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Insects and Other Animals [Possibly] Have Consciousness


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Sci, 2024-05-13, 07:49 PM

Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness, Experts Declare

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A group of prominent biologists and philosophers announced a new consensus: There’s “a realistic possibility” tha

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The Recognition Problem in consciousness research


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Sci, 2024-05-13, 07:29 PM

The Recognition Problem in consciousness research

Anoop Kumar, MD, MMgt 

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To complement the well-known Hard Problem of consciousness, Dr. Kumar introduces the Recognition Problem: [

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Very many discontinuities in the fossil record disprove neo-Darwinism


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nbtruthman, 2024-05-13, 01:23 AM

The many major discontinuities or "explosions" in the fossil record and the overall evolution of life on Earth disprove Neo-Darwinism.

Perhaps the most basic failure of Neo-Darwinism is the ubiquitous occurence from the origin of life through the entire fossil record including human evolution of ma

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Atheists who defend Intelligent Design


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    5 Replies

Brian, 2024-05-12, 09:39 PM

Jeffery Jay Lowder, an atheist philosopher refutes God of the gaps accusations against ID.

[url=https://evolutionnews.org/2024/02/atheist-philosopher-explains-why-id-is-not-a-god-of-the-gaps-argument/]https://evolutionnews.org/2024/02/atheist-philosopher-explains-why-id-is-not-a-god-of-the-gaps-a

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Threshold: Terminal Lucidity and the Border of Life and Death by Alexander Batthyány


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sbu, 2024-05-12, 07:29 PM

I have been reading this book over the last few days and must conclude that it has been a positive surprise. While I only learned a modest amount of new things related to terminal lucidity (the basics can, after all, easily be Googled), reading about terminal lucidity was not the main motivation for

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The UFO crash retrieval/reverse engineering black project issue refuses to be quashed


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nbtruthman, 2024-05-11, 04:02 PM

The UFO black project issue in Washington and the DOD simply refuses to go away despite all efforts to quash it. How much smoke will be required to be sure there's a fire? There's an awful lot accumulated so far on this issue. The truth keeps stubbornly trying to raise its ugly head. To demonstrate

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John Bauer


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Brian, 2024-05-09, 08:06 PM

John Bauer is a Swedish artist who was trapped by the enchantment of the forest and once said he never painted anything he hadn't seen.  This is an unusual claim in context because of the things he painted.


[img]https://uploads1.wikiart.org/images/john-bauer/look-at-my-sons-you-won-t-find-more-

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[split] Some thoughts from Jacques Vallee


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Brian, 2024-05-08, 07:13 PM

Jacques Vallee???  I give up!


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Some thoughts from Jacques Vallee


UFO/UAP forum    No Replies

nbtruthman, 2024-05-08, 04:19 PM

The following quote is a key short excerpt from a lengthy new interview on UFOs with grand master UFO investigator and theorist Jacques Vallee by Jeffrey Kripal, at https://www.documentjournal.com/2024/05/...nology-ai/.

As can be seen, Vallee takes the

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Another nearly normal man without a brain


Consciousness science forum    1 Replies

nbtruthman, 2024-05-08, 03:16 PM

From Quora: In 2007 in France, a 44-year-old man went to the doctor complaining of numbness in his leg and underwent a brain CT scan that revealed a shocking truth:
 
That man didn't have 90% of his brain. The skull was almost entirely filled with cerebrospinal fluid and all that remained of the b

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