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Title: Researcher offers scientific evidence people can see into the future
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URL Source: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/evidence-people-can-see-future/
Published: Nov 12, 2010
Author: Daniel Tencer
Post Date: 2010-11-12 06:37:46 by Ada
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Researcher offers scientific evidence people can see into the future A prominent psychological journal is expected to make history later this year when it publishes what is believed to be the first scientific paper arguing that humans can predict the future. But that doesn't mean you should rush out to the betting parlors just yet: While the research (PDF) shows statistically significant numbers to prove that people are capable of some degree of "precognition," the effect has to be repeated by other researchers many times before it becomes accepted scientific knowledge. And not even the researcher who carried out the experiment can explain how the future can affect past events. Researchers who have reviewed Cornell University psychologist Daryl Bem's paper say it's scientifically sound, reports New Scientist. "My personal view is that this is ridiculous and can't be true," says Joachim Krueger of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, who has blogged about the work on the Psychology Today website. "Going after the methodology and the experimental design is the first line of attack. But frankly, I didn't see anything. Everything seemed to be in good order." "In one experiment, students were shown a list of words and then asked to recall words from it, after which they were told to type words that were randomly selected from the same list," New Scientist reports. "Spookily, the students were better at recalling words that they would later type." To create experiments that a skeptical scientific community would believe, Bem decided against setting up questionable "tests" of soothsaying, and instead "reversed" existing psychological tests, running test subjects through them backwards. Science Daily reports: [M]any studies have found that people are slower to decide a picture is pleasant if they've seen a negative word right before looking at the picture. So someone reading the word "ugly" before seeing a picture of a lovely sunset will be slower to call the picture pretty than someone who just read the word "beautiful." This phenomenon is called "priming." Bem reversed that experiment, presenting the picture, then the response, and finally the priming word. And what do you know? He found something that looked very much like retroactive priming, in which people who would eventually be shown negative words were slower to say positive things about the pictures. In another test, subjects were told they were about to see an erotic image in one of two poses, and asked to predict the pose. Subjects predicted the result 53.1 percent of the time. That may seem like little more than the 50 percent one would expect in a random sample, but as New Scientist notes, "well-established phenomena such as the ability of low-dose aspirin to prevent heart attacks are based on similarly small effects." Bem told New Scientist that he took eight years to conduct the experiments and used more than 1,000 test subjects to gather enough evidence to publish his report. "I purposely waited until I thought there was a critical mass that wasn't a statistical fluke," he said. All the same, criticisms are inevitably beginning to mount. New Scientist reports: One failed attempt at replication has already been posted online. In this study, Jeff Galak of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Leif Nelson of the University of California, Berkeley, employed an online panel called Consumer Behavior Lab in an effort to repeat Bem's findings on the recall of words. Bem argues that online surveys are inconclusive, because it's impossible to know whether volunteers have paid sufficient attention to the task. Galak concedes that this is a limitation of the initial study, but says he is now planning a follow-up involving student volunteers that will more closely repeat the design of Bem's word-recall experiment. Bem's paper is scheduled to appear in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
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#1. To: Ada (#0)
My predictions of the future, are focused pretty much on cakes, pies and cookies.
It is better to be hated for what you are, than loved for what you are not. - Tommy The Mad Artist.
I walk by women and the street and predict which one will and which ones won't. "So...how about?" POW!!! My success rate isn't too good so far.
"If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption, indifferent and incapable of a wholesome care over so wide a spread of surface. This will not be borne, and you will have to choose between reform and revolution. If I know the spirit of this country, the one or the other is inevitable." - Thomas Jefferson
Of course precognition is real. There is already abundant evidence, but because it runs contrary to the materialist world view that all we are is animate meat i.e., animals it scares the bejeezus out of the Psychs and their masters. Some individuals have exhibited the talent to an extraordinary degree - Nostradamus and Edgar Cayce come readily to mind. Of course the waters have, to some degree, been muddied by a legion of frauds and charlatans who have claimed ability where they have little or none. Even apparently ordinary people, at times, exhibit the ability forseeing their own death, that of others, or catastrophes about to happen. One of the lesser known stories of the Titanic disaster is the number of people who missed the boat or canceled at the last minute due to forebodings of doom should they make the voyage. I have commented before on the tendency of materialistic "science" to disregard, downplay, ignore, and degrade that which the "current" theories do not explain. Such "inconveniences" are explained away or derided as "unscientific" when the actual failure to apply the scientific method is the unwillingness of the authorities of the day to undertake to explore where the anomalous event or evidence leads and to dismiss contradictory evidence and events only because it is contradictory to the current learned fad.
