Category: Consciousness
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Plants are clever and conscious. Universe is… the same. [Dissipated consciousness]
Plants are intelligent. Plants deserve rights. Plants are like the Internet – or more accurately the Internet is like plants. To most of us these statements may sound, at best, insupportable or, at worst, crazy. But a new book, Brilliant Green: the Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence, by plant neurobiologist (yes, plant neurobiologist),…
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Choose your reality. Literally. [Quantum mechanics vs. Materialism 1-0]
Reality doesn’t exist until it’s measured, at least for very small things, new research has found. By replicating a famous experiment where an object is given a choice for how to behave, physicists found that the object doesn’t actually make its decision until it is seen. The finding proves one of the central parts of…
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Head transplant. Waves. Resonance. Life…
Things didn't go so great for Victor Frankenstein or his monster, but don't tell that to Sergio Canavero. The Italian doctor believes that it's now possible to slice the head of off one person, stitch it to the decapitated body of another, and then reanimate the two-human mash-up. What's more, he says the first head…
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Without humans...
What would happen if all humans suddenly vanished from the face of the planet? That freaky thought experiment is explored in a new video from YouTube's AsapSCIENCE. (1) But can humans dissapear? Can consciousness leave the cosmos? Can the world NOT be?
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Ayahuasca. Hallucinations. Miracles. Subjectivity. Freedom.
Drink ayahuasca and you may see yourself being eaten by a crocodile. You may find a miraculous resolution to a crippling sadness. Or, more likely, you’ll land somewhere in between. Regardless, you will definitely throw up. Author and ethnobotanist Chris Kilham says all of these things have happened to him after drinking this psychoactive Amazonian…
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