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Uncle Joe

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Fri Jun 14, 2024, 02:20 PM Jun 2024

Evidence That Your Mind is NOT Just In Your Brain - Rupert Sheldrake [View all]



In this episode Rupert Sheldrake, biologist and author, debunks the standard view that the mind is nothing but brain activity and argues that our mind is extended in every act of visual perception.

Rupert has designed an app to enable you to test your sensitivity to being looked at from behind, and to find out if you can improve with practice. The test takes just a few minutes to complete. https://www.sheldrake.org/participate . If you find you or your partner can indeed improve with practice, scoring repeatedly and fairly reliably above 75%, please let us know by email at sheldrake@sheldrake.org

For more information about Rupert Sheldrake's research, visit https://www.sheldrake.org/

This talk was part of the 2023 Holberg Debate at the University of Bergen with the neuroscientist Anil Seth and the anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann. The full debate can be seen here: • Does Consciousness Extend Beyond Brai...
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Real men stare at goats. Arne Jun 2024 #1
GOATS DECLASSIFIED: The True Story Behind The Men Who Stare At Goats Uncle Joe Jun 2024 #2
Teachings of Don Huan when I was young Arne Jun 2024 #5
really enjoy Rupert Sheldrake. Previously encountered his talks on Morphic Resonance. Thank you. somaticexperiencing Jun 2024 #3
Fascinating dickthegrouch Jun 2024 #4
Sounds like pure pseudo science to me. The senses are useless without the processing of sensory information Martin68 Jun 2024 #6
I'd say the same thing if it hadn't been tested, verified, and replicated. Warpy Jun 2024 #7
Olfactory signals are meaningless until processed by the brain. The same goes for sensory information from the eyes, Martin68 Jun 2024 #9
I was just looking for an answer to satsfy the materialist thinkers Warpy Jun 2024 #11
Well, we're made of sub-atomic particles and observing sub-atomic particles changes their behavior. Uncle Joe Jun 2024 #15
It's as good as any and will impress pople who can't name a sub atomic particle. Warpy Jun 2024 #16
Instinct resides in the brain. Martin68 Jun 2024 #17
Yes. However from which sense; does the brain receive the "being watched" information Uncle Joe Jun 2024 #18
I assume instinct coordinates information from all the senses in addition to memories from relevant experiences Martin68 Jun 2024 #19
Except that it seems more primordial to me as the heaviest demographic experiencing Uncle Joe Jun 2024 #20
modern science is still in it's infancy. cynical_idealist Jun 2024 #8
In many ways that's true, but it certainly is less of an infancy than it was 100 years ago, not to mention 2,000 years Martin68 Jun 2024 #10
Anyone familiar with the work NJCher Jun 2024 #12
It sure felt as if I did in the 1980s to Jonathan Parker's meditation tapes Uncle Joe Jun 2024 #13
Surprised I didn't know about this NJCher Jun 2024 #14
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