tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-161588652024-03-13T00:29:44.628-07:00Entangled MindsDean Radin's blogDean Radinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16131263574182645280noreply@blogger.comBlogger247125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-19573963285800783112023-11-17T08:20:00.000-08:002023-11-17T08:23:02.063-08:00Resuscitating this blog<p> After receiving a note from Blogger that this blog was going to disappear soon, so I've resuscitated it for the time being. </p><p>I'm working on a new book and at some point may use this blog to discuss it.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNXV3KwrFNMS_XLZyq1qxls9I8Ko2j3zu7fJNhmwt8lcJKK6WZh6fqU6sFPvPbIczYxVgKOJGxkunaQYeK7ndt4tYLYaCP24Jgr8V3qtLIFY8AibaG-yVpB4m-UaiNWsziW75ByxE0bLWP3dEQDWBSSWTggDagGh-NDcJ9t4gt4_SzNwQaDKDH/s4096/AdobeStock_572618665.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4096" data-original-width="4096" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNXV3KwrFNMS_XLZyq1qxls9I8Ko2j3zu7fJNhmwt8lcJKK6WZh6fqU6sFPvPbIczYxVgKOJGxkunaQYeK7ndt4tYLYaCP24Jgr8V3qtLIFY8AibaG-yVpB4m-UaiNWsziW75ByxE0bLWP3dEQDWBSSWTggDagGh-NDcJ9t4gt4_SzNwQaDKDH/s320/AdobeStock_572618665.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Dean Radinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10276520036432601306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-73208250043930745812016-07-07T12:49:00.000-07:002016-07-07T13:03:59.906-07:00Retiring this blog, sort ofI have pretty much retired this blog and have switched to posting shorter notes to Facebook and Twitter.<br />
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Writing a blog was occasionally fun but ultimately not worth the time or effort given the limited number of followers. While this blog had received over 700,000 page views, after working full time on writing journal articles, books, and grant proposals, and conducting experiments, and being editor of a journal, and giving 20 to 50 presentations and interviews a year, I don't have much energy left to write a blog as well.<br />
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This site will remain online for historical purposes, but look for my posts on various social media for ongoing updates. And look for my latest book, which I'm working on now, in Spring of 2018.Dean Radinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10276520036432601306noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-2041738708186777302014-07-06T12:19:00.000-07:002014-07-06T12:19:15.194-07:00Frontiers of Consciousness meeting at the National Academy of Sciences<div class="separator tr_bq" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In March 2014, I helped to design and participated in a two day workshop called <span style="color: #002060;">the </span><i style="color: #002060;">Frontiers of
Consciousness</i><span style="color: #002060;">, held at the Beckman Center at the University of California, Irvine, the West Coast center for the US National Academy of Sciences. The meeting is described in a pdf <a href="http://www.deanradin.com/FOC2014/FOCSummary.pdf" target="_blank">in this link</a>. </span><span style="color: #002060;">From that report (lightly edited):</span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060;">Innumerable anecdotal reports found in all cultures since the dawn of history suggest that the mind occasionally has access to information that transcends the ordinary senses. Examples of these "extended mind" (EM) phenomena include perceiving future events or spontaneously knowing a distant person’s emotions or intentions. Investigations of such experiences began with the very origins of scientific inquiry, and the experiences themselves continue to be reported today by individuals at all levels of educational achievement. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #002060;">Notable scientific pioneers including Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton, and William James, to contemporary Nobel Laureates and prominent scientists across a variety of disciplines, have openly expressed interest in EM effects. Government programs have periodically supported applied research programs in EM, including in the United States the Department of Defense (DoD), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Government programs in Russia, Japan, India and China have also funded research into EM-related phenomena.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #002060;">Despite persistent reports of such experiences, as well as a growing body of experimental evidence, the notion that the mind might have extended properties is considered by some to be scientifically implausible. EM seems to violate core assumptions of the neurosciences as well as physical laws about the structure of space and time. The apparent violation of existing theories has led many to assume that EM experiences are best explained as coincidence, illusion or delusion.</span><span style="color: #002060;"><br /></span><span style="color: #002060;"></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #002060;">However, as previous concepts about the nature of space, time and causality shifted with the development of general relativity and quantum mechanics, ideas about the properties and capacities of consciousness have also begun to shift. These shifts are now accelerating because of rising evidence that basic characteristics of living systems (e.g., magnetoreception and photosynthesis) are mediated by quantum effects. This radically challenges previous assumptions about the plausibility of EM.