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Susan Blackmore's accusations against Daryl Bem


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    11 Replies

Chris, 2018-01-08, 03:59 PM

In a comment on [url=http://psience

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PSI (or cognitive illusion?)


Psi research forum (ESP and psychokinesis)    9 Replies

Desperado, 2018-01-08, 08:58 AM

An evocative title for a thread, I know. But I'm just quoting the paper I'm including.

I'm no militant psi skeptic, however this paper has me stumped. It's apparently related to the Ganzfeld experiments. But that's where my understanding of it's relevancy goes. 

I talked to Dean Radin about it

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The Past Life Story


Members' general personal experiences    10 Replies

Mediochre, 2018-01-08, 08:47 AM

This thread is the companion thread to: http://psiencequest.net/forums/thread-me...ap-s-story

I’ve been holding off writing about my alleged past life story because I know how crazy it’s going to sound and I didn’t know if I wanted to deal with the headache. I also didn’t know if

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Hello everyone


Member introductions    5 Replies

Desperado, 2018-01-08, 08:43 AM

As the thread says, hi all,

To make a long story short, I drifted here from Skeptiko back over the summer. I made an account in July (Funkysoul78) but never got round to using it because of other business getting in the way. By the time I remembered I had a profile, everything had hit the fan in

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Call for retraction of "Feeling the Future"


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Chris, 2018-01-07, 12:50 PM

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page, here's a new post on the "Replicability Index", entitled "Why the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Should Retract ... “Feeling the Future ...” by Daryl J. Bem":
[url=https://replicationindex.wordpress.com/2018/01/05/why-the-journal-of-personality-and-s

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Awake Under Anesthesia


Consciousness science forum    2 Replies

Ninshub, 2018-01-06, 07:53 AM

Article by Joshua Rothman in the New Yorker: Awake Under Anesthesia. Start of the article:

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One day in the nineteen-eighties, a woman went to the hospital for cancer surgery. The procedure was a succ

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Consciousness as epiphenomenon


Consciousness science forum    21 Replies

fls, 2018-01-05, 06:37 PM

Paul has mentioned, more than once, a (fatal?) criticism of regarding consciousness as an epiphenomenon. I started this thread because I don't think I understand this criticism.

[quote='Paul C. Anagnostopoulos' pid='12169' dateline='1512856995']
If consciousness is an epiphenomenon, then how is

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A friends anomalous experience


Members' general personal experiences    6 Replies

diverdown, 2018-01-05, 03:43 AM

My friend once told me a story that is just down right bizarre. Now first of all, my friend is quite the skeptic, along with being rational. He is not the type of person to make up anything and he has good attention to detail. Whenever we would talk about the big questions, or even things that I've

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Extreme feeling of G force in dreams


Members' dreams    11 Replies

diverdown, 2018-01-04, 08:40 PM

Sometimes I get this, and it happened to me last night for the first time in a while. I've never really understood what it was or how the brain could create such an experience.

It could be a car crash, or being on a lift that free falls, or falling off a high place. The dreamscape at this time is u

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The Zoo Hypothesis


UFO/UAP forum    8 Replies

nbtruthman, 2018-01-03, 08:52 PM

Radio astronomer John A. Ball wrote a good paper on ETI some years ago (2004), entitled "Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Where is Everybody?". Some of his science is a little dated, but it is still interesting. He likes the Zoo Hypothes

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