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Title: Testing nonlocal observation as a source of intuitive knowledge
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Dean Radin
URL Source: http://amnap.blogspot.com/2007/06/t ... cal-observation-as-source.html
Published: Jun 15, 2007
Author: Dean Radin
Post Date: 2007-06-15 01:31:05 by Horse
Keywords: None
Views: 197
Comments: 6
This study explored the hypothesis that in some cases intuitive knowledge arises from perceptions that are not mediated through the ordinary senses. The possibility of detecting such “nonlocal observation” was investigated in a pilot test based on the effects of observation on a quantum system. Participants were asked to imagine that they could intuitively perceive a low intensity laser beam in a distant Michelson interferometer. If such observation were possible, it would theoretically perturb the photons’ quantum wave-functions and change the pattern of light produced by the interferometer. The optical apparatus was located inside a light-tight, double steel-walled shielded chamber. Participants sat quietly outside the chamber with eyes closed. The light patterns were recorded by a cooled CCD camera once per second, and average illumination levels of these images were compared in counterbalanced “mental blocking” vs. non-blocking conditions. Interference would produce a lower overall level of illumination, which was predicted to occur during the blocking condition. Based on a series of planned experimental sessions, the outcome was in accordance with the prediction (z = -2.82, p = 0.002). This result was primarily due to nine sessions involving experienced meditators (combined z = -4.28, p = 9.4 × 10-6); the other nine sessions with non- meditators were not significant (combined z = 0.29, p = 0.61). The same experimental protocol run immediately after 15 of these test sessions, but with no one present, revealed no hardware or protocol artifacts that might have accounted for these results (combined control z = 1.50, p = 0.93). Conventional explanations for these results were considered and judged to be implausible. This pilot study suggests the presence of a nonlocal perturbation effect which is consistent with traditional concepts of intuition as a direct means of gaining knowledge about the world, and with the predicted effects of observation on a quantum system.
Poster Comment: I have read of an experiment where it was determined that the human body reacted more quickly to a stimulus than would be allowed for if the brain had to direct local neurons to tell them to make the body flinch as an object approached rapidly. This would suggest that decision making is made outside of the body and that the brain is tricked into thinking that it made the decision.
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#1. To: gengis gandhi, Diana, Minerva (#0)
This article might change our thoughts about how the mind works. Mind is not local because it is not confined to the brain and therefore to the concepts of time and space.
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I tend to agree with that because of personal experiences.
In other words, consciousness is EXTERNAL to the mind, and the function of the brain is more like a "radio receiver" than like a "computer".
#2. To: Horse (#1)
#3. To: Horse (#1)
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#4. To: Diana (#2)
This explains why men are from UR-Anus and women are from Vain- us. It would appear that the non-local concept could account for the fact that our universal perception of men always being assholes and women shit for brains is logically explained once we understand that each sex receives its signals or brain waves from a different planet. hehehehehehehe !!!
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#5. To: Horse (#1)
very cool
"Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit---to the "conquest" of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature." -Alan Watts /
#6. To: Horse (#0)
same is true for big league hitters who swing before they have actually processed the info. l
I have read of an experiment where it was determined that the human body reacted more quickly to a stimulus than would be allowed for if the brain had to direct local neurons to tell them to make the body flinch as an object approached rapidly. This would suggest that decision making is made outside of the body and that the brain is tricked into thinking that it made the decision.
"Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit---to the "conquest" of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature." -Alan Watts /
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