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    Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
Post: RE: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
stephenw Wrote: (2024-04-25, 08:54 PM) -- I would describe mind as an abstraction referring to information processing.  The common view is that it is biological information processing.  Single cell o...
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    Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
Post: RE: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
stephenw Wrote: (2024-04-24, 07:29 PM) -- Good question.  But rather than a projection of human-like entities, basic purposeful information processing could start with raw material at the beginning. ...
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    Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
Post: RE: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
David001 Wrote: (2024-04-25, 10:52 AM) -- OK if you accept that chance is not a viable explanation for the origin of life Then it is not unreasonable to accept the obvious conclusion that a mind was ...
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    Thread: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
Post: RE: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
sbu Wrote: (2024-04-21, 05:30 PM) -- For me, the improbability of RM+NS producing complex systems like human biology doesn't necessarily imply direct evidence for discarnate entities. A plausible nat...
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    Thread: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
Post: RE: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
David001 Wrote: (2024-04-18, 04:34 PM) -- Well strangely you don't really need to understand biochemistry or biology to explore this subject. Genes are basically digital - C, G, A, T. The chemistry o...
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    Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
Post: RE: A new Guardian article on near-death experienc...
David001 Wrote: (2024-04-17, 04:32 PM) -- Do you really need to sneer at people who find NDE's relevant? I mean nobody on this forum invented them, and because of modern resuscitation methods there a...
Posted by nbtruthman in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-04-17, 08:40 PM
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    Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
Post: RE: A new Guardian article on near-death experienc...
David001 Wrote: (2024-04-15, 11:36 AM) -- This matters because people are more likely to accept parapsychology if they realise just how dodgy 'real' science is regarding things that obviously matter ...
Posted by sbu in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-04-15, 02:07 PM
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    Thread: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
Post: RE: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
sbu Wrote: (2024-04-08, 09:38 PM) -- Strong emergence is not solely about consciousness. Standing in stark contrast to reductionism—an unproven perspective borne from the triumphs of physics in the l...
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    Thread: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
Post: RE: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
I found another reference explaining that it’s the approximations to Schrodingers equation the pre-supposes the molecular structure, that’s why the Born-Oppenheimer approximation is relevant in this c...
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    Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
Post: RE: A new Guardian article on near-death experienc...
sbu Wrote: (2024-04-04, 03:30 PM) -- And by this reasoning both the Loch Ness monster and Bigfoot are real too. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfoot I invite you to “individually and credi...
Posted by Sciborg_S_Patel in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-04-04, 05:51 PM
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    Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
Post: RE: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and sp...
David001 Wrote: (2024-04-03, 05:24 PM) -- Well except that if this world is here to teach anything, it is going to have nasty aspects. One aspect seems to be that it has to be such that people can pl...
Posted by Sciborg_S_Patel in Spirituality , 2024-04-03, 07:49 PM
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    Thread: Why Corroborated NDEs Can’t Just Be Explained Away
Post: RE: Why Corroborated NDEs Can’t Just Be Explained ...
sbu Wrote: (2024-04-02, 06:46 PM) -- Ignorance of, for example, source criticism is a task for the Ministry of Education and not for the courts. -- Please expand on this implied criticism of The Se...
Posted by nbtruthman in Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) , 2024-04-02, 10:55 PM
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    Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
Post: RE: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and sp...
nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-03-29, 07:32 PM) -- I also just want to know the truth about the nature of the spiritual realm and its relationship with the physical, especially as regards to the effects on ...
Posted by Sciborg_S_Patel in Spirituality , 2024-03-30, 04:46 PM
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    Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
Post: RE: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and sp...
David001 Wrote: (2024-03-29, 05:08 PM) -- First let me repeat again, I do not think it makes sense to oppose a particular scientific theory based on the amount of suffering it implies. Would it make ...
Posted by nbtruthman in Spirituality , 2024-03-29, 07:32 PM
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    Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
Post: RE: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and sp...
Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-03-22, 04:15 AM) -- I think another key piece of the question is time and space related - is this idea of the soul choosing a life for itself and all the suffering it mig...
Posted by nbtruthman in Spirituality , 2024-03-23, 03:41 PM
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    Thread: Death Anxiety (but not what u think)
Post: RE: Death Anxiety (but not what u think)
David001 Wrote: (2024-03-21, 09:49 PM) -- I think you should not accept it if you are plagued with this dread, I am sure there must be psychiatric or hypnotic help available. I wonder just how old a...
Posted by nbtruthman in Spirituality , 2024-03-21, 10:28 PM
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    Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
Post: RE: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and sp...
David001 Wrote: (2024-03-20, 04:39 PM) -- Well they certainly aren't rationalisations, more like attempts to understand the message that we seem to be receiving. Items 1 and 2 are an attempt to co...
Posted by Sciborg_S_Patel in Spirituality , 2024-03-20, 04:50 PM
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    Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
Post: RE: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and sp...
David001 Wrote: (2024-03-12, 11:05 PM) -- There is also the reverse of that. For long periods of time people were led to believe that lovers having sex outside marriage were committing a mortal sin. ...
Posted by Valmar in Spirituality , 2024-03-15, 05:32 AM
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    Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
Post: RE: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and sp...
David001 Wrote: (2024-03-12, 11:05 PM) -- There is also the reverse of that. For long periods of time people were led to believe that lovers having sex outside marriage were committing a mortal sin. ...
Posted by Sciborg_S_Patel in Spirituality , 2024-03-14, 06:13 PM
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    Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
Post: RE: Night Shift: The Brain’s Extraordinary Work Wh...
David001 Wrote: (2024-03-11, 11:35 AM) -- Nbtruthman, Wouldn't it be better to start a new thread to talk about this? Mixing it with this discussion doesn't make much sense. If I get such a dia...
Posted by nbtruthman in Spirituality , 2024-03-11, 05:31 PM
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