I have to say that I was surprised to see this article appear on the web site of the New Scientist which has always struck me as a rather conservative, mainstream publication. The NS, unfortunately, only gives limited access to its pages - a couple of free views before the paywall comes down, so I h
I like and respect Donald Hoffmann but I sometimes have difficulty following his language because I'm not familiar with the scientific terms. Quite often he can be found in videos debating with other consciousness theorists like Daniel Dennett and the debate becomes heavily laden with such terminolo
Watched Ex Machina again, and was wondering; are we absolutely "wired" to respond to a likeness of a human, even if we now it is not? Would we be fooled, even though we "know" that we shouldn't? I mean, we mostly would be flipping back
Now, something to note here: I'm talking about actual explanations beyond the usual coincidence and fraud hand waves. As in if psi is a real phenomenon, then could it have a materialistic mechanism? Like what Ed May has tried to claim with his "retrocausality" approach. Just the topic for one second
The recent discussion over whether Bem's "Feeling the Future" deserves retraction, plus claims from parapsychologists about the quality of their work in comparison to psychology, seems to set the bar too low for parapsychology. There is no question that the practices which psychologists engage in (t
Rey Hernandez, co-founder of FREE, has released their findings from surveys of ~ 4,000 ET contactees misnomered as "alien abduction" victims. I have taken the survey, it is three parts, and takes several hours to complete. It is taken anonymously, over a period
This was a rather large controversy a couple years back in the world of psychology, but my question is: does this carry over into parapsychology at all? I've heard a couple times before that the standards of parapsychologists are much more tight then other areas of science in what they publish or no
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