RobP3 wrote:I'll answer my own question
So, As Amit Goswami explains in his book The Self-Aware Universe (1995), part of this black wall is that mechanistic science can’t explain subjective phenomena, while we humans are, after all, subjects, and not objects in our science. We are the observers of nature, not the observed, hence we are the subjects of our scientific scrutiny or voyage. And as such we are entangled with our observation, which means that we cannot honestly claim that we can achieve one hundred percent of objectiveness in any kind of scientific research endeavor. That means that a part of the field will always remain black, and if we complain about that, it won’t change the fact.
Why then, with these adaptions so evident, are psychic abilities not equally present? Where are they? Why have the advantages of these powers not been selected-for? (Just pit a mean psychic hamster against a tiger and watch the tiger being tamed!)
[For that matter, why are we (all animals and plants and insects and bacteria) all not armed with a bristling pack of psychic powers, probing and defending-against those around us for sheer survival? Why has there been no psychic arms-race?]
B) If it is argued that the abilities are just now emerging and are very rare, then how do you explain the evolution/biology of that?
If we accept the irrational concept of the powers being 'piped' into our brains (or the select brains of psychics) then we still bring the powers down to a material/biological viewpoint. Those powers would still influence who lives and who dies; evolution. Today we should all be packed with powers and wearing capes with our underwear on the outside.
Consider also an example makes this clearer. Suppose I'm on a rowboat in the ocean pretending to be a radio transmitter and you're on the shore pretending to be a radio receiver. Let's say I want to send a distress signal to you. I could rock the boat up and down quickly in the water to send big waves to you. If there are already waves traveling past my boat, from the distant ocean to the shore, my movements are going to make those existing waves much bigger. In other words, I will be using the waves passing by as a carrier to send my signal and, because I'll be changing the height of the waves, I'll be transmitting my signal by amplitude modulation. Alternatively, instead of moving my boat up and down, I could put my hand in the water and move it quickly back and forth. Now I'll make the waves travel more often—increasing their frequency. So, in this case, my signal will travel to you by frequency modulation.Sending information by changing the shapes of waves is an example of an analog process. This means the information you are trying to send is represented by a direct physical change (the water moving up and down or back and forth more quickly).
...Einstein-Rosen "bridges" aka wormholes proposed as possible for the quantum level!! . - quote from their original infamous 1935 paper.On the other hand one does not see a priori whether the theory [worm holes] contains the quantum phenomena. Nevertheless, one should not exclude a priori the possibility that the theory may contain them.
"It sounds very jazzy, but quantum teleportation is actually about making connections for information," said Bernstein. "What it does is send the complete quantum state from a single particle that comes specially prepared in that state to a different remote particle which has never interacted with it."
The analog would be, instead of using a sphere, we are going to use a torus, or donut shape. A sphere can only rotate on an axis, and there is no way to get an opposite point for every point on a sphere by rotating it—because the axis points, the north and the south, don’t move. With a donut, if you rotate it 180 degrees, every point becomes its opposite.
She then sends a key to Bob over traditional communication channels, indicating what operation he must perform on his photon to prepare the same quantum state, thus teleporting the information. Hyperentangled Quantum Teleportation Signals
If you think that isn't fair, then check this out In ethnological terms the exotic word pirie or peerie “…consequently Peri becomes in the mouth of an Arab Feti” (Edwards, 1974), which migrated to England via France to become ‘fairy’. In ancient Egyptian myth fairies paralleled the Seven Hathors or patronesses of childbirth, those regarded as ‘fairy godmothers’ (MacCulloch, 1911). The word feerie or fay-erie in modern French means land, realm, enchantment, or where the enchantment took place. The land of enchantment or fairyland is where dwell the fays or fee of medieval France. The faie or fee found in Old French originate with the fata of Late Latin meaning one of the fates or tutelary and guardian spirits.
"The researchers found that the presence of random noise in the fish's sensory nerve cells improved its ability to detect plankton. What happens is that the noise can push the plankton's weak electrical signals over the threshold at which the paddlefish can detect them. In effect, the noise interacts with the signal and amplifies it."
