10Oct 2025 by Post

One Reason Near-Death Experiences Are Hard to Study

Amanda Gefter, analytic idealists, Bernardo Kastrup, consciousness, database, dissociation, eliminative materialism, Faith & Science, idealism, Joshua Farris, Michael Egnor, near-death experiences, Neuroscience & Mind, physicalism, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, supernatural
When the mind is dissociated from the body briefly, it may acquire actual knowledge — as in NDEs where the knowledge acquired is later confirmed. Source
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26Oct 2024 by Post

Soul Survives Death? ER Doc Faces Skepticism

Baram Elahi, brain function, cardiac arrest, clinical death, Closer to Truth, consciousness, death, doctors, Faith & Science, John Eccles, Lord Kelvin, Lucid Dying, near-death experiences, Neuroscience & Mind, Nobel Prize, physics, post-death consciousness, Psyche, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Sam Parnia, skepticism, soul
In discussion with Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Dr. Sam Parnia stuck to his clearly defined evidence, avoiding religious digressions. Source
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18Feb 2024 by Post

Vilenkin: A Physicist in Flight from Intelligent Design

Adam Mann, Alexander Vilenkin, Big Bang, Closer to Truth, cosmological constant, cosmologists, cosmology, dark energy, Dark Energy constant, Energy, evolutionary science, fine-tuning, gravity, Intelligent Design, matter, physicists, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, Rob Sheldon, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Scientific American, Subhir Sarkhar, universe
If you are not an ideological materialist, it would make more sense just to assume that our universe is designed because of the clear evidence for fine-tuning. Source
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15Dec 2023 by Post

More on Roger Penrose and Fine-Tuning

Anthropic Principle, chicken feed, fine-tuning, Fire-Maker, gravitational constant, Guillermo Gonzalez, initial entropy, Intelligent Design, intelligent observers, Jay Richards, multiverse, multiverse theory, Nobel Prize, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Roger Penrose, The Edge of Evolution, The Privileged Planet, william lane craig, YouTube videos
Penrose offers as an alternative to design only that maybe some very different kind of life might be possible without the fine-tunings we see in our universe. Source
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04Jan 2023 by Post

Brain Scientist: Consciousness Didn’t Evolve; It Creates Evolution

Big Bang, cognitive science, computer, computers, conscious realism, consciousness, Darwinian evolution, David Chalmers, desktop, Donald Hoffman, electronics, Evolution, evolutionary biologists, Evolutionary Game Theory, mind-body problem, natural selection, Neuroscience & Mind, physicalists, pixels, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, science, University of California, Visual Intelligence, voltage
Donald Hoffman says that even the Big Bang must be understood in a universe where consciousness is fundamental. Source
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08Sep 2022 by Post

Can Red Have “Redness” if No Self Perceives It?

apes, chimpanzees, Closer to Truth, genomes, human exceptionalism, illusion, inner feeling, Julian Baggini, lichens, neurons, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, origin of life, philosophy, qualia, red, redness, religion, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, rocks, science, scientific explanation, self
Is not the fact that we are having these discussions the best available evidence that we are not “just overgrown apes or undergrown apes”? Source
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