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Something has gone very wrong with the SPR's psi encyclopaedia


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    17 Replies

Chris, 2018-02-04, 12:16 AM

The SPR's psi encyclopaedia was intended to be an antidote to the unbalanced sceptical coverage of psi by Wikipedia. But judging by material like this, I feel it's in danger of ending up equally unbalanced in the opposite direction:
https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/artic...r-death-co

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Why Machines Will Never be Conscious


Philosophy of mind forum    2 Replies

Valmar, 2018-02-01, 06:51 AM

Why Machines Will Never be Conscious

http://www.novaspivack.com/science/why-m...-conscious


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Hermit of Loreto


General paranormal phenomena forum    2 Replies

Slorri, 2018-01-31, 11:49 PM

Now this was interesting.
A hermit in Loreto, Italy, had a premonition and a wish back in 1980; About a certain man in our time.

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Correlation vs Causation


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    125 Replies

Desperado, 2018-01-31, 08:36 PM

Hoping to draw more attention to this, but I've long pondered the use of "correlation" over "causation" in the case of discussing neuroscience, and the motives behind making such alternative explanations? One author seems to think it's almost out of desperation

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Michael Cremo


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    1 Replies

Chris, 2018-01-31, 10:25 AM

On Skeptiko, dpdownsouth posted a link to a talk by Michael Cremo, a researcher inspired by the Hindu Puranas, about evidence of human existence far earlier than conventional archaeologists believe:



Another poster referred to t

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Video-Paper On the Mandela Effect


Psi research forum (ESP and psychokinesis)    13 Replies

Pssst, 2018-01-30, 03:06 PM

"25,000 people took this quiz: http://www.quiz-maker.com/QRVR3A. Their results have been analyzed and gues

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NDE Embellishment


Near-death experience (NDE) forum    1 Replies

Desperado, 2018-01-30, 11:56 AM

Anybody here familiar with Keith Augustine knows he has been debated heavily by NDE proponents everywhere, and even though he is one of the most well versed skeptics I've seen, his arguments still fall flat. But nonetheless, I found this quote interesting from him
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Life Reviews


Near-death experience (NDE) forum    10 Replies

Desperado, 2018-01-30, 06:51 AM

Always found the "life review" phenomenon in NDEs as being a definite anomaly in the experiences. Not as totally compelling as the more objective/paranormal happenings in these experiences, but nonetheless very intriguing. So far, this is the only thing close to a "skeptical" explanation I've seen g

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Dream Telepathy Experiment


Psi research forum (ESP and psychokinesis)    2 Replies

Chris, 2018-01-29, 10:08 AM

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page, here's some information about a dream telepathy experiment which someone called Sarah Janes is organising for Wednesday night. She is planning to project a pre-determined image when (if?) she is lucid, and the idea is for other people to become lucid and pick it up

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Guidelines for reproducing external content


Introduction, rules, and guides    1 Replies

Laird, 2018-01-29, 09:24 AM

When reproducing on Psience Quest content from elsewhere, we need to be both courteous and law-abiding.

To be law-abiding means to respect copyright restrictions on the reproduction of the content of others, but beyond that, courtesy anyway suggests not reproducing significant portions of the wor

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