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #002060;">While theoretical models remain at earliest stages of development, systematic empirical study of EM phenomena has been underway for over 130 years. Given the largely pre-theoretical nature of this work and the challenges they pose, the rate of progress has been slow. Nevertheless, a steady stream of research supporting the reality of various EM effects continues to accumulate, and research methods today have advanced far beyond the techniques commonly employed a few decades ago. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #002060;">Experiments now use contemporary neuroimaging and psychophysiological protocols, optical physics, automated blinding and randomization of controls, and quantitative methods for assessing effect sizes and replication rates. Experimental results using the latest tools and techniques continue to show intriguing effects.</span></blockquote>
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Dean Radinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16131263574182645280noreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-58617440289526522412014-06-30T15:42:00.002-07:002014-06-30T15:42:44.099-07:00Sometimes it takes a comedian to state the obviousFrom <a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Oliver_%28comedian%29" target="_blank">Wikiquote</a> (affiliated with Wikipedia, but a bit more difficult to seriously distort).<br />
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By comedian John Oliver:<br />
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"The world's become so horrifying now. It's too easy to become cynical
about things and that's not fair and it doesn't work. And in fact, there
is hope for the world. And it is in the form of Wikipedia. Now
Wikipedia will save us all.<br />
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I found this out when recently a friend of
mine emailed me and he said that someone had created a Wikipedia entry
about me. I didn't realize this was true, so I looked it up. And like
most Wikipedia entries, it came with some flamboyant surprises, not
least amongst them my name. Because in it it said my name was John Cornelius
Oliver. Now my middle name is not Cornelius because I did not die in
1752. But obviously, I wanted to be. Cornelius is an incredible name.<br />
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And that's when it hit me --the way the world is now, fiction has become
more attractive than fact. That is why Wikipedia is such a vital
resource. It's a way of us completely rewriting our history to give our
children and our children's children a much better history to grow up
with. We seem to have no intention of providing them with a future.
Let's at least give them a past. It is in a very real sense the least we
can do."<br />
<br />Dean Radinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16131263574182645280noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-51569134355584441362014-05-09T10:06:00.000-07:002014-05-09T10:06:50.981-07:00Is the mind/body a machine?From <a href="http://iai.tv/video/beyond-the-machine">iai tv</a>
A discussion with Rupert Sheldrake, Colin Blakemore, and Joanna Kavenna.
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Dean Radinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16131263574182645280noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-43245789403070798152014-04-18T15:23:00.000-07:002014-04-18T15:23:11.111-07:00Levitation in Paris<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I was in Paris the beginning of April, giving a talk at the Sorbonne for the launch of the French translation of my book, <i><a href="http://supernormalbook.com/" target="_blank">Supernormal</a></i>. While walking about and enjoying the city on the way to the Arc De Triomphe, I passed a levitating man. This was a nice synchronicity given the topic of my book, which just won the 2014 Silver <a href="http://www.nautilusbookawards.com/" target="_blank">Naulitus Book Award</a>. This is a major book award "<span style="background-color: white;">for exceptional literary contributions to spiritual growth, conscious living, high-level wellness, green values, responsible leadership and positive social change as well as to the worlds of art, creativity and inspirational reading for children, teens and young adults</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, san-serif;">."</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">How is the man levitating? It's an impressive trick, even when you know how it works.</span><br />
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<br />Dean Radinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16131263574182645280noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-82017759693941306012014-04-14T10:53:00.001-07:002014-08-14T16:58:55.550-07:00Feeling the future meta-analysis<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Before Cornell University psychologist Daryl Bem published an article on precognition in the prominent <i>Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, </i>it had already (and ironically given the topic) evoked a response from the status quo. The <i>New York Times</i> was kind enough to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/science/06esp.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0" target="_blank">prepare us to be outraged</a>.