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What Came Before the Big Bang? | Theory of Embedded Intelligence, Bill Mensch and...


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Sci, 2024-10-13, 05:41 PM



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Could it be a coincidence that two founding fathers of modern day computing, independently from each other, are both coming with theories of consciousness that are idealist in nature? Or does a deep understanding of what

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Understanding Alfred North Whitehead with Matthew David Segall


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Sci, 2024-10-13, 02:55 PM



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Matt Segall, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness Department at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, and the Chair of the Science Advisory Committee for the Cob

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Freeman Dyson - Is Intelligent Design Evidence of God?


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Sci, 2024-10-13, 03:48 AM




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The Mind's Eye (I): The Conditions of Human Consciousness


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Sci, 2024-10-12, 04:52 PM



Quote: Lecture at the University of South Carolina, 15 November 2018



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What If The Cosmological Constant Is NOT Constant?


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Sci, 2024-10-11, 09:56 PM



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We know that the universe is getting bigger. And we know that the speed that the universe is getting bigger is also getting bigger. The standard assumption is that the acceleration rate is itself constant, which will sure

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Finally the astronomical detection of an alien technosignature?


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nbtruthman, 2024-10-11, 04:49 PM

According to these preliminary reports, for the first time an unequivocally alien technosignature (in the form of clearly artificial radio spectrum transmissions) has been detected by elements of the SETI program. If it is finally formally announced, confirmed and scientific papers written about it,

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The Mystery of Consciousness: Dr. Iain McGilchrist’s Keynote


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Sci, 2024-10-10, 06:34 PM



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Prepare to have your understanding of consciousness transformed. In this captivating keynote, world-renowned philosopher and neuroscientist Dr. Iain McGilchrist delves into the depths of the human mind, exploring how the

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CAN THE PRESENT SHAPE THE PAST? ...A conversation...


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Sci, 2024-10-10, 05:22 PM



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Bernard Carr is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Queen Mary, University of London. He has worked on black holes with Stephen Hawking, alongside other aspects of cosmology, and has also been president of

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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


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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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