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*Sigh* You do realize that the use scientific method isn't restricted to, nor defined by, the dogmas of reductionist materialism / physicalism, right?
Parapsychology is a field that yields very useful results while adhering to the scientific met
Before I doze off for a bit, I'd like to say that, as much as we get pretty deep in certain discussions and take our stances, I must say we are lucky. Although I don't agree with everybody here, I do not think anybody I've witnessed here are fundamentalist in nature. Especially amongst the regulars.
Is the Universe a conscious mind?
by Philip Goff
aeon.co
Cosmopsychism might seem crazy, but it provides a robust explanatory model for how the Universe became fine-tuned for life.
Over at my blogsite Dead but Dreaming I investigate both folkloric and modern faeries, and their place in various theories of consciousness. I hope some PsienceQuest members might enjoy a visit...
John Anthony West was someone who held my interest, along with other "alternative archaeology" figures, throughout most of the 1990s. I enjoyed the way he spiked the hubris of the orthodoxy of Egyptology and I'm sure he will be missed by all in the field.
Courtesy of the Daily Grail, there's an interesting blog article in the Guardian by Chris French and Michael Marshall (of the Merseyside Skeptics [sic] Society), questioning whether a child suffering from severe cerebral palsy is really able to communicate with the help of a facilitator, or whether
I don't remember exactly where I heard it, but I do know I've heard the accusation of dualistic theories of consciousness such as the filter model and the transmission model being unfalsifiable in nature. It seems pretty strange to me, because it seems pretty easy to prove either of these theories w
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