<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 41.58720016479492px;"> It was called "</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 22.0049991607666px;">craziness, pure craziness" by life-long critic Ray Hyman. Within days the news media was announcing that it was all just </span><a href="http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2011/01/06/5779186-psychic-proof-skeptics-strike-back" style="line-height: 22.0049991607666px;" target="_blank">a big mistake</a><span style="line-height: 22.0049991607666px;">. I wrote about the ensuing brouhaha </span><a href="http://deanradin.blogspot.com/2010/12/my-comments-on-alcocks-comments-on-bems.html" style="line-height: 22.0049991607666px;" target="_blank">in this blog</a><span style="line-height: 22.0049991607666px;">. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 22.0049991607666px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">But the bottom line in science, and the key factor that trumps hysterical criticism, is whether the claimed effect can be repeated by independent investigators. If it can't then perhaps the original claim was mistaken or idiosyncratic. If it can, then the critics need to rethink their position.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 22.0049991607666px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now we have an answer to the question about replication. An article has been submitted to the <i>Journal of Social and Personality Psychology</i> and is <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2423692" target="_blank">available here</a>. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.0049991607666px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The key phrase in the abstract reads:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 22.0049991607666px;">"The paper reports a meta-analysis </span><span style="line-height: 22.0049991607666px;">of 90 experiments from 33 laboratories in 14 different countries which yielded an overall </span><span style="line-height: 22.0049991607666px;">positive effect in excess of 6 sigma with an effect size (Hedges’ g) of 0.09, combined z = 6.33, p = </span><span style="line-height: 22.0049991607666px;">1.2 × 10e-10. A Bayesian analysis yielded a Bayes Factor of 7.4 × 10e9, greatly exceeding the criterion </span><span style="line-height: 22.0049991607666px;">value of 100 for “decisive evidence” in favor of the experimental hypothesis."</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="line-height: 22.0049991607666px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In layman terms this means that according to the same standards used to evaluate evidence throughout the psychological sciences that implicit precognition is a genuine effect. This outcome, combined with a <a href="http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00390/abstract" target="_blank">meta-analysis of presentiment effects</a>, provides additional evidence indicating that what bothers critics is their <i>belief </i>about how Nature should behave, rather than how it actually does. </span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22.0049991607666px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">We do not need precognition to predict that the new meta-analysis will not influence the critics' beliefs. Their beliefs, like those of most people, rest upon a naive realist (i.e., common sense) view of nature. </span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22.0049991607666px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">While common sense is good enough for most basic activities of daily life (not including an understanding of how television, smartphones, GPSs, and computers work), it is not sufficient to account for the larger reality revealed by science. Nor is it capable of perceiving the far stranger and vaster realities that patiently wait for us far beyond the reach of today's science.</span></span><br />
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Update April 25, 2014. As I predicted, this meta-analysis shows no signs of influencing critics' beliefs. Instead, new objections are invented. The latest is that we shouldn't believe this analysis because Bem was one of the authors and he has a vested interest in the outcome. But based on that logic we are also justified in ignoring any meta-analysis published by avowed skeptics because they have a vested interest in their outcomes. Do vested interests pro or con influence these analyses? Undoubtedly they do. So is it even possible to craft a truly neutral assessment? Probably, but it would take some effort because the published reports would have to be carefully scrubbed clean so the analysts wouldn't know what the <i>topic </i>of their analysis is all about. And somehow other analysts would need to thoroughly search all published and unpublished sources to find every relevant study ever conducted.<br />
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I haven't heard of anyone ever getting funding for this type of uber-neutral analysis, but if you do know a source of funding that might be interested in supporting such an effort, please let me know.<br />
