I wrote:
Of course remote viewing or the Jahn effects seem impossible based on what
we now know of biology and physics, but we know practically NOTHING about
biology. I can list dozens of ordinary, everyday biological phenomena that
seem utterly incredible, and which we cannot begin to explain. They are as
mysterious as cellular reproduction was before the structure of DNA was
elucidated in 1952.
Let me list one example which happens to resemble remote viewing: coral
reefs all over the Pacific ocean spawn at the same time -- almost all on
the same night. How do they coordinate? That was a big mystery until
recently, but I think it has been established that "the cue is November's
full moon" plus 2 to 6 days. The details remain to be worked out. You
wonder how coral sense the moon, but in any case, these primitive creatures
"communicate" in a sense, or coordinate en mass over thousands of
kilometers, using very subtle clues.
If remote viewing actually exists, it must have a naturalistic explanation.
I suppose it must be a subtle form of communication, or coordinated
thinking similar to the coral coordination. A person in one part of the
world sees an object -- or remembers seeing it -- and somehow that visual
memory reaches another person elsewhere. Perhaps it transmits through a
chain of people. Machines positioned outside the skull can already sense
the electromagnetic radiation from the brain, and make sense of it, so it
not unthinkable that humans and other animals have a similar capability.
But it seems extremely unlikely to me that a person could sense this
radiation from the other side of the earth!
That is a highly implausible hypothesis -- hardly to be taken seriously --
but my point is, if remote viewing is confirmed, eventually some hypothesis
or another will explain it. When the explanation is revealed it will
probably be simple and clear in retrospect, and we will wonder why anyone
ever doubted that remote viewing is real.
That goes for cold fusion and other present-day mysteries, too. Gene
Mallove and other predicted that CF will cause the wrack and ruin of
present day physics. The explanation can only be astounding! Revolutionary!
Perhaps that is true, but it seems more likely to me that once we know the
explanation for CF, it will seem almost banal in retrospect. We will say:
"What was all the fuss about? Of course it works. And it fits right in with
what we already knew." DNA was a wondrous discovery, but it did not disturb
the laws of physics and chemistry.
- Jed
- Remote viewing and coral fertilization Jed Rothwell
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