In their book Mindsight, Dr. Kenneth Ring and Sharon Cooper report on in-depth interviews with 31 people who were fully or partially blind and had a near-death experience where they could see. One of their subjects was Vicki Noratuk who had been blind from birth when she was involved in a car […]
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By Paul Kieniewicz So, we may one day all be replaced by intelligent machines. One day, given enough computational power, machines will become self-aware. According to some AI researchers, some machines already have a measure of self-awareness. Of consciousness. And then, there’s the fabled Singularity, when the machine surpasses the […]
The following policies are adopted by the Scientific and Medical Network (SMN): Data Protection 1. The SMN seeks at all time to be compliant with the requirements of the EU General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) which is effective 25th May 2018. 2. The SMN has appointed one of its Directors, […]
Paul Kieniewicz talks about the fascinating story of how the astronomer Johannes Kepler came to discover that the planets in the Solar System move in tune to a certain music.
Continental Meeting Poland 7th – 11th September 2017 Shaping Influences by Eve Hicks (SMN) This year’s Continental Meeting of the SMN marked the 25th anniversary of the first such meeting that was organised in Switzerland by Kevin Ashbridge. Since then some 14 different countries have hosted this event, […]
By Paul Kieniewicz The slime mold Physarum polycephalum (diameter: around 10 centimeters), made up of a single cell, was here cultivated in the laboratory on agar gel. It’s a fair assumption. If we’re looking for intelligent behavior in an animal, it had better have a brain, or at the very […]
Ultimate Questions David Lorimer COSMOSAPIENS John Hands Duckworth, 2015, 704 pp., £30, h/b – ISBN 978-0-715-649558 10 years in the making, this tour de force is a critical examination of scientific theories and evidence – systematic observation or experiment – about the origin and evolution of matter, life, consciousness and […]
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