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Update August 14, 2014. And now some critics are claiming that the most sophisticated usage of meta-analysis itself is flawed, throwing into doubt everything published in psychology, biology, medicine, ecology, and all other disciplines that rely on meta-analysis for assessing replication of small effects. This is a "move the goal-post" strategy: When evidence is not to your liking, change the rules so it's no longer offensive. Now the only acceptable evidence is based on experimental designs that are publicly preregistered. Why any critic thinks that will solve the problem is beyond me. <br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 22.0049991607666px;"><br /></span>Dean Radinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16131263574182645280noreply@blogger.com182tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-50760434231937776682014-04-10T15:22:00.000-07:002014-05-07T12:57:53.880-07:00No one pays any attention<span style="font-size: large;">Do scientists pay attention to psi research? Some skeptics would have you believe that this topic is so far from the mainstream that no one takes it seriously. What do article impact metrics indicate?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For the article <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00390">Predictive physiological anticipation preceding seemingly unpredictable stimuli: A meta-analysis</a>, which examines experiments studying what I've called "presentiment," <a href="http://www.altmetric.com/" target="_blank">Altmetric</a> reports that this is "one of the highest ever scores" in the journal <i>Frontiers in Psychology</i> (ranked #3 of 1,714 articles). The <a href="http://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/1206/how-many-people-read-an-individual-journal-article" target="_blank">average v</a>iew of a journal article is typically a few hundred, and that's for a very popular paper. This paper has 47,765 views so far. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For the article <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00146">Predicting the unpredictable: Critical analysis and practical implications of predictive anticipatory activity</a>, Altmetric reports that this article "is amongst the highest ever scored" in <i>Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, </i>with 10,584 views.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For the article <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00017">A call for an open, informed study of all aspects of consciousness</a>, Almetric reports that this article is "one of the highest ever scores" in <i>Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, </i>with 19,524 views.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For the article <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00834">Electrocortical activity associated with subjective communication with the deceased</a>, Almetric reports that this "is amongst the highest ever scored" in <i>Frontiers in Psychology</i>, with 6,121 views.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In other words, compared to most journal articles on mainstream (meaning, conventional) topics, these articles are reaching into the rarefied domain of <i>extreme </i>scientific impact -- hundreds of times more interest than the typical article.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've found a similar response every time I've given a talk to an academic or technical audience. While opinions differ on how to interpret psi data and vigorous debates are common, there is no question that scientists and scholars are <i>interested</i>. And isn't that what a healthy science is all about -- the excitement of exploring the frontiers of knowledge?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As Gandhi famously said, "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." Based on interest and impact metrics, it appears that if this were a political battle (which it basically is -- the politics of ideas), as far as the actual mainstream is concerned (mainstream in terms of numbers; not that small minority that </span><span style="font-size: large;">desperately</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">holds onto the status quo), I'd estimate that we're somewhere between fighting and winning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Update: May 7, 2014. For the sake of curiosity, I wanted to see how my own scientific impact metric would fare against that of the average scientist. </span><span style="font-size: large;">According to a study by the </span><a href="http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/the-handbook/chapter-3-key-measures-of-academic-influence/" style="font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">London School of Economics and Political Science</a><span style="font-size: large;"> the average tenured professor from the disciplines of law to economics have </span><span style="font-size: large;">(Hirsch)</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">h-indexes ranging from 2.83 to 7.60, respectively. The average h-index varies widely by discipline, but <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-index" target="_blank">Hirsch estimated</a> (based on physicists) that after 20 years a "successful" scientist will have an h-index of 20, where success in this context is equivalent to a full professorship in physics at a major research university. </span><span style="font-size: large;">According to </span><a href="http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=W_sDKJQAAAAJ" style="font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">Google Scholar</a><span style="font-size: large;">, my h-index is 22. </span>Dean Radinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16131263574182645280noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-54214357862450847672014-04-04T15:01:00.001-07:002014-04-05T11:50:21.100-07:00Now it becomes clearAs I've <a href="http://deanradin.blogspot.com/2014/02/eileen-garrett-in-wikipedia.html" target="_blank">previously mentioned</a>, Wikipedia <a href="http://deanradin.blogspot.com/2007/04/trouble-with-wiki.html" target="_blank">has a problem</a> with topics that fall outside a tightly constrained, naive view of reality. That there are different opinions about such topics as homeopathy, parapsychology, or energy medicine, is not surprising. But it is <a href="http://deanradin.blogspot.com/2010/06/maybe-check-is-in-mail.html" target="_blank">disappointing</a> (and on the verge of abetting libel when it comes to biographies of living persons) when an otherwise useful encyclopedia maintains a policy of presenting such topics with a systematic negative bias.<br />
