Richard Still
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You are a biological machine, the inheritor of the original spark of life that drives and motivates your fellow humans (even me) and all other flora and fauna on the face of the earth.But people like you don't really matter. You think you are a biological robot. Most people know they are much more than that. BTW, have you read Irreducible Mind yet?
You are not a ghost driving a meat robot.
I'm not an expert in neuroscience. I freely admit this. So I looked at what experts had to say about the book, "Irreducible Mind". I read the whole commentary, but this is their summary:
The authors’ sincerity and the extent of their labors are beyond question, and yet this volume appears to us to be little more than another broadside in the psi wars.
After making the enormous effort required to read this large book, our impression in the end is one of fatigue and a certain sadness that nothing more substantive has been presented here.
Mitchell G. Ash (Vienna)
Horst Gundlach (Würzburg)
Thomas Sturm (Berlin/Barcelona)
Michael Shermer might not be a nice person. But Lommel's work does not show life after death because the patients did not die. Lommel's work did not show anything that can not be explained by a normal human brain getting less oxygen than normal.It's better than a historian who fails to make informed (or even factual) commentary on the work of an MD.
The organization is aimed at Education. Mostly to try to inform the general public about the non-efficacy of things like homeopathy and other pseudo-scientific claims made to part them from their money.JREF doesn't even have that much going for them.
I would at least hope that you are confident enough in your own evidence that you would have no fear about being lumped in with faith healers and psychic surgeons.
I will admit that you saying this hurt my feelings. It is so over-the-top wrong that I had to walk away from my computer last night.It took 50 years to discover the Higgs Boson.
The Standard Model is currently the best description there is of the subatomic world. Higgs showed that the Standard Model predicted a particle that would be the "seat" of gravity. If the Standard Model is correct, that particle had to exist.
There was a theory in place to explain why something should be there. They looked for it through experimentation, they found it. If they had not found it, the Standard Model would need to be re-structured or changed to account for this.
WHEREAS, for claims of parapyschological phenomenon, there is no equivalent of the Standard Model, no theory for how these things could exist, just anecdotes and suppositions.
It's all just wishful thinking.
It's not particle physics, it's alchemy.