Science questions for psi

http://opensciences.org/open-questions

Can we talk about these?  This website should be familiar to many here.

 
Are psychic phenomena illusory?
Are memories stored as traces in brains?

Interesting, Max. Have you now perhaps altered the dynamic behind your original theory (endogenous fields) ?

"Experiences that were distant in space from the location of a subject in cardiac arrest. (Telepathy)"

nope... same ideas as before... experience probably comes about through non-classical coherence of patterns. Another way of saying that is that where patterns match, they can add-up in a way that transcends spacetime.

Thanks for the well-considered responses.

Rupert Sheldrake has proposed that memories are better understood in terms of morphic resonance, a process whereby patterns of activity in the past resonate with patterns in the present on the basis of similarity, with this resonance passing across or through space and time from the past to the present. He has discussed this hypothesis in detail in his book The Presence of the Past and it is summarised in his book Science Set Free/The Science Delusion in Chapter 7.

http://opensciences.org/open-questions/a...-in-brains

The terms coherence and resonance both refer to waves and interference patterns at the physical level.  I think it possible to see the wave function (or what it represents) as substantial and acting as an underlying layer of causal activity.  

At the level of information analysis, matching patterns can be measured as to their mutual information.

nope... same ideas as before... experience probably comes about through non-classical coherence of patterns. Another way of saying that is that where patterns match, they can add-up in a way that transcends spacetime.

Okay, it's not something that matters to me, I was just confused by the word telepathy you used.