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
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
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
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
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
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
On another forum, I recently posted up my current perspective on reality, based on a lifetime of exploration, research and experience etc - this is not something I do often. As I was going to post a quick "Happy New Year" here
Quote:Footage captured the moment what appears to be a huge sea creature in the Great Prespa Lake – a massive body of water shared by Albania, Greece and Macedonia.
The film was taken just a week ago, so if it isn't video tamperi
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