Geller was mentioned in another thread but I didn't want to derail that so I thought it might be interesting to open a new thread in case anyone has studied the guy. I've been aware of him since he hit the headlines in the 70's but have vacillated between being impressed and feeling conned. In the e
This thread is closed to replies, it is for voting only: if you want to discuss this issue/poll, please do so in the thread, The question of political / conspiracy theory content. I'm setting things up this way not to be a petty
Important and interesting study of rodent brain activity using an asphyxial cardiac arrest model published April 2017. It shows interesting neural correlates of consciousness at near electrocerebral silence.
In cases of abrupt loss of blood circulation from cardiac arrest, a silent scalp EEG is r
For the purposes of this thread, I'd like members to assign a percentage to telepathy, PK, precognition, survival of consciousness and mediumship in terms of their likelihood of being real.
The reason I like these kinds of exercises is that they show us how few people there are in the "all basic
The BBC reports that a new company, Eternime (geddit?), plans to "combine your social footprint ... with artificial intelligence", so that people will be able to carry on posting on social media after they die: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40935790
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Trying to get the MyAlerts plugin to display more alert types than just Likes, I'm going to install the latest version. If something goes wacky with the alert system, that's why. Will do my best to avoid problems.
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