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Astral Projection
The Skeptic’s Dictionary definition of the day … Astral projection is a type of out-of-body experience (OBE) in which the astral body leaves its other six bodies and journeys far and wide to anywhere...
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Seeing Sound, Tasting Color: Synesthesia
“There are many different forms,” says David Eagleman, a neuroscientist known for his ability to garner important insights into the nature of perception and consciousness through idiosyncratic...
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Temporal Binding
via NeuroLogica Blog Skeptics should add another term to their lexicon of self-deception and cognitive biases – temporal binding. Over the last half-century or so psychologists have been quietly...
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A Skeptic’s Guide to the Mind
by Harriet Hall via Science-Based Medicine In his first book, On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You’re Wrong, neurologist Robert Burton showed that our certainty that we are right...
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The Curious Case of Correlation ≠ Causation
By marwanayache via Sensitive Context Blog In my last post, I wrote about how not having enough contextual data can outright boggle the mind. Today, we’re going to read about something else that...
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How the Brain Creates Out-of-Body Experiences
By Tanya Lewis via LiveScience SAN DIEGO — The human mind effortlessly constructs the feeling of inhabiting a body, and now scientists are figuring out how the brain produces that experience. The...
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The Brain Is Not a Receiver
by Steven Novella via NeuroLogica Blog Whenever the discussion of a dualist vs materialist model of the mind comes up, one common point made to support the dualist position (that the mind is something...
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Shadow People and Sleep Paralysis
By Stuff They Don’t Want You to Know via YouTube Since the dawn of civilization, nightmares have haunted the human mind. But what are they, exactly? Why do some people think they’re more than...
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