2018-04-03, 07:16 PM

Idealism and the Mind-Body Problem

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When I was in graduate school, I recall hearing “One starts as a materialist, then one becomes[size=large][font="sans-serif"] a dualist, then a panpsychist, and one en

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