There has been a lot of interest in The Simulation Hypothesis as a potential model of our universe, and the 'reality' that we experience. The idea has gained support from such disparate thinkers as David Chalmers and Neil Degrasse Tyson, and there appears to be some mathematics to back it up. From W
I notice that there seems to be a seething anger about the nasty things that happen in the Universe, among a significant number of people, which God often bears the brunt of.
I know there's a thread for text resources but I thought this deserves a thread to itself.
The Psi Encyclopedia is a resource which attempts to provide some balance to the negative bias towards psi that we are used to from Wikipedia, RationalWiki, CS
I thought this was a topical letter from 2014 which provides some useful information that supports my view that the brain can continue to have some function (albeit not wakeful consciousness), well after 20 seconds of cardiac arrest, up to perhaps a few minutes, and that this period of continued fun
Here’s a diagram (Fig. 1.) I produced during 2013, to aid me in thinking about the relationships between the sense of space I experience with different states/senses during wakefulness.
When I say, ‘sense of space’, what I’m really talking about is my perception of the location for each of these
Looking to understand forum users' beliefs in bigfoot. The guy who was installing a door for me yesterday was talking about how bigfoots had been seen here in upstate new york. Curious if anybody here is onboard. I'm a very strong "lean no" for whatever it's worth. Thanks!