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Your Very Own Consciousness Can Interact With the Whole Universe, Scientists Believe


Consciousness science forum    1 Replies

LotusFlower, 2023-10-21, 05:03 PM

Saw this on r/consciousness. It's paywalled so here's the web archive version.
https://web.archive.org/web/202310191400...ciousness/


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Two more apparition cases


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Max_B, 2023-10-21, 12:00 PM

[quote]In the next two cases the apparition, which was seen some hours after death, conforms more nearly to the orthodox conception of a "ghost" a discarnate spirit. The first case was originally narrated verbally to the late F. W. H. Myers by Lady Gore Booth, who afterwards wrote to him the letter

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DASH Diet May Be A Shield Against Memory Loss in Women


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Sci, 2023-10-21, 11:55 AM

DASH Diet May Be A Shield Against Memory Loss in Women

Unaccredited

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This discovery has significant ramifications as women constitute over two-thirds of Alzheimer’s disease diagnoses. The study holds potential imp

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Pseudoskeptism and acceptable versus unacceptable science [split from "infant consciousness"]


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Silence, 2023-10-20, 01:26 PM

(2023-10-19, 07:55 PM)Kamarling Wrote: Somewhat loaded, wouldn't you agree? Like it is taken as a given that consciousness arises rather than consciousness is present from the get-go.

They just can't help themselves and in so doing risk a further erosion in confidence.

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Quantum mechanics and the puzzle of subjectivity


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Sci, 2023-10-19, 06:01 PM

Quantum mechanics and the puzzle of subjectivity

Steven French 

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[i]Despite their huge success, the natural sciences have a problem: they don’t seem to leave much room for the human subject. Edmund Husserl thought this was reason e

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Helmut Gombocz' Near-Death Experience


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Typoz, 2023-10-19, 09:13 AM

I don't know which section this belongs in, it seems more of a life story or biography than just an NDE account.

This is an account I selected somewhat at random - yet maybe not.
There were a couple of things I recognised and connected with. One, Helmut describes being very small, 'like a pea'

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Science of Consciousness: The Elephant in the Room


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Sci, 2023-10-19, 03:09 AM

Science of Consciousness: The Elephant in the Room

Joshua R. Farris and Alin C. Cucu

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Materialists typically believe that science alone can do the trick. Science has had great success in expla

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The case for why our Universe may be a giant neural network


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Sci, 2023-10-19, 03:01 AM

The case for why our Universe may be a giant neural network

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Neuroscientist and author Bobby Azarian explores the idea that the Universe is a self-organizing system that evolves and learns.

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New research sheds fresh light on mystery of infant consciousness


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Sci, 2023-10-19, 02:57 AM

New research sheds fresh light on mystery of infant consciousness

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In the study, entitled ‘Consciousness in the cradle: on the emergence of infant experience’, the research

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Another attack on free will


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nbtruthman, 2023-10-18, 08:45 PM

There is a new and interesting article on free will research. This in the LA Times, at https://www.latimes.com/science/story/20...mined-book .

This article is mainly to cover a new and innova

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