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Thread: List of Parapsychological Community Resources
Post: List of Parapsychological Community Resources
| If you are looking for reading material during self-quarantine, take a look at this list of parapsychological community resources compiled by David Metcalfe.
https://davidmetcalfe.wordpress.com/202...
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Thread: Do the Laws of Physics Rule Out the Paranormal?
Post: RE: Do the Laws of Physics Rule Out the Paranormal...
| From above, " ...consciousness can be thought of as a fundamental “field” that interacts with, and is integral to, matter."
The field concept turns out to be very useful for modeling functional met...
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Thread: Do the Laws of Physics Rule Out the Paranormal?
Post: RE: Do the Laws of Physics Rule Out the Paranormal...
| A common argument amongst parapsychologists is that paranormal phenomena can be explained without inventing new science. (I think this is an effort to be more acceptable to mainstream scientise (Norma...
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Thread: A window into Guerrilla Skeptics of Wikipedia
Post: RE: A window into Guerrilla Skeptics of Wikipedia
| Chris, from my editor's perspective, tactics used by the skeptic editors have been refined over the years. There was a lot of talk about Wikipedia Bullying Editors (https://ethericstudies.org/wikipedi...
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Thread: Renewal of hosting
Post: RE: Renewal of hosting
| Yes, that article points to what I experienced and the same players. Now I use plugins.
The Big Circle organically evolved out of the cooperation of several grieving mothers on the ATransC Idea Exc...
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Thread: Humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don’t fit their worldview
Post: RE: Humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don...
| If dualism is reasonably correct, one version is that a person is an immortal personality entangled with a human avatar for this lifetime. You can use other words, but after all of the handwaving abou...
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Thread: Humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don’t fit their worldview
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letseat Wrote: (2020-02-03, 07:30 AM)
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How do you explain altruistic acts within animals such as the one mentioned in this article? https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/goodness-sake/201610/anim...
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Thread: Humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don’t fit their worldview
Post: Humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don’t f...
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https://theconversation.com/humans-are-hardwired-to-dismiss… (https://theconversation.com/humans-are-hardwired-to-dismiss-facts-that-dont-fit-their-worldview-127168?fbclid=IwAR1idN9de_8q9HCg34PMJwS6...
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Thread: A window into Guerrilla Skeptics of Wikipedia
Post: RE: A window into Guerrilla Skeptics of Wikipedia
| Book burners through and through. They are typically not the sort of character that should be allowed around gentlefolk.
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Thread: Renewal of hosting
Post: RE: Renewal of hosting
| I do have issues with Hostgator but after being with a few others, years ago, I just don't have the energy to go migrating into the unknown. Billing has been a problem but is a little better. My main ...
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Thread: What is Panpsychism? | Rupert Sheldrake, Donald Hoffman, Phillip Goff, James Ladyman
Post: RE: What is Panpsychism? | Rupert Sheldrake, Donal...
| I am uncomfortable saying what Sheldrake thinks, so this is Shelkdrake according to Tom.
Panpsychism is the assumption that consciousness emerges from substance as a universal characteristic of mat...
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Thread: What is Panpsychism? | Rupert Sheldrake, Donald Hoffman, Phillip Goff, James Ladyman
Post: RE: What is Panpsychism? | Rupert Sheldrake, Donal...
| I am interested to know what others think of these arguments. For me, a model for consciousness must address the mind-matter expression of intended order we find in Instrumental TransCommunication (IT...
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Thread: Renewal of hosting
Post: RE: Renewal of hosting
| I use Hostgator for three sites. It makes me crazy trying to keep up with how I am supposed to access Billing but the technical help has always been very good. (Never try using their messenger help. I...
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Thread: Galileo Commission Report … Revisited
Post: Galileo Commission Report … Revisited
| Previous conversations about this report (https://psiencequest.net/forums/thread-the-galileo-commission?highlight=galileo (https://psiencequest.net/forums/thread-the-galileo-commission?highlight=galil...
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Thread: SciAm: Beyond Physicalism
Post: RE: SciAm: Beyond Physicalism
| First "survival metaphysics." I began using the term in my writing after spending a lot of time trying to explain the dominant points of view represented in parapsychology. All parapsychologists study...
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Thread: SciAm: Beyond Physicalism
Post: RE: SciAm: Beyond Physicalism
| To paraphrase Hugh Hefner of Playboy fame, mainstream philosophers and survival metaphysicians are talking about the same concepts. One of them is very wrong.
This paragraph from the article tells ...
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Thread: Beyond Panpsychism : the radicality of phenomenology
Post: RE: Beyond Panpsychism : the radicality of phenome...
| I am not likely to be mistaken as a scholar, so it may not be reasonable for me to expect to see the sensibility in his first sentence: "Pure experience is beyond (or below) the level of being, and ha...
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Thread: Discussion sites versus social media
Post: RE: Discussion sites versus social media
| I maintain a discussion board for the ATransC (ghost town). As Facebook became popular, participation dropped to near zero. The last blowout we had amongst participants is one of the reasons we droppe...
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Thread: How Certain Are You That PSI Effects Are Real?
Post: RE: How Certain Are You That PSI Effects Are Real?
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stephenw Wrote: (2019-10-21, 03:43 PM)
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Thanks for the thorough answer. I find your assertions of what events happen - to be quite right. On the other hand, I am driving toward the acceptance of ...
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Thread: How Certain Are You That PSI Effects Are Real?
Post: RE: How Certain Are You That PSI Effects Are Real?
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stephenw Wrote: (2019-10-18, 06:26 PM)
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Propagation in a psi "field" is somewhat hard to defend, as the term field has a precise science set of definitions (as a force field) and associated rules f...
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