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Attempts to edit these articles to provide more balance are summarily ignored, and even neutral, well-intentioned editors have been banned. Articles with citations only from unreliable, uninformed, or cynical sources might be useful for promoting favored ideologies, but only in an Orwellian world could such an encyclopedia be considered anything but a work of fiction. Indeed, this very blog was labeled an "unreliable source" when I've simply pointed out an easily demonstrable <a href="http://deanradin.blogspot.com/2014/02/eileen-garrett-in-wikipedia.html" target="_blank">mathematical fact</a>.<br />
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I used to wonder why those in charge of Wikipedia would allow such biases to persist. I imagined that they were simply uninformed at how a small group of enthusiastic fact-deniers had highjacked the system. But now something has happened that illuminates the problem.<br />
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On Change.org, the <a href="https://energypsych.site-ym.com/" target="_blank">Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology</a> posted a <a href="http://www.change.org/petitions/jimmy-wales-founder-of-wikipedia-create-and-enforce-new-policies-that-allow-for-true-scientific-discourse-about-holistic-approaches-to-healing/responses/11054" target="_blank">petition</a> to ask Jimmy Wales, one of the founders of Wikipedia, to "create and enforce new policies that allow for true scientific discourse about holistic approaches to healing." The ACEP posted this position because publications relevant to their interests have faced the same sort of systematic negative bias as articles on psi research. <a href="http://www.change.org/petitions/jimmy-wales-founder-of-wikipedia-create-and-enforce-new-policies-that-allow-for-true-scientific-discourse-about-holistic-approaches-to-healing/responses/11054" target="_blank">The response by Wales</a> was as follows:<br />
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No, you have to be kidding me. Every single person who signed this
petition needs to go back to check their premises and think harder about
what it means to be honest, factual, truthful. Wikipedia's policies around this kind of thing are exactly spot-on
and correct. If you can get your work published in respectable
scientific journals - that is to say, if you can produce evidence
through replicable scientific experiments, then Wikipedia will cover it
appropriately. What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse". It isn't.</blockquote>
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Besides the snarky insult, this response reveals more than ignorance. It indicates that Wales has allowed his amygdala to trump his frontal lobes. He might benefit from re-reading his own guidelines on the "Five Pillars" of Wikipedia, especially the pillar recommending that articles are to be written <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars" target="_blank">from a neutral point of view</a>.<br />
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<a href="https://energypsych.site-ym.com/" target="_blank">ACEP</a> provides an <a href="https://energypsych.site-ym.com/?Research_Landing" target="_blank">evidence page</a> that shows there already <i>is</i> "work published in respectable scientific journals." Yes, energy psychology techniques seem strange, but so what? There are all sorts of things that are not well understood yet, but are nevertheless backed by solid empirical evidence (like psi). And in this particular case, the methods are not merely empirically intriguing, they're also clinical <i>useful</i>.<br />
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And so now it becomes clear why Wikipedia has become a bastion of reactionary lore. It assumes a quaint form of reality that would have been appropriate to promote in the 17th century, but that view is neither appropriate nor useful nor correct in the 21st century. As Tolstoy <a href="http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/weird/skepquot.html" target="_blank">once said</a>:<br />
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I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.</blockquote>
