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Thread: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fallacy and is it unfalsifiable?
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Merle Wrote: (2023-06-27, 10:18 PM)
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I disagree. If you test your hypothesis many times, and your hypothesis yields results no better than chance guessing, why is that not evidence against your hyp...
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Thread: Intelligent Design (ECP forum rules apply)*
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2023-06-26, 06:55 PM)
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I find it a little discouraging that there is so little interest here nowadays in Intelligent Design. I have followed this field and have observed that wit...
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Thread: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fallacy and is it unfalsifiable?
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Merle Wrote: (2023-06-25, 01:40 PM)
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This is a story of somebody who had been revived, followed by four days in a coma, and then spent 2 days awake before talking about the experience. During that ...
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Thread: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fallacy and is it unfalsifiable?
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2023-06-24, 10:56 PM)
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At least with memory I think paradoxical & terminal lucidity in the paper Sam posted is enough to question the idea mind is dependent on brain.
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Thread: Conscious computers are a delusion
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Brian Wrote: (2023-06-23, 04:05 PM)
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Playing devil's advocate (odd for a christian, I know), presuming machines could become sentient, how would anybody know?
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The only thing that could confirm a...
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Thread: Opinion’s on Keith Augustine?
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Brian Wrote: (2023-06-19, 02:47 PM)
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One thing is for sure, those atheists who are commenting are doing so with a passion and a zeal worthy of any religion!
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It's like that thread Merle linked ...
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Thread: UFO crash retrieval appears to be absolutely real
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sbu Wrote: (2023-06-16, 09:12 PM)
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A ufo crash would be more likely to happen outside the US than within simply by comparing area of land. It’s a cultural phenomena that originated with Roswell and...
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Thread: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fallacy and is it unfalsifiable?
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2023-06-07, 06:19 PM)
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I'm still confused about the argument. Is it:
1. There are no souls. All mental faculties/awareness/memories can be explained by reference to the b...
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Thread: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fallacy and is it unfalsifiable?
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David001 Wrote: (2023-05-30, 09:29 PM)
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Some time back I commented that if AI ever gets good enough to create completely driverless cars that work in all the conditions we drive in, then I'd have t...
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Thread: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fallacy and is it unfalsifiable?
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Laird Wrote: (2023-05-24, 02:52 PM)
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Just a quick heads-up: @"Merle"#567 seems likely to be the author of the articles shared by @"quirkybrainmeat"#555 in post #13 (https://psiencequest.net/forums/...
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Thread: Human memory may be unreliable after just a few seconds, scientists find
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sbu Wrote: (2023-04-06, 01:50 PM)
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psychology and parapsychology you mean?
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Pretty much. I never thought psi was that compelling in spite of the dishonesty from some detractors like Blackmore and...
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Thread: Human memory may be unreliable after just a few seconds, scientists find
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sbu Wrote: (2023-04-06, 08:18 AM)
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Everything can be dismissed with this argument! It’s the Slothful Induction Fallacy!
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I would be agreeing with you, if the suspicious about psychology studies d...
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Thread: A scary chat with ChatGPT about latest NDE account in NDE thread
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2023-03-31, 07:03 AM)
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Graziano? The puppet guy?
- Michael Graziano (2013), Consciousness and the Social Brain, p. 208
To his credit he really showed how dumb mater...
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Thread: A scary chat with ChatGPT about latest NDE account in NDE thread
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Typoz Wrote: (2023-03-25, 02:10 PM)
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But epiphenomenalism simply says nothing. It offers no answer.
https://psiencequest.net/forums/thread-what-are-you-watching?pid=41466#pid41466
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I'm not a epi...
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Thread: A scary chat with ChatGPT about latest NDE account in NDE thread
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tim Wrote: (2023-03-24, 08:54 AM)
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If I didn't I wouldn't have mentioned it, Sbu otherwise someone could suspect me of BS, and I wouldn't want that. I hate BS. Here it is ...go to 1.32.50
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Thread: A scary chat with ChatGPT about latest NDE account in NDE thread
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sbu Wrote: (2023-03-21, 08:00 AM)
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I think we are on an exponential curve here. Give it 10 more years.
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So you went from doubting emergentism to being almost certain of it only because of ChatGPT...
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Thread: A scary chat with ChatGPT about latest NDE account in NDE thread
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sbu Wrote: (2023-03-20, 09:08 PM)
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I have noticed that in general you can't google the exact wording of a given chatGPT response. I know the Bing variant works slightly differently from the one ava...
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Thread: Reading “Proof of Spiritual Phenomena”
Post: RE: Reading “Proof of Spiritual Phenomena”
| https://ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13054-023-04348-2
Another recent study.
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Thread: Reading “Proof of Spiritual Phenomena”
Post: RE: Reading “Proof of Spiritual Phenomena”
| https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/12/5/1968
This study is pretty recent. They had a negative OBE which according to them vindicates the view that consciousness is a product of the brain, but at the same...
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Thread: Reading “Proof of Spiritual Phenomena”
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2023-03-01, 04:45 PM)
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Globally good chunk of the public believes in something supernatural or paranormal. I'd say it's the vast majority, even if not everyone thinks it is ...
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