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Award Winning Physicists Make Quantum Mechanics Even More Weird


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    No Replies

Sci, 2024-11-15, 10:55 PM



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The video features Prof. Dr. Caslav Brukner, Prof. Dr. Renato Renner and Dr. Eric Cavalcanti, who just won the Paul Ehrenfest Best Paper Award for Quantum Foundations. Their different no-go theorems make us reconsider the

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Alastair McIntosh: What Brings Nature into Being?


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    No Replies

Sci, 2024-11-15, 04:09 PM




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Non-Cartesian Substance Dualism


Philosophy of mind forum    55 Replies

Sci, 2024-11-14, 06:50 PM

Non-Cartesian Substance Dualism

EJ Lowe

[quote]Substance dualism in the philosophy of mind is, naturally enough, commonly thought of on a Cartesian model, according to which it is a dualism of two radically different kind

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The Universal Disciple & The Light Magician


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    1 Replies

Sci, 2024-11-14, 04:27 PM

The Universal Disciple & The Light Magician

Tommie Kelly

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What if the Big Bang, that great event that marked the beginning of time, was not just the birth of the Universe but also the birth of a Divine C

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The perils of smuggling metaphysics into science


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Sci, 2024-11-13, 06:17 PM

The perils of smuggling metaphysics into science

A. A. Adedire 

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The acquiescence of physicalism within the broader cultural milieu allows for the smuggling of assumptions into scien

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What came first, the spirit or the myth?


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    7 Replies

Valmar, 2024-11-10, 08:13 AM

I've been wondering lately... when it comes to spiritual entities ~ the Scandinavian elves, gnomes, Native American spirits and spiritual entities like Mother Ayahuasca, the Japanese kami, Chinese spirits, etc, etc... can we so easily say what came first, the spiritual entities or the myths and stor

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An excellent concise and accurate statement of the interactive dualism theory of mind


Consciousness science forum    218 Replies

nbtruthman, 2024-11-09, 07:18 PM

Stafford Betty (Professor of Religious Studies at CSUB) posted this short essay in his blog at White Crow Books. Of course, my own view goes completely along with Stafford's.

http://whitecrowbooks.com/staffordbetty/...ciousness/

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At death th

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Al Pacino Brush with Death


Near-death experience (NDE) forum    No Replies

Typoz, 2024-11-08, 11:57 AM

A recent article in 'Variety' carries the headline,

Al Pacino Nearly Died From COVID and Reveals ‘My Pulse Was Gone’: ‘I Didn’t See the White Light or Anything. There’s Nothing There’

To me that's fa

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Grandmother's NDE and end of life experiences


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Smaw, 2024-11-08, 09:21 AM

Finally built up the effort to make a post about stuff. This last year I was taking care of my wife's 98 year old  great Grandmother, 'Yaiyai' I called her. Lovely old lady, was an absolute menace my job was more stopping her from doing stuff and hurting herself rather than actually helping her. Las

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The Final Speech from The Great Dictator


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Sci, 2024-11-07, 07:45 PM



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Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledg

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