Psience News - 12-18 January 2020

This is a listing, in progress, of news items about parapsychology, psi, the paranormal and related subjects, posted to the PsienceQuest Forums

Extended Consciousness Phenomena

Papers

• A preprint entitled "Anomalous information reception by mediums: A meta-analysis of the scientific evidence" has appeared at ResearchGate (Discuss)

Psi Encyclopedia

New entries in the Society for Psychical Research's Psi Encyclopedia

• Patrizio Tressoldi (Discuss)
• Peter Bancel (Discuss)
• Markus Maier (Discuss)
• Renaud Evrard (Discuss)
• Annalisa Ventola (Discuss)

Interviews

• A transcript of a previously unaired interview with Dean Radin from 1997 has appeared at Mystery Wire (Discuss)

Blogs

• Hayley Stevens investigates an alleged ghost photograph taken at Lauriston Castle, Edinburgh (Discuss)

Videos

• Videos of the Founders Lecture and presentations from the fourth session of the Society for Scientific Exploration's 2019 Convention have been uploaded to the Society's YouTube channel (Discuss)

Upcoming Events

• The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, Edinburgh, will hold a one-day meeting on 22 February entitled "Psi Saturday" (Discuss)

Philosophy of Mind; Consciousness Science

Debates and Dialogues

• On Nature of Science & Speculative Metaphysics, the latest (sixth) letter, by Massimo Pigliucci, in the dialogue between himself and Philip Goff - On The Problem of Consciousness, Panpsychism & more - has been uploaded to Letter (Discuss)

Interviews

• Does Consciousness Pervade the Universe?, an interview of Philip Goff by Gareth Cook about panpsychism, has been published in Scientific American (Discuss)

Videos

• Deriving Idealism from basic facts of reality, a fan-made video based on Bernardo Kastrup's paper An Ontological Solution to the Mind-Body Problem, has been uploaded to YouTube (Discuss)

Alternative Views on Science

Videos

• A video of a panel discussion entitled "The Laws of the Universe: Are the laws of nature just human constructs?" from 2018 is available on the website of The Institute of Art and Ideas (Discuss)