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    This prominent scientist says life is meaningless… and he’s serious |314|

    Not sure if he fits that particular bill, but mentioned that this guy might make an interesting guest recently in the Dr. Bernard Kastrup show thread (just having finished listening to it yesterday). Just repeating info from that post, but: his name is James P. Carse and he is an author and...
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    Science and philosophy gave him something he never thought he’d find… respect for religion |312|

    A little late to the party here, but would like to recommend a few resources that I thought pertained to the excellent discussion from this show. A few of them coming from an author/former professor of history and literature of religion named James P. Carse. He is the author of the interesting...
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    Mod+ 281. DR. EVAN THOMPSON FINDS NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE EVIDENCE UNCONVINCING

    Well said! And in that spirit: "The Way has never been divided up, speech has never been constant. It's all because of 'this' [i.e. labels/mental constructs/intellectual abstraction] that there are demarcations." - Chuang Tzu
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    Mod+ 281. DR. EVAN THOMPSON FINDS NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE EVIDENCE UNCONVINCING

    Thanks, I appreciate the back-and-forth. Being pressed not only forces us to clarify our own thoughts/position, but can help us uncover new insights and strengthen/recalibrate it for the better. We may have different approaches (though I do also take NDEs, OBEs, reincarnation, psi phenomena...
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    Mod+ 281. DR. EVAN THOMPSON FINDS NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE EVIDENCE UNCONVINCING

    Good points all-around, especially on the skeptics ever-moving goalposts. And you are also well to point out the absurdity of the Dennet-like denial of consciousness (after all, one must use consciousness itself to deny itself), even if it is the only position that follows the logic/is...
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    Mod+ 281. DR. EVAN THOMPSON FINDS NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE EVIDENCE UNCONVINCING

    I'm not arguing that NDEs aren't valid (I have read plenty, and accept their legitimacy and am intrigued by what they imply), or that there isn't an experience and/or consciousness "outside" of embodiment from the human organism/what we consider "material" reality, just that - even if one were...
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    Mod+ 281. DR. EVAN THOMPSON FINDS NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE EVIDENCE UNCONVINCING

    The QED was somewhat in jest, but the point absolutely remains. By "you" I don't mean some inflated ego or personality that is the universe, or that "you" are omniscient and/or consciously omnipotent in some sort of way. I also don't claim for consciousness to be an effect of the material...
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    Mod+ 281. DR. EVAN THOMPSON FINDS NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE EVIDENCE UNCONVINCING

    The point simply remains, the universe is conscious through us (or, perhaps more accurately, as us). It is the entire universe, it can't be anything less. Put another way, "you" are the entire universe, you can't be anything less. QED Doesn't matter what materialists believe about certain...
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    Mod+ 281. DR. EVAN THOMPSON FINDS NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE EVIDENCE UNCONVINCING

    Reposting my comment from the interview's mainpage (and briefly expanding on it in some areas): "Consciousness is the unfolding, the 'e-volution,' of what has always been hidden in the heart of the primordial universe of stars. For a universe in which consciousness is no more than a statistical...
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