Dean Radinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16131263574182645280noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-66569277713574910142014-03-13T11:57:00.003-07:002014-03-14T11:56:59.259-07:00Psychophysical interactions with a double-slit interference pattern <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dean Radin,</span><sup style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: blue;"> </span></sup><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Leena Michel,</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">James Johnston,</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> and </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Arnaud Delorme (2013). </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Psychophysical interactions with a double-slit interference pattern. </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Physics Essays</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Volume 26: p. 553-566</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">This is the third publication describing our ongoing research program on mind-matter interactions. This line of research focuses on experimentally testing John von Neumann's (and others) interpretation of the quantum measurement problem (QMP). The <a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-measurement/" target="_blank">Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy</a> has a good description of the QMP. So far we've conducted 15 experiments and have reported the results of 10 of them. Overall the evidence is consistent with von Neumann's proposal that consciousness is involved in the behavior of quantum systems. Note that consistency doesn't necessarily mean that von Neumann's approach is the only valid interpretation.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://physicsessays.org/browse-journal-2/product/34-10-pdf-dean-radin-leena-michel-james-johnston-and-arnaud-delorme-psychophysical-interactions-with-a-double-slit-interference-pattern.html" target="_blank">Abstract</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Previously reported experiments suggested that interference patterns generated by a
double-slit optical system were perturbed by a psychophysical (i.e.,
mind–matter) interaction. Three new experiments were conducted to
further investigate this phenomenon. The first study consisted of 50
half-hour test sessions where participants concentrated their
attention-toward or –away from a double-slit system located 3 meters away. The
spectral magnitude and phase associated with the double-slit component
of the interference pattern were compared between the two attention
conditions, and the combined results provided evidence for an
interaction. One hundred control sessions using the same equipment, protocol and
analysis, but without participants present, showed no effect.
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<span style="font-size: large;">A Fraunhofer diffraction model was used to explore various
interpretations of this outcome. This analysis suggested that the
distribution of light between the two slits and the horizontal stability
of the laser beam were the principle components of the optical system
that were perturbed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The second experiment used a duplicate double-slit
system and similar test protocol, but it was conducted over the Internet
by streaming data to participants’ web browsers. Some 685 people from
six continents contributed 2,089 experimental sessions. Results were [significantly] similar to those observed in the first experiment, but smaller in
magnitude.
Data from 2,303 control sessions, conducted automatically every 2 hours
using the same equipment but without observers showed no effect.
Distance between participants and the optical system, ranging from 1 km
to 18,000 km, showed no correlation with experimental effect size. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The
third experiment used a newly designed double-slit system, a revised
test protocol, and a simpler method of statistical analysis. Twenty
sessions contributed by 10 participants successfully replicated the
interaction effect observed in the first two studies.
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><a href="http://www.deanradin.com/FOC2014/Radin_Physics_Essays-2013.pdf" target="_blank">The article may be downloaded by clicking here</a>.<br />
<br />Dean Radinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16131263574182645280noreply@blogger.com40tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-23476321892713875582014-03-01T15:47:00.001-08:002014-03-02T10:02:28.840-08:00Was Buddha just a nice guy?This is a talk I gave at the Science and Nonduality Conference in 2013. It's a shortened version of a presentation I've given a number of times about my latest book, <a href="http://supernormalbook.com/" target="_blank">Supernormal</a>.<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/8eJkFh1-5Yw" width="360"></iframe>Dean Radinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16131263574182645280noreply@blogger.com46tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-28100260096382550392014-03-01T14:44:00.000-08:002014-03-01T14:44:56.981-08:00"Predicting the unpredictable" in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience<span style="font-size: large;">I conducted my first presentiment experiment in 1996. As of today this type of experiment has been repeated something like 40 times by a dozen labs. In this article, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Julia Mossbridge, Patrizio Tressoldi, Jessica Utts, John Ives, Wayne Jonas and I discuss implications and </span><span style="font-size: large;">potential</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">applications of this phenomenon. The meta-analysis mentioned in this article considers only a clearly defined subset of the published studies. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00146/abstract" target="_blank">Predicting the unpredictable: Critical analysis and practical implications of predictive anticipatory activity </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A recent meta-analysis of experiments from seven independent laboratories
