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Explaining consciousness remains one of the top unanswered challenges in science and philosophy today. How can the warmth of love, the bitterness of disappointment, the redness of an apple, the sweetness of strawberries, be explained in terms of mass, momentum, charge, spin, or any of the attributes of matter? How can concrete qualities be explained in terms of abstract quantities and relationships? Nobody has an answer to this, and not for lack of trying. Such…
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The odds of a sizable asteroid striking Earth are small, but they’re never zero. Large asteroids have struck Earth in the past, causing regional devastation. A really large asteroid strike likely contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs, reports universetoday.com. So we shouldn’t be too surprised that astronomers have discovered an asteroid with a better than 1% chance of striking our world. Those odds are large enough we should keep an eye on them, but…
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Strange Tales of Mysterious Vanishing Phantom Towns Source link
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Welcome to r/OpenMindScience, a new subreddit that features everything from peer-reviewed research to emerging theories and unconventional ideas. Explore science, technology, consciousness, the UAP phenomenon, and other mysteries of the Universe. Engage with both mainstream and alternative perspectives in the pursuit of deeper understanding of life as we know it. If you believe science thrives on open minds and bold questions, this is the community for you. Subscribe now to r/OpenMindScience! Jake Carter Jake Carter…
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T. Rexes in the News: A Pregnant One, A Horned One and a Wannabe One Source link