Ron, Platt, Platt as cited this study several times to support various arguments. At best "2 or 3 flips out of 10,000" is not what I would call a robust result. The fact that it could not be duplicated is not very encouraging either.
Case -------------------------------------- Case, Platt, "In one of PEAR's standard experiments, the study participant would sit in front of an electronic box the size of a toaster oven, which flashed a random series of numbers just above and just below 100. Staff members instructed the person to simply "think high" or "think low" and watch the display. After thousands of repetitions - the equivalent of coin flips - the researchers looked for differences between the machine's output and random chance. Analyzing data from such trials, the PEAR team concluded that people could alter the behavior of these machines very slightly, changing about 2 or 3 flips out of 10,000." This sort of thing just fascinates me, that mechanism of division - "value". Conscious or random, subjective objective it is the same mechanism, it is universal. The fulcrum of determinism. It is variable and dependant on the bodies/entities involved. Any single entity is rendered useless and impotent when isolated and only has meaning And relavence in relation to other entities. Reality is defined by a system of countless simultanious "coin tosses" at every moment On every level with countless factors determining just which side of the divide they fall. So it seems god does roll dice and she flip coins too. -Ron moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
