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Thread: Mega-thread for help with rebuttals against skeptical talking points
Post: RE: Mega-thread for help with rebuttals against sk...
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Mediochre Wrote: (2021-02-06, 11:57 PM)
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Y'know, for all the time it sounds like you spend stressing about your inevitable, unavoidable death, you also sound like you're letting your life pass you ...
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Thread: Mega-thread for help with rebuttals against skeptical talking points
Post: RE: Mega-thread for help with rebuttals against sk...
| So the relevant part starts at around 6:47 in the video. She describes how every conscious property has a neural component to it, and that previous sensory experiences are essential to composing 'the ...
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Thread: NDEs and DMT
Post: RE: NDEs and DMT
| Found this article on Reality Sandwich. It's from a guy who, at least based on his very small YT channel, studies psychedelics, altered states of consciousness and philosophies of consciousness.
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Thread: Keith Augustine - NDEs with Hallucinatory Features
Post: RE: Keith Augustine - NDEs with Hallucinatory Feat...
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2021-02-04, 09:24 PM)
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There's also the idea of the Imaginal Space which it seems people pass through or interact with whether it's an NDE, a shamanic psychedelic trip, a te...
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Thread: Latest from Dr Sam Parnia
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Smaw Wrote: (2021-01-11, 05:57 AM)
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Like I saw a conversation from Anil Seth the other day talking about the Surviving Death Documentary and while he's a total prick for a good chunk of it you can ...
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Thread: Mega-thread for help with rebuttals against skeptical talking points
Post: RE: Mega-thread for help with rebuttals against sk...
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tim Wrote: (2021-02-02, 05:38 PM)
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He never sent the information to Alex Tsakiris. Some on line commenters are suspicious of where he actually got his MD from. He says Yale and makes a big deal ou...
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Thread: Mega-thread for help with rebuttals against skeptical talking points
Post: RE: Mega-thread for help with rebuttals against sk...
| Ok, well enough of Quora then. I will ask about something bothering me that Novella posted in the comments on that 'hearing the dead' article.
https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/the-brain...
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Thread: Autoscopies as a Time Marker for the Occurrence of Near-Death Experiences
Post: Autoscopies as a Time Marker for the Occurrence of...
| From Michael Nahm in the Journal of Near-Death Studies:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342916855_The_Significance_of_Autoscopies_as_a_Time_Marker_for_the_Occurrence_of_Near-Death_Experience...
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Thread: Scientists shed light on how and why some people report "hearing the dead"
Post: RE: Scientists shed light on how and why some peop...
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Smaw Wrote: (2021-01-18, 10:02 PM)
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Certainly interesting. The article isn't as hostile as what it appeared to be. What I wonder here is, if they have higher levels of absorbtion, when did this com...
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Thread: Bigelow's Competition for Best Evidence of Life after Death
Post: Bigelow's Competition for Best Evidence of Life af...
| Thought I may as well post this here since this kind of encompasses most of the topics discussed on here. This caused quite the controversy/stir in the comments in the New York Times, particularly giv...
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Thread: Leslie Kean's new Netflix documentary
Post: RE: Leslie Kean's new Netflix documentary
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2021-01-23, 11:06 AM)
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I have not yet seen the series or specifically the mediumship episode, but I think that if your impressions are correct Keane made a fundamental error in c...
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Thread: Latest from Dr Sam Parnia
Post: RE: Latest from Dr Sam Parnia
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tim Wrote: (2021-01-21, 02:28 PM)
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(alerted to this via the Aware blog) Is it a recent 'crumb' (from Parnia) or something older?
“What we’ve learned is that, yes, when we come close to death, we ...
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Thread: Mega-Thread: Contrary and Confusing Claims about Parnia, Greyson and more?
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Kamarling Wrote: (2021-01-18, 10:02 AM)
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What concerns me more, however, are the aggressive activists - people such as the Wikipedia guerrilla skeptics.
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I'd thrown in the aforementioned militant...
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Thread: Patricia Churchland demeans Dualism and David Chalmers
Post: RE: Patricia Churchland demeans Dualism and David ...
| I did email Chalmers for his thoughts on this. He didn't seem too bothered, sharing a photo of them as 'old friends'. I do find Churchland's remarks however to be nevertheless very ignorant and genera...
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Thread: Mega-Thread: Contrary and Confusing Claims about Parnia, Greyson and more?
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2021-01-15, 11:24 PM)
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Yeah I'm aware of your Reddit account, Laird verified you were the same person when I suggested you be limited to Skeptical Discussion or just banned....
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Thread: Sharon Hewitt Rawlette on NDEs
Post: RE: Sharon Hewitt Rawlette on NDEs
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Obiwan Wrote: (2021-01-14, 07:08 AM)
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It seems the same explanation as usually proffered - error, coincidence or fraud. It’s just dressed up to sound less like it.
As an aside, I don’t see that t...
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Thread: Leslie Kean's new Netflix documentary
Post: RE: Leslie Kean's new Netflix documentary
| Thanks for that clarification tim. They probably should have clarified that better in the doc. I say this because some reveiwer on IMDB falsely claimed they say that 'a flat ECG means brain death' but...
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Thread: James Randi crosses over
Post: RE: James Randi crosses over
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Typoz Wrote: (2021-01-11, 10:17 AM)
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Wait, I'm confused. Is the water or the salt representing consciousness?
Maybe NDEs are a form of distillation :)
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I always imagined consciousness represent...
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Thread: Leslie Kean's new Netflix documentary
Post: RE: Leslie Kean's new Netflix documentary
| I'm honestly starting to think that some militant atheists are deliberately cherry-picking it and giving ridiculously low reviews just for the fun of it:
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Thread: Control group outperforms mediums in psychic test
Post: Control group outperforms mediums in psychic test
| I was somewhat surprised to see the SPR retweet this:
https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/psychic-energy?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1
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The research team behind this study, led by brain ...
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