Mystery AtlasPhilosophy
Philosophical problems that frame the site's subjects — epistemology, scepticism, the demarcation of science from pseudoscience, thought experiments and paradoxes.
Questions
What Did the AWARE Studies Find About Near-Death Experiences?
What the AWARE and AWARE-II studies found about recalled awareness and EEG brain activity during cardiac arrest, and what the results do and don't show.
Why Do DMT Users Report Meeting Similar Beings?
Why DMT users across unconnected trials describe strikingly similar beings, what Rick Strassman's landmark study found, and how researchers explain it.
What Is the Global Consciousness Project, and Did It Find Anything?
What is the Global Consciousness Project? Its worldwide random-number-generator network, the 9/11 anomaly claim, and why statisticians disagree.
What Is the Demarcation Problem?
The demarcation problem explained: Popper's falsifiability criterion, Kuhn's critique, and why no single test cleanly separates science from pseudoscience.
What Is the Simulation Hypothesis?
The simulation hypothesis explained: Nick Bostrom's 2003 trilemma, the case for and against it, and why it's a philosophical argument, not a science.