Psi Multimedia Resources Thread

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page, Adrian Nelson's Waking Cosmos podcast has a long (95 minute) interview with Garret Moddel:
http://www.originsofconsciousness.com/or...-abilities

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page, here's a short presentation by Jeffrey Mishlove entitled "Is Parapsychology a Science?":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK7FAvqgHfE

It's mostly a description of how the field has evolved towards "sciencehood" since the founding of the SPR. I won't spoil the suspense by revealing his conclusion.

The last bit about AI reminded me of a talk by Dean Radin last year, in which he speculated that when computers attained consciousness, they would also develop psychical powers. He also made it pretty clear that the "magic" theme was essentially a marketing strategy for his new book:
http://psiencequest.net/forums/thread-ps...8#pid11698

Judging by Michael Larkin's recap of the questions at the end of the latest Skeptiko podcast, Alex thinks Dean Radin is going to be inviting a lot of magicians into his lab to demonstrate chaos magic:
http://www.skeptiko-forum.com/threads/ph...ost-124202

I'd be extremely surprised if that happened.

Dean Radin interview on Waking Cosmos.

http://www.originsofconsciousness.com/or...ic-science
Also available as MP3 download.

Dean Radin interview on Waking Cosmos.

http://www.originsofconsciousness.com/or...ic-science
Also available as MP3 download.

Towards the end Radin talks about a new device consisting of 32 channels of "quantum noise", in which, rather than the approach used in previous micro-PK work and the Global Consciousness Project, the raw noise is recorded rather than being transformed into a stream of bits. This allows the calculation of autocorrelations for each channel (correlations based on different points in time) and mutual information (correlations between the different channels). The records apparently showed anomalous behaviour at around the time when the result of the 2016 US presidential election was announced.

There's more about this in another interview with Radin on a blog called alpha411 (at about 36 minutes):
http://alpha411.blogspot.com/2018/04/par...erica.html

Radin explains that the motivation behind recording the raw noise (every millisecond), rather than a bitstream derived from it, is to avoid applying XOR processing. XOR processing eliminates any bias in the raw signal, and therefore throws away any effect on the relative proportions of 0s and 1s in the bitstream, making it difficult to work out what is causing any anomalous behaviour that's observed. Radin says here that the p values obtained from the presidential election were stupendous - equating to odds of 226 million to 1 for autocorrelation and 81 thousand to one for mutual information.

Of course, taken at face value, this would represent some of the strongest evidence for an anomalous effect ever obtained. For example, it would be far more significant than single events in the Global Consciousness Project. However, it's not clear from these interviews to what extent (if any) the statistical tests were pre-planned. I'd have thought the obvious thing would be to do a series of pre-planned trials using the new hardware, along the lines of the GCP formal hypothesis series. (Though if these levels of statistical significance were reproduced, only a handful of trials would be required.)

Instead, Radin gives the impression that rather than following up this remarkable result, he has embarked on a big project involving the analysis of sentiment in tweets to try to predict shootings in the USA. I find that very difficult to understand.

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page, here's a talk about post mortem survival given by Charles Tart to Ashby Village, "an East Bay organization that is part of a nationwide trend to help elders live out their lives in their homes," of which he is a member:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuQiWv-a2L0

Tart also has a short intoduction to the talk on his blog.

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The PA (Parapsychological Association) is currently holding its 61st annual conference. Two of the first day's talks were streamed live and have been saved to the PA's Youtube channel as videos. They are:

1) Dean Radin's presidential address:



2) A talk by John Kruth, executive director of the Rhine Research Center (looks like he might have filled in for Charles Tart):



Jacques Vallee is scheduled to speak later today (Saturday, August 4) at 7:10 PM Pacific Time, and his talk is supposed to be live-streamed too. I'm not sure the link to his talk will work, but it's here:

https://mailchi.mp/parapsych/free-upcomi...ons-611237

Here are the abstracts of papers presented this year as well as the conference's program:

https://www.parapsych.org/articles/37/45...apers.aspx

https://www.parapsych.org/articles/37/45...ogram.aspx

Edit: The live-stream link for Vallee's talk failed, but the the video can be viewed here:

I note that Dean Radin says he doesn't like pre-registration because it increases the number of minds involved in the experiment and messes things up.

I note that Dean Radin says he doesn't like pre-registration because it increases the number of minds involved in the experiment and messes things up.

Interesting point. Perhaps the most pure data comes from experiences outside the lab. For example Radin's own remarkable synchronicity, discussed elsewhere, which was not even registered in his own mind as an 'experiment'.