quantum consciousness

[bombus]

Well, I will search around for references, but three I have 'seen' were where volunteers sit in front of a computer which generates dots every second or so which form a line that eventually runs from one side of the screen to the other. Also on the screen is a straight line. If the computer generates a +1 the line being drawn rises and if it generates -1 the line falls. The straight line gives a 'baseline' so if the computer generates an equal number of +1s and -1s the drawn line will follow the baseline. Volunteers use their willpower to 'make' the line go up (or down). The study concluded that the rate at which volunteers were able to influence the line could not be accounted for by chance alone.

 

Another one (which actually made the national news) involved pets running to the door to wait at the exact moment when their owners decided to come home from destinations miles away. This was randomised and, well, just couldn't be explained by conventional science.

 

Most recently (again it made the news) was an experiment where someone had to guess who out of four people was phoning them before they picked up the phone. They got it right way over what chance would predict.

 

These studies were not done by cranks, but by established British Universities. I'd love to find the references myself. If I can find them I'll post them up.

[ashennell]

Well the conclusion I would draw from these three experiments is that dogs have far greater psychic powers than humans. Their task seems far harder than the other two.

[DV8 2XL]

Unfortunately even if the existence of psychic powers were proved that would not in and of itself say anything useful on the subject of QC or modelling intelligence on a machine.

 

Just because a number of writers in the field of parapsychology have invoked QC to explain these things, it does not hold that the converse is necessarily true.