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Hi, bob. I don't think you have anything to apologize for at all. I enjoyed your posts. Granted, it got a bit hot on the threads on religion, though I think I'd term them more accurately the threads on Judaism and Christianity, and the subject of religion still occurs on threads. An example...

Berger's experiment is a shaky thing, a mere ten pages of flimsy edifice, on which to hang one's faith, and that's all it is, a form of faith itself, albeit a thin form. This is true on the face of it, but even if the debate on this thread was judged on debate points alone, the conclusions...

Well, Angelo, I'm going to only sidle up to "that subject" obliquely and facetiously, but the point in this post is, "that subject" put aside, that some of the major researchers into the nature of consciousness are perplexed indeed how consciousness can be ONLY a byproduct of the neurochemical...

Great video, tyder! Kim

Hey, tyder, just writing facetiously, as you no doubt surmised! I'm finding that's the best way, writing tongue in cheek, like my post above. I would have used a smile face, but with this iPad, I just can't locate the "faces bank"! Kim

Now tyder, don't you dare go down for the count here. Hey, you ain't even been hit on the chin. Word games, my friend, you're letting yourself be confused by the seeming flurry of blows, but none of them have hit you, much less taken you down. Hang on to your humanity, don't be turned into a...

Well told, Bob. I did get a tingling feeling as I read it. Don't let your father in law get too far down the rabbit hole, though. Great story, and I was visualizing the video you posted on another thread that you said was of an object that resembled your sighting. But you said yours was...

Good points, pickles and tyder. Kim's syllogism: Boeing 747s do not equal nuts and bolts UFOs Gorillas do not equal Bigfoot Therefore, huh, what's the point?

Vesvehighfolk, your sighting is indeed intriguing, and don't think I discount it because I don't think there is much possibility of intelligent extraterrestrials! No doubt you saw something for sure, and it doesn't mean your senses let you down, or that you were "seeing things that weren't...

Hi, goggs, and no disrespect taken at all. I used to enjoy the sensation or feeling that UFOs were extraterrestrial craft, but on every level I just don't believe that it is remotely possible. I will admit there's an inherent element of what you term it can't be true so it isn't, as you put...

It's all in the mind, even ultimately the ten best cases and leslie's cases (and I really do like her as a journalist and her take on it from that perspective, and reading those from the horse's mouth narratives in her book are truly titillating and goose-pimply, and the fact I'd love to take...

Again, my gratitude for the link to this experiment at USC. It led me to do further research on it and its possible implications. My thoughts are on my last post in this interesting thread. I had already found and read the actual article Ted Berger, et al had published in The journal of...

Interesting research indeed, especially as it may promise help for people with paralysis, parkinson's, and a host of other misfortunes, a couple of which I have personal knowledge of from my own family. Some additional research beyond that link is needed to get the full details of what the...

Goggs, Peter Noone will be in Scotland the next few days, Aberdeen tomorrow, I think it is. Just letting any uk inhabitants know that he's been doing a uk tour for a while over there. Thing is, goggs, I think you might be too young to remember him! I loved him in the sixties, and have been to...

Seriously, Angelo, I agree with you. I've tried stopping this stuff with him, very directly and accommodatingly, but you see how this is perpetuated by him. I came into this thread because I was interested in the topic, as is evidenced by my participation in other threads about the brain and...

Gosh, Tyder, I hope you weren't referring to me in my review of Stephen Cave's book on another thread!:) I just pointed out sort of self consciously that as a guy of sixty I felt a bit juvenile using one of those faces to express what I felt about the book (tongue in cheek), but that I enjoyed...

Mike, I'll address you personally since you have brought all this here now, too, even in your own thread. I thought I deserved a bit of indulgence in pointing out that I don't think you read too much. I don't. Was a reason for saying it that you personally attacked me yet again? Yes...

Well, I wouldn't presume to question the credentials of many very, very intelligent and even brilliant people, and I have read Kurzweil's book The Singularity is Near, and I, like he does, certainly think that technology will keep growing and growing to things I can't even begin to envision. I...

I'd heard of Randall Koene before, don't know much about him, but what research I've done on this Carbon Copies stuff is pretty wild to put it mildly. "Scanning" and "emulating" the brain to create a virtual person, I know that's a bit simplistic, but all in all from what I've found out it's...

Realized I was probably showing my age by mentioning seven days in may! A real classic, though, and timeless. Kim