Bill wrote:Dear voidisyinyang
This is one of the implications of the well known but highly non-intuitive principle that looking at something changes it in the quantum realm.
It works based on the fact that, in the quantum world, all light particles can be fully described by wave functions, rather than as particles. So by embedding messages in light the researchers were able to transmit this message without ever directly sending a particle.
The team explains that the basic idea for this set up came from holography technology.
"In the 1940s, a new imaging technique - holography - was developed to record not only light intensity but also the phase of light," the researchers write in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"One may then pose the question: Can the phase of light itself be used for imaging? The answer is yes."
The basic idea is this - someone wants to send an image to Alice using only light (which acts as a wave, not a particle, in the quantum realm).
Alice transfers a single photon to the nested interferometer, where it can be detected by three single-photon detectors: D0, D1, and Df.
If D0 or D1 'click', Alice can conclude a logic result of one or zero. If Df clicks, the result is considered inconclusive.
As Christopher Packham explains for Phys.org:
"After the communication of all bits, the researchers were able to reassemble the image - a monochrome bitmap of a Chinese knot. Black pixels were defined as logic 0, while white pixels were defined as logic 1 ...
In the experiment, the phase of light itself became the carrier of information, and the intensity of the light was irrelevant to the experiment."
I-mon wrote:See now that we're talking about actual quantum physics, it's actually quite interesting!
As has been pointed out, however, the connections between these ideas and people taking axe blows to the sternum, or holding the right hand higher than the left (or is it the other way round?) while not ejaculating in order to develop psychic powers, are not getting any clearer after 8 pages.
It’s easier to accept things in their natural flow
….I didn’t listen and so the Universe will say, “o.k. if you didn’t listen I’ll really show you why you should be doing this.”….The key is being open to listening, that’s the hardest thing. If you get five seconds of focus you’re doing something. You slow yourself down, to maintain your focus, breathing is an important part, if you can pull the visualization without losing the connection, then it’s much easier to shift the energy. If I inhale and exhale and be more objective, not so subjectively pulled into the experience, it would be like taking a snap-shot, looking at the snap-shot, keeping it steady while I was breathing. I could then keep my focus on something for an extended period of time. All I had to do was wait and the energy would shift on its own.
There is a subtle fact about relative velocities that is not always explicitly mentioned in books on relativity, and a failure to grasp this subtle fact may be a cause of some of the confusion about superluminal motion. In special relativity all velocities (except for the velocity of light itself) are relative, including zero and infinite velocity....Dainton, et. al., possibly have confused the invariant fact that any superluminal propagation has infinite velocity relative to one frame (which one depends on the spacetime trajectory of the superluminal effect) with the notion (not correct) that any superluminal propagation would be invariantly infinite for all frames....Thus, there certainly is a theory that allows for influences which are instantaneous in one frame and finite (though superluminal) in all others; it is called 'special relativity.'...instantaneous in their mutual rest frame....Whether or not the local clock readings are equal at A and B is therefore independent of whether or not A and B are at the same global time coordinate in some inertial frame or other....Einstein's way of defining time-coordinate simultaneity neither assumes nor requires that light signals be either the fastest or the only way of communicating between distant events; it's only about what can be accomplished with light signals....an obvious candidate is phase: it is far more natural to think of wave functions as reducing over hypersurfaces of constant phase, and this automatically gives a covariant picture; ...While relativity is far more amenable to superluminal influences than has been generally supposed, ultimately it is classical relativity that must adapt itself to the quantum....Bohm and Hiley themselves were not comfortable with theories like de Broglie's later approach because such theories imply that any particle interacts via a four-dimensional wave field with other particles both past and future throughout spacetime....Thus, Bohm and Hiley rejected covariant pictures of nonlocality (such as de Broglie's) not because they are technically out of the question, but because they tend to violate classical expectations or intuitions about causality....while such a theory would do violence to classical intuitions (prejudices?) about the proper order of cause and effect it is quite likely that it would not allow for outright logical paradoxes of the kind that worried Bohm and Hiley....what is not speculative is that (as the example of de Broglie's theory shows) it is not necessarily the case that any account of quantum mechanics in terms of more general physical principles would demand the return to Galilean covariance and a preferred frame;
