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Stevenson did the only thing that could be done - cross checked accounts against documents, witnesses, locations, accident records, death certificates...

I wonder how you would research that.

I don’t think that will do. There is quite strong evidence of children who recall previous lives. It is true that belief in reincarnation is a cultura...

Ought not to be forgotten that ‘the atom’ is an abstraction. It’s not particles - it’s a particle zoo, which still confounds science.

Decisions are not particulate either. See my post above - reason has power, yes? But you can’t measure or detect it, other than by the actions of a ra...

I don't know. I do know that since the Western encounter with Tibetan Buddhists, that some Western-born children have been designated as incarnations ...

When it's relevant to the issue, but not admissible due to the legal rules. What I'm saying is that evolutionary biology and naturalism generally has ...

I’ve reincarnated the following from an old post of mine on this topic. There was an opinion piece published in Scientific American, by physicist (and...

I think you’d have a fair amount of difficulty supporting that with reference to original sources. I personally believe the notion of an ‘immaterial s...

From here.

Indeed. Splendid response, thank you.

https://www.amazon.com.au/Rebirth-Early-Buddhism-Current-Research/dp/1614294461

I don’t particularly agree with Goff but I’m nearer to his view than the other two. Actually in years passed he registered here to query a post I’d wr...

why ‘random’? Where’d you get that?

Hey didn’t mean to put you on the defensive, just a review I had noticed. But from it, I learned that Carroll does say in the beginning of that book, ...

I think a contemporary answer would respond in terms of process philosophy - that there is no entity that transmigrates, rather a cause-and-effect pat...

Actually the title of this thread says something. Evolutionary biology, origin of life studies, and the rest, deliberately exclude any questions about...

Of course. Discussed it at length with Apokrisis, read up on it. What I’m saying is that I don’t buy it, as an explanation for the emergence of organi...

One of Stevenson’s cases: He documented nearly 3,000 such cases over the course of decades (and rejected many more suspecting ulterior motives or lyin...

hey you’re welcome. I found it very interesting also.

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Long time back, I mentioned his earlier book, Farewell to Reality, which got a pretty good review from yourself: Same narrator! Agree. And there can't...

A review. As I don't hold to physicalism, I am sceptical of the effort to explain living things in terms of physical laws. I'm sceptical of the idea t...

not trying to burden you with work. :yikes: Besides, it’s bookmarked to the specific topic I’m referring to and that section about <10 minutes.

Well, you can say that gravity seems to require action at a distance, about which Newton famously 'proposed no hypothesis'. (Relevant articles on that...

I don't suppose you have any reflections on the actual topic in the video? It is quite an inteliigible presentation, by a well-known science writer. T...

I’d be obliged if the comments in this thread were merged into the Bad Physics thread. I shoulda known better. :yikes: (Although I still say the prese...

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'Action at a distance', or entanglement, was implied by Schrodinger's equation. That's why Einstein objected to it, but at the time it was purely conj...

It's neither: Needless to say it is a deep question; the remainder is given in this text. This is a famous example of the 'middle-way' reasoning, wher...

Corroborated.

Stevenson observed that in the West, many would say ‘why study this issue? Everyone knows it’s just folklore.’ In the East, many would say, ‘why study...

That word only appears on this page in your posts on it. I have searched for the term in my electronic copy of WWR, and it doesn't seem to appear. I u...

The point of Bell’s inequality is not that it proves ‘randomness’. ‘Randomness’ is associated with the unpredictable nature of the ‘quantum leap’. Thi...

I think the 'get over it' attitude towards Schopenhauer thoroughly misunderstands his philosophy. And I think it also misunderstands what Schopenhauer...

These are really interesting questions, and a great shame this thread hasn't received the attention it warrants (except kudos to @"tim wood") when the...

I think the philosophical issue is that of the atomised individual ego becoming the locus of meaning in a universe that is now understood to be devoid...

It's up there with astrology, ghosts and UFO research, all generally categorised under the heading woo-woo. I accept the possibility, but I don't thin...

There is copious evidence of children who remember previous lives. This evidence was gathered by a researcher who followed up accounts of children who...

That is an exact analogy for the flat-earth belief that ships would sail off the edge of the Earth if they went far enough. No matter where the spaces...

There is a character called Prince Payasi in the earliy texts, who was indeed a textbook materialists. One of the anecdotes relates how he would seal ...

More intelligent, maybe. But more conscious - I don't know. Something is either conscius or it's not. Birds, bees, humans are conscious - unless they'...

Cameras are artefacts. They are built to capture images, by humans. They're an extension of human intentionality.

Another paragraph from the Schopenhauer essay: Which is what I meant when I said: it continues: I sincerely doubt that. Consider Durkheim's concept of...

I have been perusing a rather good article on Schopenhauer's philosophy of religion, from which this nugget: I'm inclined to agree with that. Looking ...

While the remainder believe we're fundamentally animals, and we ought not to concern ourselves with whatever can't be picked up, touched, smelled, etc...

The Buddhist world was always populated by gods (and demons, yaksas, various other supernatural beings.) But the dogma makes it clear that the Buddha ...

Oh. I took that as the implication of: Humans speak, create civilisations, make tools. That is not 'anthropomorphism', it's a simple fact. Even your m...

Agree, the Mughal invasion was not the only factor but it was a very major one. The bloodshed was of historic proportions (not only against Buddhists ...