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Is Kurzweil considered a quack (crackpot) by the scientific community?
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Do Humans Have Souls Beyond Mind and Body?
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Name of Economist Chomsky Mentions: Milton Friedman
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Ethics — What if we just keep asking why?
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Origin and purpose of the recent tendency
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Good suggestions to protect your personal identity
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Is it true that over half of humanity at present has never used a telephone?
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Patent Infringement and Manufacturing
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Newton's Third Law of Motion: Action & Reaction Impact on Creation
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Richard Dawkins and James Randi about Bleep
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Reincarnation technically possible?
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Consciousness in the materialist perspective.
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Second Hand College Texts Online?
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Was the Physics Forums Ultrasound Post an April Fools' Joke?
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Why are there more societies where the people are oppressed than free?
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