The intricate biochemical processes underlying avian magnetoreception, the sensory ability of migratory birds to navigate using earths magnetic field, have been narrowed down to spin-dependent recombination of radical-ion pairs to be found in avian species retinal proteins. The avian magnetic field detection is governed by the interplay between magnetic interactions of the radicals unpaired electrons and the radicals recombination dynamics. Critical to this mechanism is the long lifetime of the radical-pair spin coherence, so that the weak geomagnetic field will have a chance to signal its presence. It is here shown that a fundamental quantum phenomenon, the quantum Zeno effect, is at the basis of the radical-ion-pair magnetoreception mechanism. The quantum Zeno effect naturally leads to long spin coherence lifetimes,
Functional medicine practitioners will love this book. Connecting serotonin to an Asian spleen is where East meets West. The serotonin absorption into the brain due to a physical spleen organ dysfunction leading to an obsessive compulsive behavior is a spleen qi deficiency in Asian medicine and Lesser Yins. He weaved both disparate views (Eastern and Western medicine) relevant to each other. Warming digestives such as bai zhu, bai shao, ginger, ginseng, and sha ren may be selected for their effect based on certain serotonin pathways, such as 5-HT1 to 5-HT7 receptors.
He makes the reading easy by using our common conversational English language as his vehicle of the book, making Asian medical terminologies common household, lay words.
Congruence of energies for cerebral photon emissions, quantitative EEG activities and ~5nT changes in proximal geomagnetic field support spin-based hypothesis of consciousness
Non-Locality changes in intercerebral theta band coherence between practitioners and subjects during distant Reiki procedures
I-mon wrote:See now that we're talking about actual quantum physics, it's actually quite interesting!
As has been pointed out, however, the connections between these ideas and people taking axe blows to the sternum, or holding the right hand higher than the left (or is it the other way round?) while not ejaculating in order to develop psychic powers, are not getting any clearer after 8 pages.
In plants, tryptophan conversion of light to exciton energy can participate in the directional orientation of leaves toward sunlight. Since serotonin is structurally similar to tryptophan, in the human brain, neurons could use tryptophan to capture photons and also use serotonin to initiate movement toward the source of light. Hence, we postulate two possible new roles for serotonin: (1) as an antioxidant, in order to counter-balance the oxidative effect of FAs, and (2) to participate in quantum interactions with MTs, in the same way as anesthetics and psychoactive compounds have been recently shown to act.
voidisyinyang wrote:
yes - I have given links - there might be some "background reading" involved to further get details. But some people are not interested in learning - or I mean "learning how to learn." Instead what to be spoonfed information. haha. O.K.
So that last link I gave is on the quantum zeno effect. I will quote Jim Nance to give you an understanding of how this works:
I-mon wrote:I actually am very interested, but so far in my own research I have found the systems/complexity approach to interactions between systems (environmental, socio-cultural, behavioural, cognitive, neurological, endocrine, immunological, histological, genetic and epigenetic, molecular, etc) to be the most accessible and simplest to understand when it comes to all mind-body practices including qigong, without needing to involve quantum mechanics to explain the process or the effects. My very basic understanding of quantum physics (from 1st year physics at university 20 years ago + my own reading on the topic since then) is that it is basically a given that quantum effects are involved in physiological processes (and therefore their psychological/experiential correlates) at the finest levels, but that these effects are important only at those extremely small spatial and temporal scales, and most likely not perceptible to a human nervous system.
The topics are interesting, but I find your posting style impossible to follow - literally, it is not possible for me to follow your arguments, you jump all over the place and it's not at all coherent to me! So I'd suggest that if you do enjoy discussing this stuff with other people, you might try to simplify what you are trying to say, because there's a good chance that no one has a damn clue what you're actually talking about, and it's not necessarily because they are ignorant but because you're not doing a very good job of communicating! No offence meant.
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