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To NDE or not to NDE (re-done)


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Desperado, 2018-01-16, 09:08 AM

To start out, my apologies here. I started a thread with the same intent and name as this one in the Extended Consciousness section of the forum, totally unaware that the member whose ideas I was challenging or hoping to start discussion over couldn't post in it. Whoops :Surprise
Originally Laird

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A Critical Analysis of the Mirror Self-Recognition Test


Consciousness science forum    No Replies

Valmar, 2018-01-15, 09:15 AM

Behind free login-wall, but an interesting critique of the mirror "self-recognition" test, nevertheless:

A Critical Analysis of the Mirror Self-Recognition Test
by Zach Parton

https://www.academia.edu/2525451/A_Criti...ition_Test


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Anaesthesia and the soul


Consciousness science forum    10 Replies

Desperado, 2018-01-15, 08:18 AM

http://www.anesthesiaweb.org/anesthesia-...e-soul.php


I was reading a thread from about a month ago here about anesthesia and consciousness, and in a search for some dualist interpretations of the idea (I'm more of an idealist), I came across this article. Took me a second to realize from th

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Article ~ Why the Miller–Urey Research Argues Against Abiogenesis


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Valmar, 2018-01-14, 02:35 PM

Why the Miller–Urey Research Argues Against Abiogenesis

https://answersingenesis.org/origin-of-l...iogenesis/


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Jello, not only a tasty dessert it's alive - well maybe.


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Steve001, 2018-01-12, 08:41 PM

Way back in 1969 and again in 1974 Dr. Adrian Upton hooked up an EEG machine to a bowl of Jello and got brain like brain waves.

[url=https://io9.gizmodo.com/5946010/why-you-cant-prove-that-jello-is-legally-brain-dead]https://io9.gizmodo.com/5946010/why-you-cant-prove-that-jello-is-legally-brain-d

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Terror Management Theory, Psychology, and Survival evidence


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    6 Replies

Desperado, 2018-01-12, 11:09 AM

Long winded thread title yet again, but I was wondering if anybody is familiar with TMT (Terror Management Theory) in psychology? It's been quite the topic of debate and although it's had a lot of criticisms that I believe are well founded, it's still an interesting topic and does relate to survival

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What podcasts do you listen to?


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Ninshub, 2018-01-12, 03:29 AM

Does anyone here want to share the different podcasts they listen to, whether they're psi-related or not?

And I'm just curious to know if someone has so many podcasts they listen to weekly that listening to a week's releases basically covers all of their podcast-listening time? I.e. they never ha

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The Interbrain


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Chris, 2018-01-11, 09:00 AM

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page, here's a report about a forthcoming book by Professor Digby Tantam of the University of Sheffield, about his theory that we are in continuous subliminal communication with the brains of people nearby, perhaps mediated by "a minute body odor release associated with

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Article: Fish Feel Pain. Now What?


Consciousness science forum    2 Replies

Valmar, 2018-01-10, 01:30 PM

Fish Feel Pain. Now What?

https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/f...-now-what/


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Crazy desision to lock Epiphenomenon thread?


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Max_B, 2018-01-08, 06:07 PM

This forum was set up so we didn’t have such crazy decisions as we were getting on Skeptiko... hands off moderation I thought... yet here we are locking this thread... because... errr... for absolutel

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