If psychic phenomenon exist as radio waves the energy would drop so fast as
to be worthless.
But we can not dismiss quantum entanglement. Any trivial energy can
entangle a larger power
source and effect its behavior. This is supported in Bell's inequality
theorem . The question
then can be raised do local events exist. I would say yes and our
traditional rules apply from
a classical view, but randomness is not randomness but is casual in that
everything effects
everything else in the universe, but the effect weakens with RELATIVE
distance/time from the entangling events. This means that associations or
correlations will generate "psychic" like events which
means the universe and its local systems must interact as a hole but is free
and not free at the same time.
Freedom is gaussian.
Ron
----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff Ricker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: TIPS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, July 25, 1999 12:16 PM
Subject: The EEG and ESP (and other psychic phenomena)
> Hello all you TIPSies,
>
> I wanted to get a message in before everyone took their midmorning and
> afternoon naps. Because of various projects (both home-related and
> work-related), I have contributed little to TIPS this summer. I thought
> I should rectify that somewhat. While reading on the stair climber this
> morning, I came across the following "fun fact" that I had never heard
> before. According to Beyerstein (1999), Hans Berger, the developer of
> the electroencephalogram, intended his device to measure neural activity
> associated with psychic phenomena:
>
> "The German psychiatrist, Hans Berger (1873-1941), was initially moved
> to adapt for human use the apparatus employed by earlier researchers to
> record the electrical activity of animals' brains because he thought it
> might reveal a mechanism that could account for psychic phenomena
> (Beyerstein, 1985). Berger saw the equipment he developed and named the
> _electroencephalogram_ ... as a means of reconciling his spiritual
> beliefs with science. To the dismay of his colleagues, he even devoted
> part of his inaugural address when he became Rector of the University of
> Jena to the use of the EEG in the study of clairvoyance and telepathy.
> In the last publication of his life, Berger outlined his theory of how
> thoughts could be propagated telepathically by radiating brain waves.
> Unfortunately, these fluctuating brain currents (at one time known as
> the "Berger rhythm") obey the inverse square law and drop to
> infinitesimal levels only millimetres from the scalp." (P. 64)
>
> Perhaps we have such a hard time finding evidence for psychic phenomena
> because of the overuse of anti-dandruff shampoo: we're washing away our
> Berger Rhythms.
>
> I post, therefore I am,
>
> Jeff
>
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>
> References:
>
> Beyerstein, B.L. (1985). The myth of alpha conscioosness. _The Skeptical
> Inquirer_, _10_ (No. 1), 42-59.
>
> Beyerstein, B. L. (1999). Pseudoscience and the brain: Tuners and tonics
> for aspiring superhumans. In S. Della Sala (Ed.), _Mind myths: Exploring
> popular assumptions about the mind and brain_ (pp. 59-82). New York:
> John Wiley & Sons.
>
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>
> "For every problem, there is a solution that is neat, simple, and
> wrong." H. L. Mencken
>
>
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