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A very interesting talk by Donald Hoffman, a cognitive scientist. In it, he outlines his theory that our perceptions of reality are analogous to a graphical interface and only as attuned to our environment as evolutionary fitness demands. In essence, he views our perception of reality as a...

A very interesting discussion.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/20...-free-will-an-illusion?source=techstories.org A large number of scientists and philosophers make the claim that the human being is simply a collection of atoms operating in a deterministic way and that consciousness itself is just the product of these...

The Bronze Age collapse is interesting, if little understood by many.

Cuimhnich The MacIains of Glencoe - The last recorded crest for the MacIains of Glencoe is a hand holding a sgain dhu, pronounced ske-in gu meaning 'dark dagger', surrounded by an open laurel wreath. This branch of Clan Donald does not currently have a chief registered with the Lord Lyon so...

Scotland was named after the ancient Egyptian princess. They were red haired people, Just like the ancient Egyptian mummies were found to be. They settled in Ireland, Scotland and Scandinavia. The three areas were there is the highest percentage concentration of redheads. The History Of The...

Bricriu’s Feast, Middle Irish Fled Bricrenn, in early Irish literature, a comic, rowdy account of rivalry between Ulster warriors. One of the longest hero tales of the Ulster cycle, it dates from the 8th century and is preserved in The Book of the Dun Cow (c. 1100). Bricriu, the trickster...

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A thread regarding the Moberly-Jourdain incident of 1901 in which two women strolling throughout the gardens at the Palace or Versailles claimed to have come across what seemed the ghosts of pre- revolutionary aristocrats, though at the time they did not seem to have thought they had encountered...

Wisconsin’s Most Haunted: Dartford Cemetery According to the official visitor’s guide, the quiet town of Green Lake is known as the oldest resort community west of Niagara Falls. David Greenway opened the Oakwood Hotel on the lake in 1867, which attracted guests from as far away as the East...

Astral projection (or astral travel), is a term used in esotericism to describe an intentional out-of-body experience (OBE) that assumes the existence of a soul called an "astral body" that is separate from the physical body and capable of travelling outside it throughout the universe. The idea...

Leap Castle A Red Lady ghost is reported to walk the halls holding a dagger. Two little girls named Charlotte and Emily are reported to run up and down the spiral staircase. Emily died after she fell from the battlements on the top of the castle's tower and Charlotte can still be seen...

Borley Rectory Borley Rectory was a house that gained infamy as "the most haunted house in England" after being described as such by psychic researcher Harry Price. Built in 1862 to house the rector of the parish of Borley and his family, it was badly damaged by fire in 1939 and demolished...

The Highgate Vampire was a media sensation surrounding reports of supposed supernatural activity at Highgate Cemetery in London in the 1970s. The most thorough account of the story is given by folklorist Bill Ellis in the journal Folklore. Contents 1 Initial publicity 2 March 1970 mob 3...

"More than one billion people use London underground annually, yet few of them know just how haunted the tube really is. We investigate the supernatural secrets of the oldest underground network in the world. Our hair-raising journey takes us through the graves, church crypts and plague pits...

A screaming skull is a paranormal object, a human skull which per legend speaks, screams, or otherwise haunts its environs. The legend is most found in England and other English-speaking regions. The Bettiscombe screaming skull of Dorset, England, is attested at least as early as 1897 in the...

Is it possible to connect thousands of human minds to form a single super-intelligence that can control AI?

In Ireland, we're used to modern architecture being pig ignorant trash, produced for maximum profit. That comes of having our nation ruled by a pig ignorant ruling class. It wasn't always that way. Even though they were bastards, the Anglo-Irish Ascendency weren't pig ignorant - and they built...