c/rupert-sheldrake
Lectures, debates, and dialogues by biologist Rupert Sheldrake — morphic resonance, telepathy, and challenging materialist science.
…have to read the evidence. And I said, well... You know, if you have such a strong opinion without reading the evidence, Dan, there's a name for that. It's called prejudice. And he got terribly angry. And it triggers off very strong emotional reactions…
…which was a bit of an effort, because I was convinced this is true. So I think that the precognitive dreams that Dan showed, most people probably have them except they forget them because they forget most of their dreams and they're often about trivial…
…now in a position thank god to to to get away from but At the moment, I ask, for instance, Oliver or Dan, is nature non-moral, not amoral, non-moral? Which nature? The nature that includes humanity or the nature that excludes humanity? No, nature that…
…those forests are there. But from the trees' point of view, it's a terrible waste. When you talk about humans and other species, Dan, you said that if you say that humans have, for instance, souls, the other species have not. You said there isn't such a…
…call, I mean... What we can conceive of as conceivable mechanistic models covers an enormous... I mean, take the point that Dan made earlier about the difference between plants and animals. I mean, for a long time, our philosophical colleagues were arguing…
…game, then even Steve might be... I'd probably take two seats or something. No, I mean, Sir David, I think the... I'm sure what Dan was saying was that down the road somewhere we shall get to the point at which we shall know how to specify what a…
…it is. And that doesn't seem to me to be a very outrageous thing to say. You said before he's just going about Dan. He's just going to keep people in the business of trying to reconcile our everyday understanding with an out-of-date view on physics.…
…Dennett, who's a fellow, a materialist philosopher and a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. And I said to him, Dan, do you think that parapsychology is a pseudoscience? He said, of course it is. He said, because it's investigating phenomena that…
…This was again said in another context. What I was wanting to get at is the sense I have that that Oliver and Dan were not contradicting one another, that what Oliver was underlining was the fact that the sorts of computer modeling we have available to…
…sorts of computer modeling we have available to us in detail at the moment aren't yet within several miles of being able to do what Dan says one of these days we would be able to do if we were prepared to send real billions on it. Well, I'm not sure…
…that question at least is settled. I mean, what the nature of the possession relation is, you can go into it. I suddenly remember, Dan, you asking, can we become immortal, you gave the answer, yes. The idea that the self or the soul is really just an…
…be related to the magic tissue or wonder tissue of quantum theory, which... I like very much what you said, Freeman, about, you know, Dan may not want it in biology, but physicists deal with it all the time. My own feeling is that there are huge areas…
…books in England and elsewhere recently, which see science as a great spoiler of human life and perception. Perhaps this is your point, Dan, and in a way sort of say that the poetic outline of the hill is threatened by any theory of hill formation or…
…are the first books everybody can remember? Moon Man and Otto, or... Lucky to be a Yankee by Joe DiMaggio. Books, books, books. Dan, do you remember the first book that's come to your mind? Have you said the first book you have been reading? Or the…