(n=26) published since 1978 indicates that the human body can
apparently detect randomly delivered stimuli occurring 1-10 seconds in
the future. The key
observation in these studies is that human physiology appears to be able
to distinguish between unpredictable dichotomous future stimuli, such
as emotional vs. neutral images or sound vs. silence. This phenomenon
has been called presentiment (as in "feeling the future"). In this paper
we call it predictive anticipatory activity or PAA. The phenomenon is
"predictive" because it can distinguish between upcoming stimuli; it is
"anticipatory" because the physiological changes occur before a future
event; and it is an "activity" because it involves changes in the
cardiopulmonary, skin, and/or nervous systems. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">PAA is an
unconscious phenomenon that seems to be a time-reversed reflection of
the usual physiological response to a stimulus. It appears to resemble
precognition (consciously knowing something is going to happen before it
does), but PAA specifically refers to unconscious physiological
reactions as opposed to conscious premonitions. Though it is possible
that PAA underlies the conscious experience of precognition, experiments
testing this idea have not produced clear results. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The first part
of this paper reviews the evidence for PAA and examines the two most
difficult challenges for obtaining valid evidence for it: expectation
bias and multiple analyses. The second part speculates on possible
mechanisms and the theoretical implications of PAA for understanding
physiology and consciousness. The third part examines potential
practical applications.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">See the <a href="http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00146/abstract" target="_blank">full paper here</a>.</span>Dean Radinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16131263574182645280noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-6194381430305080332014-02-28T13:36:00.000-08:002014-03-02T13:34:41.229-08:00Facts are not allowed in WikipediaIn Wikipedia (as of February 28, 2014), the entry on psychic Eileen Garrett includes the following:<br />
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Garrett took part in "clairvoyance" tests. One of the tests was organised by Joseph Rhine
at Duke University in 1933 which involved cards with certain symbols
that were placed in a sealed envelope and participants were asked to
guess their contents. Garrett scored 2,433 correct hits in 10,900 cards<span style="font-size: x-small;"><u>.</u></span> She performed poorly and later criticised the tests by claiming that the cards lacked a psychic energy called "energy stimulus" and that she could not perform clairvoyance to order.</blockquote>
J. B. Rhine's ESP experiments involved the use of card decks with 5 symbols, so the probability of a correct guess was 1 in 5 or 0.2. That means with 10,900 cards guessed the chance expected number of correct guesses was 2,180. The exact cumulative binomial probability of Garrett's 2,433 hits out of 10,900 guesses in a standard ESP card test is associated with a probability of p = 0.000000001, which in turn is associated with a z score of 5.97. This is close to the estimate<br />
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z = (hits - N/5)/sqrt(Npq), where N = number of guesses, p = 0.2 and q = 1-p, or </blockquote>
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z = (2433 - (10900/5))/sqrt(10900 * .2 * .8) = 6.06.</blockquote>
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While Garrett might have been disappointed with her results, someone should have explained to her that from a statistical perspective her performance was astoundingly good and did support the idea of providing "clairvoyance to order."<br />
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Wikipedia's entry on Rhine and his ESP card test results is equally flawed. For details read the book, <i>ESP After Sixty Years</i>, <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=BOf6-nVjVTIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=ESP+after+sixty+years&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Pf0QU5WWItHloATm44LYCw&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=ESP%20after%20sixty%20years&f=false" target="_blank">on Google books</a>. It shows that Rhine and his colleagues were well aware of all of the criticisms of their methods (sensory leakage, selective reporting, recording errors, etc.), they responded to those critiques by steadily improving and testing the new methods, and they showed that the ESP interpretation remained valid. That book also shows that dozens of other investigators had tried to replicate Rhine's work and that cumulatively they were successful. This book is also the forerunner of modern meta-analysis.<br />
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Update 1: When the Wikipedia entry on Garrett was edited by referring to this blog post, the correction was removed in 6 hours, citing my post as an "unreliable source." This would be funny if it wasn't so silly. I am simply pointing out a mathematical fact. I guess facts are not allowed on Wikipedia.<br />
