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Nobel prize 2024 - magic just got less wriggle room


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sbu, 2024-10-10, 08:57 AM

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemis...s-release/

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 is about pro­teins, life’s ingenious chemical tools. David Baker has succeeded with the almost impossible feat of building entirely new kinds of proteins. Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have

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A new formerly unrevealed underlying Pentagon UFO program


UFO/UAP forum    4 Replies

nbtruthman, 2024-10-09, 03:31 PM

It gets deeper. There still may be no actual "smoking gun" of actual physical evidence, but a new article has revealed via some new whistleblowers an up to now ultra classified beyond top secret UFO investigatory program (actually an “Unacknowledged Special Access Program,”) in Pentagon Strategic In

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All Things Are Full Of Gods by David Bentley Hart. A summary and discussion


Connected philosophy forum (metaphysics, ontology, theology, ethics)    1 Replies

Sci, 2024-10-08, 02:11 AM



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[color=#131313]All Things Are Full Of Gods is David Bentley Hart’s philosophical case for an idealist and theist understanding of consciousness, understood as an intertwining of mind, language and life. As he puts it: “Mi

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Jaron Lanier - Is Consciousness an Illusion?


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Sci, 2024-10-06, 09:29 PM



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[color=#131313]Is consciousness something special in the universe, its own category, irreducible to physical laws, a carrier of meaning and purpose? Or is consciousness a mere artifact of the brain, a by-product of evolution, a supersti

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Force Fields, Behind the Fog of Maths: Sheldrake–Vernon Dialogue


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    1 Replies

Sci, 2024-10-06, 05:05 PM



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[color=#131313]Einstein remarked that there was physics before Maxwell and physics after Maxwell, the difference being the introduction of modern field theory. So what difference did fields make

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Henry Stapp - Is Consciousness an Illusion?


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Sci, 2024-10-06, 04:20 PM



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[color=#131313]Is consciousness something special in the universe, its own category, irreducible to physical laws, a carrier of meaning and purpose? Or is consciousness a mere artifact of the brain, a by-product of evolut

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Near-Death Experiences And Quantum Physics: Is There A Connection?


Near-death experience (NDE) forum    No Replies

Sci, 2024-10-05, 07:55 PM



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[color=#131313]In general, quantum physics is very often cited when it comes to paranormal experiences or, more generally, to an idealistic understanding of the world. But is there really a connection between near-death e

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The Origins of Evil and Qlippoth in the Divine - Kabbalah - w/‪@drangelapuca


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    3 Replies

Sci, 2024-10-04, 03:23 PM



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[color=#131313]How does Kabbalah explain the origins of Evil? Famous for the Sefirot, Kabbalah also introduced the notion of the Shattering of the Vessels, the demonic Klippot (husks/shells) and the nightmare reality of

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Space-Time: The Biggest Problem in Physics


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    1 Replies

Sci, 2024-09-29, 11:22 PM



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[color=#131313]What is the deepest level of reality? In this Quanta explainer, Vijay Balasubramanian, a physicist at the University of Pennsylvania, takes us on a journey through space-time to investigate what it’s made

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Is the Universe Theologically Ambiguous?


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Sci, 2024-09-29, 10:25 PM



Quote:Scientists split on whether the universe confirms or denies God. Though most leading scientists do not believe in God, some do.

What can we learn from the dispute?



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