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- Mon May 02, 2022 6:28 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Waves and Dimensions
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Re: Waves and Dimensions
But what is information? My understanding of Shannon is that basically everything is information. I fail to see what is special about the information in IIT
- Mon May 02, 2022 3:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Waves and Dimensions
- Replies: 7
- Views: 793
Re: Waves and Dimensions
So this becomes experience (self reflective) because it folds on itself?
- Mon May 02, 2022 7:06 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Waves and Dimensions
- Replies: 7
- Views: 793
Re: Waves and Dimensions
Is this argument with this stuff that EM itself is conscious?
- Sat Apr 30, 2022 5:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Susan Blackmore: Scientific Evidence and the Near-Death Experience
- Replies: 69
- Views: 7018
Re: Susan Blackmore: Scientific Evidence and the Near-Death Experience
As one who has experienced these veridical, so-called OBEs, the initial inquiry that came to mind when it first happened—and while I was still, by default, assuming physicalism to be viable—was how can the conventional model explain it. After delving into any such explanations on offer, I came to r...
- Fri Apr 29, 2022 8:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Susan Blackmore: Scientific Evidence and the Near-Death Experience
- Replies: 69
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Re: Susan Blackmore: Scientific Evidence and the Near-Death Experience
If it is a necessary feature of idealism, perhaps. Granted, I'm not an idealist so I wouldn't expect it to be necessary
As in, I don't think it has to be a lawlike phenomenon necessarily. I would be wondering how such events would accord with a theistic worldview, of course
As in, I don't think it has to be a lawlike phenomenon necessarily. I would be wondering how such events would accord with a theistic worldview, of course
- Fri Apr 29, 2022 3:34 pm
- Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
- Topic: Psychic phenomena
- Replies: 11
- Views: 22188
Re: Psychic phenomena
Apparently results from studies have been statistically significant (maybe this is disputed?). I've always heard that the effects were typically quite minor and infrequent, however.
- Fri Apr 29, 2022 3:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Susan Blackmore: Scientific Evidence and the Near-Death Experience
- Replies: 69
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Re: Susan Blackmore: Scientific Evidence and the Near-Death Experience
The argument perhaps would be what constitutes 'evidence'
- Thu Apr 28, 2022 2:46 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: TAG (Transcendental Argument for God)
- Replies: 3
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TAG (Transcendental Argument for God)
Any thoughts on the TAG? The simple form of the argument is that God is the necessary precondition for certain transcendental categories (logic is a typical example). Part of the argument is that universals cannot be reduced to particulars (e.g. matter), then that the ontological basis of such thing...
- Thu Apr 28, 2022 1:40 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Susan Blackmore: Scientific Evidence and the Near-Death Experience
- Replies: 69
- Views: 7018
Re: Susan Blackmore: Scientific Evidence and the Near-Death Experience
I'd have to look in to it more (really going on J.P. Moreland and Gary Habermas discussions, but haven't read the book) This sounds like a form of the "divine hiddenness" kind, in any case. One could counter "why doesn't it happen more?" with "why does it happen at all?"...
- Thu Apr 28, 2022 11:01 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Susan Blackmore: Scientific Evidence and the Near-Death Experience
- Replies: 69
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Re: Susan Blackmore: Scientific Evidence and the Near-Death Experience
The OBEs are more interesting than typical NDEs. If someone can be shown to have witnessed something they otherwise couldn't, then this would be an interesting phenomenon (I do think some of the stories are true) That said, I always remain sceptical of how much science can reveal about metaphysical ...