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Do you think we have the ability to transfer thought?

2007-07-11 03:07:02 · 14 answers · asked by firelight 5 in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

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It is possible, and there are ways to do it. I've studied "remote viewing" and the "Stanford Research Institute studies" for some time now, and while the method takes some work, and some discipline, with practice you can get results. And at least early on, the research was done in the classical double-blind manner.

Which leads me to Randi. -_- There is no way to put this politely. He's a paid-for naysayer. He puts his agenda *way* the hell ahead of any sense of scientific inquiry. And his agenda boils down to "Leave it to the paid-for professionals, the only correct Science is big, corporate published science."

Consider: The naysayer crowd will say the CIA/SRI studies regarding Remote Viewing have been discredited. By? The one highly public instance where Uri Geller tried and failed to make the protocol work. Never mind that Geller wasn't allowed at the time to actually *do* the experiment according to its own rules.

The point is, we have nearly a decade of research and millions of dollars spent...."discredited" by *ONE* failure. This would be like having the Piltdown Man Hoax discredit the *ENTIRE* Theory of Natural Selection. One failed experiment does *not* a discrediting make....unless you are an Official Paid-For Skeptic. By that standard, *light bulbs* should not work, because Edison failed not just once, but *hundreds* of times before he got it right. By that standard, airplanes *should not* fly because of all of the accumulated failures that *led to* the Wright brothers.

Having said all that. -_- I do understand that getting reliable evidence for ESP or ESP-like behavior in a controlled, double-blind manner is not the easiest thing in the world.

At least it isn't as far as human beings are concerned.

"Migratory birds" do this all the time, however. It's called having a bio-magnetic area of the brain that *knows which way is north*, a "compass lobe" if you will. Cetaceans, your dolphins and whales, they do this all the time too, they have literally evolved their ability to produce sound underwater to the point that their echolocation literally does *many* of the things that "telepathy" does in science fiction:

--stunning prey (fish, with loud sound pulses),
--direct communication over long distances (courtesy of sound being conducted from skull to ocean water to skull),
--and being able to "see" or navigate without seeing.

And don't get me started on the "crest neurons of sharks", and how their "bio-electric sense" enables them to see their prey *through and under sand*.

Point is, ESP-like behavoir is *all over the place* out in nature. It's there, it's established fact, we have logical explanations for it, evidence and everything.

So....it could well be that the old Soviet research on the matter is correct. It could well be that human beings have a "compass lobe" too and that the only thing holding us back is the earth's magnetic field strength.

But....this is the kind of thing that is going to need a fair and unbiased inquiry, one that isn't afraid to look at the bio-electric side of brain chemistry, and to look at consciousness as an electromagnetic phenomena.

Meaning....you as reasearcher will have to *risk*, when you see thought or consciousness as *energy* and not just brute chemistry, you will have to risk the possibility of finding a hypothesis of "soul".

And *that* is where the knee-jerk-isms of Randi and company come from, really. They don't want to throw the religious freaks a *bone* on the issue. ^_^

I hope this helps....thanks for your time!

2007-07-11 06:44:31 · answer #1 · answered by Bradley P 7 · 1 0

If it was possible to transfer thought then how could it
be proved that it was a thought which was transferred
and not some other projection through a physical
medium. In other words, people might have conversations
which provoke the conception of ideas and understanding,
but the people might be better justified in considering the
transfer as a vibration of particles bringing the sensation
of audio reception rather than a telekinetic phenomena(
or implanting thoughts within each other's minds). Sound
waves sound more proper to me than thought waves
think to me.

2007-07-11 03:46:26 · answer #2 · answered by active open programming 6 · 1 0

Yes I do. I have had dreams telling me about thoughts and feelings of friends and family. I believe it is possible in a more direct way also. How receptive a person is, depends on how well developed their sense in this way. Just like when you think of someone and then they call and other common occurrances like that. How much info transferred may depend on how open a person is to receiving it...

2007-07-11 03:16:20 · answer #3 · answered by Butterfly Kisses ♥ 6 · 1 0

Since brain activity is basically electrical impulses, i think that the impulses created by thinking could one day (very far future) be interpreted by some sort of machine that is capable of deciphering those signals. But i don't think that sort of thing will be possible between 2 people without the help of that machine, in which case you might as well talk out loud.

2007-07-11 03:18:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Yes. We are always producing and projecting vibrations that every one picks up on, some people just don't listen. A lot of these vibes are what our intuitions are based on. Some people also have no understanding of what is capable from the human mind, and its electrode mechanisms that are constantly send and receiving light signatures from the universe and its life on earth. I believe that this is the bases of telepathic s

2007-07-11 07:17:58 · answer #5 · answered by Lee light 2 · 2 0

Yes! more easily when those transferring are of like mind, or in a relaxed open state.....

I find quite a pure free flow of this phenomenon with close friends and family in particular.

2007-07-11 05:37:26 · answer #6 · answered by someone 5 · 4 0

Yes

2007-07-11 03:13:03 · answer #7 · answered by Jack P 7 · 0 0

Yup, it's like the WolrdWideWeb of the Mind, aka collective consciousness or collective conscience...

Good luck!

2007-07-11 03:28:24 · answer #8 · answered by Alex 5 · 2 0

Or does our creator put the thoughts in our minds at the same time?

2007-07-11 03:13:13 · answer #9 · answered by ? 7 · 0 1

we do have the faculties to transfer thought.
- vocal
- written
and signed language

2007-07-11 03:13:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

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