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Quantum Retrocausation papers from 2017 American Institute of Physics Conference


Psi research forum (ESP and psychokinesis)    3 Replies

Sci, 2017-11-05, 02:49 AM

Quantum Retrocausation

https://carlossalvarado.wordpress.com/20...causation/

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Several papers on the topic of quantum retrocausation appear in the current issue of the AIP Conference Proceedings, published by the American Institute of Physics (to see the papers click 

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Santa Muerte: Our Lady of Holy Death


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    4 Replies

Sci, 2017-11-04, 07:16 PM

From 2014, would be curious to see current growth rate of the faith ->

Our Lady of the Holy Death Is the World's Fastest Growing Religious Movement

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4w7pz...harebutton

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Book: Science and Spiritual Practices


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    1 Replies

Typoz, 2017-11-04, 06:04 PM

Recently published in the UK, Rupert Sheldrake's new book:

Science and Spiritual Practices: Transformative experiences and their effects on our bodies, brains and health

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In this pioneering b

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The Penn Ghost Project


General off-topic forum    17 Replies

Steve001, 2017-11-04, 05:21 PM

We Asked An Expert Why People Believe In—and Hunt—Ghosts

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How important is it to convince the scientific community that psi exists?


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    67 Replies

Chris, 2017-11-04, 04:38 PM

How important is it to convince the scientific community that psi exists?

[Edit: Immediately after posting this thread I realised the question might not make much sense to people who don't think psi does exist. If sceptics want to take part, perhaps they can make the question: "How important [i]sho

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research is improving depends on whom you ask


Off-topic mainstream science forum    1 Replies

Steve001, 2017-11-04, 12:36 PM

For more than a decade, psychology has been contending with some of its research findings going up in smoke. Widely publicized [url=https://www.sciencenews.org/article/psychology-results-evaporate-upon

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How to find valid information?


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    10 Replies

fls, 2017-11-04, 12:09 PM

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Let's start here: What method do you advise a layman, such as myself, employ?

As I believe I've made clear by now, I think the question of proper authority is a very difficult issue and made even more difficult when authorities opine on topic

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How to make a conscious robot (maybe)


Consciousness science forum    2 Replies

nbtruthman, 2017-10-31, 10:43 PM

A review article has appeared in Science about how understanding human consciousness can lead to conscious AI systems. The article is behind a paywall, but has been popularized at Live Science (www.livescience.com/60789-how-to-make-a-conscious-robot.html). 


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"Researchers have identified

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Ghostwatch


General off-topic forum    4 Replies

Chris, 2017-10-30, 10:13 AM

25 years ago the BBC created a stir by transmitting a drama in the form of a live broadcast about a haunted house - based on the Enfield poltergeist - which some viewers apparently thought was a real live broadcast. The subsequent suicide of a teenage boy was blamed on the programme. The BBC website

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Alan Turing and psi


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    22 Replies

Chris, 2017-10-30, 01:22 AM

Alan Turing, the mid-20th-century logician and pioneer of computing, wrote in 1950, in the course of a discussion about whether machines could think, the following:

[i][color=#000000][size=medium][font="Times New Roman"]I assume that the reader is familiar with the idea of extrasensory perception,

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