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator
There has been ample scientific evidence. There is a DVD out of this that is very engaging. http://www.edmitchellapollo14.com/naturearticle.htm Abstract This paper presents a hypothesis for integrating into the scientific framework phenomena of consciousness which frequently have been considered beyond scientific description. Intuition, telepathy, clairvoyance and many similar information phenomena seem to be easily explained by means of the nonlocal quantum hologram. It is further postulated that from the point of view of evolution, quantum nonlocality is the basis from which self-organizing cosmological processes have produced the common phenomenon of perception in living organisms. Keywords: quantum hologram, perception, telepathy, nonlocal, intuition
Tough women come from New York, sweet women from Texas, prissy women from Southern California, but we NORTHERN CALIFORNIA WOMEN have fire & ice in our blood. We can ride 4-wheelers, be a princess, throw a left hook, pack heat, hunt with the men, bake a cake, love with passion, and if we have an opinion, you know you're going to hear it!! The problem with this is that it is an attempt to resolve non-material phenomena in material terms i.e., it is a materialist attempt to resolve the conflict of observed phenomena occuring in a non-material reference plane in the context of the material plane. Witness that it is also an attempt to resolve the Intelligent Design View in terms of the material universe creating itself. It quickly becomes a logical contradiction in that what it is basically postulating is that non-sentient inanimate matter creates sentience and more matter. Whereas my argument would be the exact contrary i.e., that the a priori condition is sentience and from sentience you get created energy which in turn is basically what matter is i.e., solid energy. So, we come back to the effective "Chicken and The Egg" argument, and its contratdictions, which the materialists rely upon. "Which came first, awareness or the material world." The resolution is a paradox if one posits that the materialist view is the correct view. If one posits that awareness came first, and than "man" in is core essence is not material but spiritual i.e., an awareness - Bergson's "Force Vitale" (or life force) then the picture begins to resolve. Of course that still doesn't answer what created the awareness. Still an imponderable of existence.
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator
Every man should know that extra-sensory ability is real. Just about anyone can sense someone staring at them.
What it does is apply particle physics to the macro universe.
Tough women come from New York, sweet women from Texas, prissy women from Southern California, but we NORTHERN CALIFORNIA WOMEN have fire & ice in our blood. We can ride 4-wheelers, be a princess, throw a left hook, pack heat, hunt with the men, bake a cake, love with passion, and if we have an opinion, you know you're going to hear it!!
#2. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#1)
My predictions of the future, are focused pretty much on cakes, pies and cookies.
#3. To: Ada, christine, farmfriend, wudidiz, TwentyTwelve, abraxas, all (#0)
#4. To: Original_Intent, Ada, christine, wudidiz, TwentyTwelve, abraxas (#3)
Nature's Mind: the Quantum Hologram Edgar Mitchell, Sc.D.
#5. To: farmfriend (#4)
#6. To: Ada, Original_Intent, farmfriend (#0)
If I stare at the back of a womans head, she turns around and looks at me.
There is obviously some kind of connection.
#7. To: Armadillo (#6)
Every man should know that extra-sensory ability is real. If I stare at the back of a womans head, she turns around and looks at me. There is obviously some kind of connection.
#8. To: Original_Intent, Armadillo (#5)
The problem with this is that it is an attempt to resolve non-material phenomena in material terms i.e., it is a materialist attempt to resolve the conflict of observed phenomena occuring in a non-material reference plane in the context of the material plane.
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