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Engineers design artificial synapse for 'brain-on-a-chip' hardware


Off-topic mainstream science forum    2 Replies

Steve001, 2018-01-22, 04:40 PM

https://m.phys.org/news/2018-01-artifici...dware.html

Packed within the squishy, football-sized organ are somewhere around 100 billion neurons. At any given moment, a single neur

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Freud as a psychical researcher


Psi research forum (ESP and psychokinesis)    3 Replies

Chris, 2018-01-22, 09:41 AM

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page, here is an English version (published in Imago Budapest  Huh ) of a French article which appeared last year in Bulletin de psychologie. The English version is by Renaud Evrard, Claudie Massicotte and Thomas Rabeyron, and is entitled "Freud as a psyc

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Interesting comments by Bruce Greyson


Reincarnation forum    31 Replies

Desperado, 2018-01-22, 04:46 AM

Surprised how inactive this area of the forum is, but nonetheless I hope someone still is paying attention to it! Anyways, I think this was discussed way back but here's a quote direct from an interview with Bruce Greyson where he was asked about western medicine and his opinion on reincarnation cas

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An alternate look at Naturalism


Connected philosophy forum (metaphysics, ontology, theology, ethics)    154 Replies

Valmar, 2018-01-21, 09:49 PM

I was thinking about the word "natural", and then I thought about the philosophy of Naturalism...

Wikipedia states that the philosophy is the "idea or belief that only natural laws and forces operate in the world."

Okay... well, for most, this is synonymous with reductive physicalism and materiali

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Draft for comment: Guidelines for reproducing external content


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Laird, 2018-01-21, 06:47 PM

We forum founders are concerned that guidelines for reproducing external content are agreed upon and put into place. Here is what we propose. Comments welcome:

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

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Ben Radford


Ghost, poltergeist, and spirit forum    9 Replies

Desperado, 2018-01-21, 12:12 AM

Anybody heard of this character, Ben Radford? He seems to be acclaimed (by materialists) as a top paranormal researcher, but he is also part of CSI/CSICOP, which is notorious for it's bias against psi and so forth. Judging from his reviews and articles about people, he rides alot on rhetoric and emo

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Questions for Rudolf Smit and Titus Rivas


Interview planning    8 Replies

Vortex, 2018-01-20, 12:17 PM

Hello everyone,

I want to announce I came with a contact with Rudolf "Smithy" Smit and Titus Rivas, and we decided together to do a trialogue on the subject of veridical NDEs and related intellectual, experiential and social issues.

You're welcome to propose questions we can try to answer and topi

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Melvin Morse arrested. (2012)


Near-death experience (NDE) forum    No Replies

DarthT15, 2018-01-19, 02:27 PM

Kind of an older story, but apparently Morse and his wife were arrested on charges of child abuse towards their daughters.  

http://personalityspirituality.net/2012/...-daughter/


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Should we stop italicising quotes?


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Laird, 2018-01-19, 07:29 AM

There's been a suggestion that we stop italicising quotes. Some proposed reasons for this include:

  • Italics are more tiring to read.
  • The different background colour of quotes is enough to distinguish them from unquoted text anyway.
  • The blanket italicisation of quotes obscur


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RIP Peter Wyngarde


General off-topic forum    No Replies

Chris, 2018-01-18, 07:19 PM

"Iconic" is an over-used word these days, but Peter Wyngarde, who has died at the age of 90, indisputably was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoBVuxuBdIQ


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