--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <LEnglish5@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" <richardhughes103@> > wrote: [...] > > > But why would he stop doing the experiments, if there is anything > > > to it at all it's the most amazing breakthrough in scientific > > > undertsnding ever! I'm serious. The only abstract I could find > > > in the Journal of Neuroscience claims to have found evidence of > > > a field effect, if true it's massive. > > > > Because the ceiling effect made the resutls unpredictable/not- > replicable? > > They wouldn't be non-replicable and that's the only thing > that would lift the research out of obscurity. If nothing > else, James Randi would give them a million bucks.
OK, let me puut it another way: the results haven't been replicated lately, or so I surmise. The reason for that is...? And no, you have no idea WHAT they haven't been replicated: the most you can do is speculate. > > > > > I suspect faulty controls and would like to see it replicated a > few > > > hundred times by independents. But even if it turns out to be true > > > what does it mean for the stock market? Does increased coherence > > > make you more moral and less likely to gamble away peoples > savings? > > > I think that one thing FFL has proved is that you don't get any > > > kind of consensus on anything between people who have been doing > TM > > > for years, so what can you predict for society if we were all > > > doing it? > > > > > > > > > Shrug. There's suggestive evidence that extreme alpha coherence in > the brain > > might be due to quantum interaction effects. Vaj's favorite > Buddhist meditation > > research is touted by Quantum Mind fans like Hamerhoff as evidence > of > > the 40Mhz EEG coherence due to QM effects in the brain that > Hamerhoff has > > been making for many years. > > > > Whatever. > > It MAY be due to quantum interaction, that in itself is big news. > But affecting people at a distance? Very big news indeed. > If it IS QM effects at body temperature at macro-distances within the brain, what possible reason would have to assume that it wouldn't show action at larger distances? What theoretical difference is there between 5 inches and 5,000 miles in this context? > I find any nonchalance about breakthroughs like this puzzling. > You do realise this is highly important and paradigm shifting, > if true? Of course you do. > Quite so. Lawson
