[Case] > 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.
[Platt] Robust or not, it's an anomaly that according to mainstream science shouldn't happen. As such I find it a challenge to the materialist world view, just as Pirsig challenges the materialist world view because it "has no values." In other words, where an explanatory gap occurs, my antenna quivers. [Case] I do not see much connection between this sort of research and Pirsig but maybe I am not looking hard enough. As for the research itself the fact that is conducted at all sets my antenna aquiver but the fact than in nearly 100 years this is the best they can offer leads me to pretty much discount the entire enterprise. As I have mentioned before it is not the research has not been done it is that it has not yielded fruit. The study I mentioned recently of electronic monitoring of Tibetan monks looked like solid research and it produced some interesting results. Now that sets my antenna to quivering. 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/
