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    He may have unraveled the secret of synchronicity. Will science prove him right?|306|

    I've outlined the proposed mechanism in a few recent articles, especially these two: http://thenightshirt.com/?p=3441, http://thenightshirt.com/?p=3519 . In 2010, Seth Lloyd and colleagues proposed a method of time travel using quantum teleportation and post-selection, and then partly tested...
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    It doesn't matter what you think of NASA or the possibility of moon bases, UFOs, etc. What makes you conclude that, because Ingo Swann says he remote viewed moon bases, he was accurate (let alone truthful), or that his interpretation of what he might have seen was correct? Neither you nor I have...
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    He may have unraveled the secret of synchronicity. Will science prove him right?|306|

    I've written a lot on Dick recently, in this context -- If you're a fan, you might also like: http://thenightshirt.com/?p=3329 and http://thenightshirt.com/?p=3364 How did Persinger control for feedback in his telepathy experiments?
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    Russell Targ is of the opinion that Ingo Swann's book Penetration, where he describes his moon RV, was a fiction. Tangentially related to your suggestion for a pre-crime-type system, I do think precognitive technology will be possible, and describe some applications and limits here...
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    He may have unraveled the secret of synchronicity. Will science prove him right?|306|

    I would suggest instead that there's zero evidence that moon bases etc. that are seen in RV sessions are accurate at all -- i.e., not event telepathy but just "noise" or wishful thinking. Unless we have actual evidence of veridicality, there's no way to say it is psi. Or, the RV-ers could be...
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    He may have unraveled the secret of synchronicity. Will science prove him right?|306|

    Thanks. And I totally agree with you. It's that "constructive" aspect that makes RV(/precog) so very much like memory. The mix of accurate details and schematic, idiosyncratic distortion is what researchers should focus on.
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    He may have unraveled the secret of synchronicity. Will science prove him right?|306|

    No time to address most of your comment (or most of the new comments, unfortunately) due to new baby :-) ... but just briefly, about the brief time window of presentiment experiments: Good point, although this applies to the presentiment findings specifically, versus precognitive remote viewing...
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    He may have unraveled the secret of synchronicity. Will science prove him right?|306|

    Hi Alex. I'm not proposing "super psi" and my model does not involve any field of consciousness. In fact it's precisely to avoid "fields" and nonlocality explanations, which cannot explain how we find/acquire specific pieces of information amid all possible information. Memory--or an associative...
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    He may have unraveled the secret of synchronicity. Will science prove him right?|306|

    I don't know enough details about the Martindale case, but some time-slip cases can be explained as precognition of learning about a historical episode, experienced as a hallucination. I'm not saying this is the only or necessarily the best explanation, but I'm asking people to consider it, to...
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    He may have unraveled the secret of synchronicity. Will science prove him right?|306|

    Common experience of a shared reality doesn't necessarily mean the reality really is shared. Sex, as Slavoj Zizek cynically insists, is masturbation with a partner, etc., and one of the masterful illusions of the brain is to coordinate social experiences with others; the temporal shenanigans...
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    He may have unraveled the secret of synchronicity. Will science prove him right?|306|

    I contrast my ideas with Sheldrake's MR in that I don't want to explain psi using "fields" or "resonance." I'm not persuaded there is actual evidence for fields--morphic, Akashic, consciousness, etc.--and that this is really a metaphor that people are reifying right and left, because it is hard...
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    He may have unraveled the secret of synchronicity. Will science prove him right?|306|

    I loved Bergson when I read him years ago, and his ideas have always stood at the back of my mind ... but that was before I delved into the psi stuff. I need to go back and re-read some of his work through that lens.
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    He may have unraveled the secret of synchronicity. Will science prove him right?|306|

    The idea of two arrows of causation is becoming increasingly well established in QM circles, and it is the basis of my proposed mechanism. I should offer the disclaimer that I'm less committed to the particular mechanism I proposed (backward influence in neuronal microstructures via...
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    He may have unraveled the secret of synchronicity. Will science prove him right?|306|

    If you read Vallee's journals, he does record many other more mundane synchronicities and precognitive experiences. (His Forbidden Science volume 2 is a goldmine of fascinating experiences and history for anyone interested in the paranormal and American culture in the 1970s in general.) In my...
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    He may have unraveled the secret of synchronicity. Will science prove him right?|306|

    Thanks, Jeroen, Regarding the future being probabilistic -- yes, that seems persuasive to me. That Bengston example is great -- I hadn't thought of bliss/enjoyment as a possible direct mechanism of PK, but what you're suggesting does resonate strongly with other retrocausal models like...
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    He may have unraveled the secret of synchronicity. Will science prove him right?|306|

    Max, we're simply talking past each other here. I'm only talking about veridical information gained in an NDE or OBE state, not how to explain the state itself or what causes it. All I'm suggesting is that, whatever is happening physically, whatever the mechanism, the experiences reported...
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    He may have unraveled the secret of synchronicity. Will science prove him right?|306|

    Hi Vortex. My opinion is ... I'm afraid to look at it. :-) Well, not afraid, but I admit I cannot at this point assimilate it confidently in my model. My best guess is that PK does involve the retrocausal circuits I'm describing. My preliminary thoughts can be found here, and lately I'm...
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    He may have unraveled the secret of synchronicity. Will science prove him right?|306|

    Hi Max, My model can explain OBEs and NDEs. I'm not saying it DOES explain them, but it is just as adequate an explanation: The experience, as in RV, might be not of events distant in space, etc., but of the future moment when the veridicality of what was seen was confirmed. That's always...
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    He may have unraveled the secret of synchronicity. Will science prove him right?|306|

    This is indeed an important question. Although military RV-ers often weren't given explicit feedback, it was often forthcoming indirectly. Paul Smith in his memoir records some cases where the accuracy of his remote viewings was confirmed in some news story etc. Like I said, there ARE a few RV...
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    He may have unraveled the secret of synchronicity. Will science prove him right?|306|

    Hi Alan, The "index" you mention is precisely the key issue, I think. On the surface, psi looks like access to an omniscient intelligence or a kind of Akashic record. A double-blinded remote viewing feat (for example) requires finding information that the RV-er doesn't even know he wants to...
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