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Probably the easiest way to end with an echo chamber... We are a few weeks removed from a debate on how the forum moderation had become too reactionary (especially against skeptics) and instead of trying to solve that, we now find ourselves in the ultimate extrapolation of the issue.

Without critical discussions, you may as well close shop. Most of the interesting stuff is now there, since the podcast went downhill and became a place to discuss random conspiracies and Christianity.

Found this piece while browsing something else and was amused to find that it was an interview with Jonathan Schooler tying the work of Bem to the "PreCogs" of this series: http://scienceandfilm.org/articles/2919/minority-report-and-precognition I haven't seen Minority Report discussed with...

...then we are all going to hell.

Technically, you "untangle" the particles when you measure the properties of one of them, entanglement itself being a state of uncertainty. Of course this is not as straightforward as it seems, and the fact that entanglement can do odd things like reaching into the past, adds another layer to...

Yeah, that's another good point... We don't seem to get any follow-up on past podcasts, not from critics nor the original guests themselves. That pretty much forces the need to give forum to "what-if hypotheses", since there is a constant need for new material. Maybe Alex took note that in...

Just when we thought that fishing forums were safe... The podcast? Yeah, it's pretty bad. The speed of its decline has been pronounced, maybe two years from premier guests to "all atheists are secret satanists". The forum remains the crown's jewel, but we are losing people.

The Y chromosome is not "disappearing", it technically "shaves off" redundant genes as an evolutionary process but retains the relevant genes despite that. I would quote Nature, but... You know, book burning and all that.

Interesting, but even more interesting is that you somehow survive over there. Anyway, did the canned interview precede Campbell's latest experiment proposals? If that's the case, then I do believe that is worthy of an interview... That is, if Alex can focus on these tests over the metaphysical...

That as well. Tediousness leads to political crap, which in turn leads to Many have tried to propose interesting people to interview, I personally proposed doing some follow-up on people that he already interviewed (where there is at least a line of communication). There is a thread...

The thing is that I don't see 'exploration', I see anger and disappointment and ways to channel those emotions to the listeners. I don't see him bringing people from other religions or practices like shamanism anymore, I see bashing, sometimes being done by people that are authors to some...

What...? No, I did not mean those two when I said that the forum had become too "safe" from skeptics.

He deserves it, you know. I have told him to let the stuff cool for a while, but he refuses to go back into the more scientific side of consciousness studies. Besides that, his obsession with Christianity is starting to look like withdrawal trauma stemming from unresolved issues that go back to...

I will blame that on autocorrect...

It's an alien invasion film. The dogs at the farm (the main setting) are the first to act up and nobody knows why, leading to this: And this:

It's the only kind of perception that I think is possible with limited information (be it auditory, visual or the favorite of one of our former colleagues, trough bone conductivity). The idea that the brain by itself can extrapolate and improve on that, giving us a HD display where we can...

No. However, I appear capable of associating and actually converting noise into something absolutely random. For example, the noise of a lawnmower into a T-Rex or a car, heavy rain into waterfalls and so on. I suspect that is a rather common thing.

Oooo... I don't think that arguing that would be well received by the 'gender fluid' crowd.

If the consistency of underlying patterns is dependent on a pool of observers agreeing over basic points, I can see them being biased and manipulated. Not sure that we would want that on a larger scale, though.

They do... Otherwise there would not be so much hassle about pronouns.