Consciousness science forum    No Replies

General parapsychology    53 Replies

This is the companion thread for Sci's The A Priori Case for the Paranormal? thread, in which that thread's contents can be discussed. This thread was seeded by having existing meta posts split out of that one at

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General parapsychology    12 Replies

My using "a priori" here means before even looking at any evidence [from parapsychology], one can make a case for the paranormal.

Off the top of my head a few things I think are worth covering:

- Irreducibility of Consciousness, which then includes the impossibility of "physical" matter to sto

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Near-death experience (NDE) forum    41 Replies

One thing that’s always bothered me about the claim from NDE’ers’ that it is “more real than real” or “more real than this reality,” is that ..

[color=#000000][size=1][font="UICTFontTextStyleBody"]Back in the day, when younger

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Connected philosophy forum (metaphysics, ontology, theology, ethics)    No Replies

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[color=#131313]This presentation was delivered at the Munich School of Philosophy in Munich, Germany for the 13th International Whitehead Conference, July 26-29. An expanded form of the presentation will be published in P

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

COSMOS MIND AND LIFE: Is Mind in Spacetime?

S. Kauffman, S Patra

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Abstract

We attempt in this article to formulate a conceptual and testable framework weaving Cosmos, Mind and Life into a whole. We build on four recent

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Near-death experience (NDE) forum    2 Replies

Near-death experiences have long inspired afterlife beliefs

G. Shushan

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... NDEs have been popularly recognised in the West sin

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Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    50 Replies

This is a quite in depth article and I think anybody who is more deeply interested in the subject (Tim?) might take a look and tell us where it goes wrong.  It attempts to prove that NDEs are merely hallucinations.

[url=https://infidels.org/library/modern/keith-augustine-hndes/]https://infidels.o

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Near-death experience (NDE) forum    17 Replies

An exceptionally weak debunking article about NDEs:


Explaining the near-death experience


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Every few weeks, an attention seeker – er, truth seeker – raves to a media outlet about what they experienc

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Consciousness science forum    3 Replies

Advanced Meditation Alters Consciousness and Our Basic Sense of Self

Matthew D. Sacchet & Judson A. Brewer

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...In the media and in academia, meditation is often s

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