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Thread: Indridi Indridason's contact with Emil Jensen
Post: RE: Indridi Indridason's contact with Emil Jensen
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If you have sources and information for your claims about Indridi as a medium and the Emil Jensen case then I strongly advise you to contact the editors of the Psi Encyclopedia and pre...
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Thread: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fallacy and is it unfalsifiable?
Post: RE: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fal...
Merle Wrote: (2023-06-30, 08:06 PM)
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Before my grandmother had a stroke, she would interact with people and remember it. After her stroke, she would interact with people, and not remember it happen...
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Thread: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fallacy and is it unfalsifiable?
Post: RE: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fal...
Merle Wrote: (2023-06-30, 10:33 AM)
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So I find this study interesting, but the small observed affect does nothing to overthrow all of neuroscience, which finds that the mind is dependent on the bra...
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Thread: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fallacy and is it unfalsifiable?
Post: RE: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fal...
Merle Wrote: (2023-06-28, 12:06 PM)
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And do you also need people to stop making claims about the Loch Ness Monster before you acknowledge the evidence indicates it is not real?
Do you also need ...
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Thread: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fallacy and is it unfalsifiable?
Post: RE: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fal...
Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2023-06-27, 11:12 PM)
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As noted above by Sam Harris in End of Faith, reincarnation research hasn't been completely negative.
I would agree, however, that there has been n...
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Thread: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fallacy and is it unfalsifiable?
Post: RE: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fal...
Merle Wrote: (2023-06-26, 10:06 AM)
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Interesting link.
My information comes from How Not to Do Survival Research: Reflections on the Bigelow Institute Essay Competition (https://philpapers.org/r...
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Thread: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fallacy and is it unfalsifiable?
Post: RE: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fal...
Merle Wrote: (2023-06-25, 07:29 PM)
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Again, multiple controlled studies confirm the conclusion that there is no significant finding for survival above that which is expected by chance.
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Thread: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fallacy and is it unfalsifiable?
Post: RE: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fal...
Merle Wrote: (2023-06-25, 01:40 PM)
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Science looks to controlled studies, not occasional anecdotes, to establish scientific truths. Claims of survival have been studied many times in controlled stu...
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Thread: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fallacy and is it unfalsifiable?
Post: RE: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fal...
Merle Wrote: (2023-06-23, 11:18 AM)
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Again, this is my point:
The activities of the mind require the brain. If the brain is destroyed, then, as far as we know, anything that would be left that had ...
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Thread: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fallacy and is it unfalsifiable?
Post: RE: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fal...
Merle Wrote: (2023-06-20, 10:49 AM)
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Uh, can you please quote back the place where I said that unconscious matter magically gives rise to conscious experiences?
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Thread: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fallacy and is it unfalsifiable?
Post: RE: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fal...
Merle Wrote: (2023-06-19, 11:15 AM)
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I think that the awareness is generated by the brain as a whole.
What do you think generates your awareness? Magic? If not magic, how does the thing that you t...
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Thread: Opinion’s on Keith Augustine?
Post: RE: Opinion’s on Keith Augustine?
Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2023-06-19, 05:48 PM)
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While I think it would be *better* if Stevenson had communicated this information, I'm not sure this would tip the scales much either way. People woul...
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Thread: Opinion’s on Keith Augustine?
Post: RE: Opinion’s on Keith Augustine?
Keith Augustine is controversial, to put it mildly.
I have mixed feelings with regard to his recent statement claiming that survivalists make arguments similar to those made by creationist crackpot...
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Thread: Old Souls by Tom Shroder
Post: RE: Old Souls by Tom Shroder
Ninshub Wrote: (2023-06-17, 01:54 AM)
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Maybe this will be the beginning of the Psience Quest book club .
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You might be right about that Ninshub. ;) A few days before you made this comment I wa...
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Thread: NDE Multimedia Resource Thread
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This seems to be yet another veridical NDE/OBE which incidentally (with regards to the last post made by tim) also comes from Spain and is related by Dr. Miguel Angel Pertierra Quesada, an otolaryngol...
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Thread: Old Souls by Tom Shroder
Post: RE: Old Souls by Tom Shroder
Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2023-06-14, 05:55 PM)
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I do plan to try and provide links to as many cases as possible, ideally Psi Encyclopedia has them!
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I have not read Shroder's book, but I do know ...
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Thread: New video collaboration that I made
Post: RE: New video collaboration that I made
Laird Wrote: (2023-06-11, 03:50 PM)
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I don't have a problem with your having fought snark with snark, and overall I thought it was a good response video. I like that you explicitly identified, numb...
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Thread: New video collaboration that I made
Post: RE: New video collaboration that I made
Brian Wrote: (2023-06-11, 11:12 AM)
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Your own description put me right off! "Hatchet job piece" "I took some pot shots at her" Clearly you are not interested in facts, only getting one up on som...
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Thread: New video collaboration that I made
Post: New video collaboration that I made
Hello Psiencequest.
Last year, Rebecca Watson, a member of the sceptic community and the protegé of Steven Novella made a video attempting to debunk near-death experiences with old recycled argumen...
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Thread: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fallacy and is it unfalsifiable?
Post: RE: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fal...
Merle Wrote: (2023-05-22, 10:29 PM)
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A sudden rush of lucidity after death--if it is a verified thing--could be similar to a rush of strength when the adrenaline flows.
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Kindly explain how woul...
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