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Bluegrass and the Evolution of Human Consciousness


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Sci, 2024-02-28, 12:58 PM

Bluegrass and the Evolution of Human Consciousness

Adam Jacobs

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On some level or at some point, we're all know-it-alls. We have formed our opinions, made our choices, and have a deep and pervasive drive to

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The Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead:Understanding Reality and the Psychedelic...


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Sci, 2024-02-27, 05:44 PM

As usual, all warnings about psychedelic use apply

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[url=https://psychedelicstoday.com/2023/12/05/pt466-john-h-buchanan-

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Fake scientific papers push research credibility to crisis point


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Sci, 2024-02-27, 05:19 PM

‘The situation has become appalling’: fake scientific papers push research credibility to crisis point

Robin McKie

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Avicenna, Aquinas, and Leibniz on the argument from contingency


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Sci, 2024-02-26, 04:34 PM

Avicenna, Aquinas, and Leibniz on the argument from contingency

E. Feser

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Avicenna, Aquinas, and Leibniz all present versions of what would today be called the argument from contingency for

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Bono on Jesus


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Brian, 2024-02-26, 02:41 PM

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/frankviola/bono-on-jesus/


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But the way we would see it, those of us who are trying to figure out our Christian conundrum, is that the God of the Old Testament is like the journey from stern

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James Webb telescope finds ancient galaxy larger than our Milky Way


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sbu, 2024-02-26, 02:05 PM

It's no secret that I'm a big fan of what evidence-based science can teach us. Standard cosmology has been showing signs of strain for various reasons, including the inability to obtain consistent measurements of the Hubble constant. Moreover, incoming evidence from the James Webb Space Telescope ha

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Beyond scientism: Re-humanizing the mind


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Sci, 2024-02-26, 03:39 AM

Beyond scientism: Re-humanizing the mind

Dr. Giuseppina D’Oro 

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Reductionism is no longer fashionable in philosophy of mind—the days when the idea that mental states ar

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The Mindlessness of Computationalism


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Sci, 2024-02-25, 08:18 PM

The Mindlessness of Computationalism: The Neglected Aspects of Cognition

D. Hutto

[quote]If Von Eckhardt is correct, when cognitive scientists assume the ‘mind is a computer’ and

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The Fall into the phenomenal: How idealism can help the Creation story....


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Sci, 2024-02-19, 07:00 PM

The Fall into the phenomenal: How idealism can help the Creation story converge with deep scientific truth

Androu Arsanious, BS, MBA 


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The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]


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Valmar, 2024-02-17, 06:32 AM

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Isn't this like asking how a person can be separate from their car?

Neutral Monism isn't denying a soul/body distinction, it's saying both the soul and the body are made of the same ultimate "stuff".

Admittedly the discussion of "s

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