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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.


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    65 Replies

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


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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


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    7 Replies

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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The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    27 Replies

sbu, 2024-04-07, 09:55 AM

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Reductionism became particularly popular during the highly fruitful development of physics in the 20th century. In this context, quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics became paradigmatic examples of the success of reduction as they illustrated that it is possible to describe, explain

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A new Guardian article on near-death experiences


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Laird, 2024-04-02, 04:31 PM

It's the Guardian, so you can guess how it goes. I won't bother to quote from it.

[url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/02/new-science-of-death-brain-activity-consciousness-near-death-experience]The new science of death: ‘There’s something happening in the brain that makes no sense’[/

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