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Marco Biagini: arguments against epiphenomenalism


Philosophy of mind forum    6 Replies

Ninshub, 2023-07-15, 07:18 PM

This person should be a member of this forum!

THE BRAIN DOES NOT GENERATE MIND AND CONSCIOUSNESS



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[color=#d900a7][font="Georgia"]I am a physicist and I will explain why our scientific knowledge refutes the

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Evolved Hardware


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    No Replies

Max_B, 2023-07-15, 05:49 PM

I somehow missed the work of Jon Bird and Paul Layzell - the former also from COGS at Sussex University, where Adrian Thompson hailed from.

Brilliant paper from 2002, showing hardware evolvolution making full use of it's environment.

https://thinkingdeeper.files.wordpress.c.../evolved-r

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Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    10 Replies

RViewer88, 2023-07-15, 05:20 AM

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Foreign Accent Syndrome


General off-topic forum    25 Replies

Typoz, 2023-07-13, 04:18 PM

I was sure this topic (Foreign Accent Syndrome) must have been mentioned before somewhere on the forum but my searches have failed to find it.

Anyway, from BBC news,
Lincolnshire woman wakes up with Welsh accent
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Remote viewing of the future:- sample predictions


Psi research forum (ESP and psychokinesis)    6 Replies

nbtruthman, 2023-07-12, 07:55 PM

Food for thought: remote viewing techniques used for future predictions. It will be interesting to get the final presented paper.

Excerpts from the Abstract of a paper to be presented at the upcoming 41st annual conference of the Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE):

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2060: A TESTED PRO

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Evolution without accidents and also no intelligence?


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    115 Replies

nbtruthman, 2023-07-10, 12:48 AM

Leading evolutionary biologist James Shapiro has written a new very interesting but still basically wrong thinking article in Aeon, Evolution without accidents - Why Did Darwin's 20th Century Followers Get Evolution So Wrong, at https://aeon.co/essays/why-did-darwins-2...-get-evolu

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Members' general personal experiences    7 Replies

RViewer88, 2023-07-08, 01:58 AM

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Interesting experience.


Members' general personal experiences    8 Replies

Max_B, 2023-07-07, 10:17 PM

I've been working with a friend over the last 4 years, to help him produce and publish his musical compositions. We're just beginning to release audio singles that he wrote and produced during 2020/21. Today we released his second single. I produced the social media music videos, and promotional vid

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How a neuroscientist came to embrace the reality of acausal synchronicities


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    18 Replies

Sci, 2023-07-07, 03:13 PM

How a neuroscientist came to embrace the reality of acausal synchronicities

Laleh K. Quinn, PhD

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In this courageous and very personal essay, UC San Diego n

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Is your child’s “imaginary friend” imaginary or real? A case study


Ghost, poltergeist, and spirit forum    3 Replies

Sci, 2023-07-07, 03:05 PM

Is your child’s “imaginary friend” imaginary or real? A case study 

Stafford Betty

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She grew up in a house with loving parents and a sister six years her senior. She

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