Science questions for psi

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

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

http://opensciences.org/open-questions

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

I think we can say that experience is not stored wholly within an individuals brain at a certain place within spacetime.

Access to Anomalous information (what we discuss on here), otherwise known as Anomalous experiences, suggest that experience is actually shared amongst brains, in exactly the same way as the everyday way we share our waking reality... for example when we share a bag of crisps with somebody else.

These are examples of anomalous information which suggest brains are not perfectly isolated in spacetime..

- Repetitive type apparitions from the distant past when exposed to a related environment (Ghosts)
- Experiences from the past, in children, which the child did not take part in. (Reincarnation)
- Experiences that were distant in space from the location of a subject in cardiac arrest. (Telepathy)
- Experiences that are in the subjects future (precognition).

There are others too, which are mixtures, such as Ouija boards (environmental and sensory similarity of subjects in close proximity where they believe they are not in control), and hypnotism...

All these anomalous phenomena provide glimpses of information which is dislocated in some way within spacetime, which is at odds from the way we currently understand the world, and suggests something else is going on.

It suggests that information (experience) is actually being shared via some underlying mechanism which transcends spacetime. And that it is this underlying method from which our everyday shared spacetime experience is probably brought into existence.

To me it suggests that information is stored very differently from the way we currently understand it, probably in different dimensions, and that spacetime may only be a common interface through which we have learnt to access, manipulate, store, and share information.

However, what seems certain to me is that people do come into possession of dislocated information that our current theories about nature don’t explain, and that brains are not isolated.

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)"

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.

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.