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By Our Bootstraps: An Egregorial Model of Reality


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Sci, 2024-04-23, 04:44 PM



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[color=#131313]The relationship between consciousness, that is, “awareness,” and the physical universe has been an ongoing mystery to modern science. Indeed, in 1995 Australian philosopher David Chalmers called this the ‘

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Thoughts are more real than objects


Philosophy of mind forum    4 Replies

Sci, 2024-04-22, 04:53 AM

Thoughts are more real than objects

Jeremy Dunham, PhD 

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Idealism is often regarded as a philosophy entailing that the world exists just in our heads, which is obviously false. Rising philosophic

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SETI chief says US has no evidence for alien technology.


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    6 Replies

sbu, 2024-04-18, 08:20 AM

Quote:The idea that the government is keeping something like this secret is just totally absurd. There's no motivation to do so.

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To help visualize why, Diamond urges people to try a thought experiment.

If you sent that spacecraft to our closest neighbor star, Alpha

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Trashing natural selection as a special case.


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stephenw, 2024-04-17, 09:05 PM

Quote: Evolution of plants, animals: “A very special case within a far larger natural phenomenon.” Similar marvels occur with stars, planets, minerals, other complex systems; When a novel configuration works well and function improves, evolution occurs.

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Mind is not what it seems: On the mental foundation of the world


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Sci, 2024-04-15, 02:29 PM

Mind is not what it seems: On the mental foundation of the world

A. A. Adedire, BS, BA

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In this short and direct essay, A. A. Adedire argues a key philosophical point

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Underwater UAPs, and the controversy continues with a new authoritative figure


UFO/UAP forum    4 Replies

nbtruthman, 2024-04-11, 03:44 PM

The UAP/UFO controversy and claims of cover-ups from high in the administration refuse to go away. And a new highly qualified, ranked, and authoritative figure has entered into the fray and has identified another dimension to it - the threat of alien underwater vehicles and the history of their obse

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Fourth dream experience I had


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LotusFlower, 2024-04-10, 12:16 AM

I want to assume naturalistic explanations for it beforehand because people are grieving right now. With one of my last dream experiences I posted too, I never pursued the man that the dream told me had a crush on me. 

In the Idealism discord server I'm in, one of our moderators just ended their li

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The Sense of the Zombie


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Sci, 2024-04-09, 09:50 PM

The Sense of the Zombie

Craig Weinberg

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A couple of things about the Zombie argument.

1. I think that the use of term zombie introduces unnecessary distractions due to the associations with supernatural or

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Refuting Strong Emergence


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Sci, 2024-04-09, 05:49 PM

Refuting Strong Emergence

Craig Weinberg 

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...Physics, chemistry, and biology may have their own special laws, but they are laws about physical, concrete, tangible phenomena, not feelings, perceptions

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The amazing parallels between the Kabbalah and physics


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    4 Replies

Sci, 2024-04-08, 02:07 PM



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[color=#131313]In this interview, Natalia Vorontsova discusses consciousness and science from the perspective of Kabbalistic Panpsychism with Prof. Dr. Hyman Schipper. The parallels between quantum physics and the ancient

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