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Atheist defends the Soul: Substance Dualism with Michael Huemer


Philosophy of mind forum    16 Replies

Sci, 2023-11-23, 04:57 PM



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[color=#131313]Dr. Michael Huemer joins me to defend interactionist substance dualism, the view that the mind and body are composed of different substances and can exert causal influence over each other.

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Alien Apologetics w/ @JimmyAkin


UFO/UAP forum    1 Replies

Sci, 2023-11-23, 04:48 PM



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[color=#131313]Wouldn’t aliens manage to avoid crashing their ships, given how advanced they’d have to be? Aren’t the distances between life-supporting planets too vast to feasibly travel? If figures in the government act

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New developments on the UAP disclosure battle


UFO/UAP forum    76 Replies

nbtruthman, 2023-11-23, 04:14 PM

Premier UFO/UAP whistleblower and insider David Grusch was recently interviewed by Joe Rogan, and in a short segment of the interview made some interesting remarks about what he learned as to what is really going on, the driving factors of the current disclosure battle in Congress. According to Grus

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Excellent Primer on unexplained aspects of vision - Gomez-Marin, Sheldrake


Psi research forum (ESP and psychokinesis)    24 Replies

Max_B, 2023-11-23, 03:41 AM

Excellent Primer on unexplained aspects of vision authored by Alex Gomez-Marin & Rupert Sheldrake

https://www.sheldrake.org/files/pdfs/pap...eption.pdf

By the end of the paper, one realises these these unexplained visual issues can be extended into apparitions that ar

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I forgot to introduce myself


Member introductions    1 Replies

LotusFlower, 2023-11-22, 03:18 AM

Hello,

I have been interested in philosophical questions since I was as young as I could remember. I am getting my bachelor's of science in child/adult development, and last year I finished my two year degree in it. I've studied a bit of everything in school for my major, psychology, human develo

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David Grusch & Joe Rogan


UFO/UAP forum    6 Replies

diverdown, 2023-11-21, 09:48 PM

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6D6otpH...ad86cd4ec7

Groundbreaking interview. 

From this interview and then from reading up on what happened at the recent Sol Foundation event, it really seems like within this decade, we will get official disclosure from multinational sourc

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Greetings


Member introductions    2 Replies

Nomad, 2023-11-21, 02:58 AM

Hello friends,

I am a long-time lurker (since Skeptiko was in it's prime, so for more years than I'd like to count) and I have spent a significant amount of my time studying a lot of the subjects that are discussed here daily. I have read many of the books that a lot of you have recommended (Irre

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Near death experience - did he really mean that?


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    42 Replies

sbu, 2023-11-20, 03:33 PM

In another forum a poster brought my attention to an older NDE from a time there was less public awareness about the phenomena. Here's the link:

[url=https://www.philosopher.eu/others-writings/a-j-ayer-what-i-saw-when-i-was-dead/]A. J. Ayer – ‘What I Saw When I Was Dead’ | Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughe

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Making a copy of the old Skeptiko forums available online


Feedback and announcements    7 Replies

Wanderer, 2023-11-19, 06:25 PM

I visited the Skeptiko forum and realised that Alex has deleted one of the subforums, "Consciousness and Science", either by accident or by purpose. I used to lurk on Skeptiko until Psiencequest started, and has been a lurker on Psiencequest since its start, until I got an account here this summer.

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Threshold: New book on terminal lucidity


Afterlife contact forum (deathbed visions, ADC, mediumship)    1 Replies

LotusFlower, 2023-11-19, 06:16 PM

https://www.amazon.com/Threshold-Termina...143&sr=8-1

I really have enjoyed reading this so far. It also has answers to materialist argume

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