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Update 2: There is a <a href="file:///D:/%20https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Constant_arguing_over_parapsychology" target="_blank">discussion</a> on Wikipedia where editors assert that parapsychology is a pseudoscience, and this is why it doesn't deserve a balanced article. I guess some simply cannot accept that parapsychology is an elected affiliate in good standing with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as I describe <a href="http://deanradin.com/evidence/evidence.htm" target="_blank">here on my evidence page</a>. The AAAS is the world's largest scientific organization and as such it represents the scientific mainstream. To be an affiliate of the AAAS an organization must be approved by the AAAS Council and it must be consistent with the objectives of the AAAS: "To further the work of scientists, to
facilitate cooperation among them, to foster scientific freedom and
responsibility, to improve the effectiveness of science in the promotion
of human welfare, and to increase public understanding and appreciation
of the importance and promise of the methods of science in human
progress." The <a href="http://www.parapsych.org/" target="_blank">Parapsychological Association</a>, which I've been President of four times, is strongly in favor of these objectives. We are especially in favor of promoting scientific freedom to seriously investigate any topic without prejudice. That aspiration is apparently prohibited on Wikipedia.<br />
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The AAAS does not tolerate pseudoscience, nor does it include any so-called "skeptical organizations" in its list of affiliates. Wikipedia editors are ignoring the fact that parapsychology is sanctioned as legitimate by mainstream science. This is yet another fact disallowed on Wikipedia.<br />
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If Wikipedia was really interested interested in being a neutral, fact-based encyclopedia, it would disallow editorial prejudice from distorting articles on controversial topics, and it would end the ridiculous policy of allowing anyone, regardless of expertise, to edit articles anonymously. I urge readers of my blog to regularly view the <a href="http://wikipediocracy.com/" target="_blank">Wikipediocracy</a> site, which is doing a good job in exposing major problems with Wikipedia across <i>all</i> disciplines.<br />
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<br />Dean Radinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16131263574182645280noreply@blogger.com68tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-52351867037840068972014-01-21T22:27:00.000-08:002014-01-30T09:59:55.681-08:00Popular science media and ESP<span style="font-size: large;">The popular science media often gets things wrong about psi research. But today I saw a news post that establishes a new threshold for journalistic nonsense.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In its "Weird" news section, <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/01/140121-esp-clairvoyance-sixth-sense-science-telepathy/" target="_blank">National Geographics</a>' website carried an article entitled "ESP Is Put to the Test—Can You Foretell the Results? It's just hokum, say researchers, who offer a new experiment as proof."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The news post goes on to report that a <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0084490" sl-processed="1">study published January 13 in <em>PLOS ONE</em>,</a> an online peer-reviewed journal, provides this proof in an experiment described as:"Can people use ESP to figure out what's on the face of a card?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Seriously?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In fact the paper doesn't mention ESP, the reported study wasn't a test of ESP, and the references in the article don't cite any articles that are even tangentially relevant to ESP. It had nothing whatsoever to do with ESP.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So what was the source of this silly mistake, blaring proof of ESP as "hokum"? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The majority of science news appearing on blogs today, even on presumably well-regarded sites like <i>National Geographic</i>, is just copy and pasted from other blogs. When one of the blogs gets the story wrong, but the topic seems suitably spicy for a "weird column," a writer who is under pressure to provide daily blog content assumes that the content of the copied blog is correct, embellishes it a bit to avoid plagiarism filters, and submits it to an editor who doesn't have the time or interest to check the facts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This practice quickly perpetuates nonsense, the nonsense morphs into a widely cited source, and that soon becomes gospel on <a href="http://wikipediocracy.com/" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>. Wow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Update thanks to Nancy Zingrone: A further demonstration of how nonsense feeds on itself to become breathtakingly stupid: see <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDFeBMGMyTs" target="_blank">Discovery News</a>. </span><br />
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Dean Radinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16131263574182645280noreply@blogger.com43tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-15150219423206834292014-01-14T10:48:00.000-08:002014-01-14T10:48:06.070-08:00Call for an open, informed study of all aspects of consciousness<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This opinion article, in a mainstream journal, is signed by academics hailing from Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Duke, Cornell, University of California, University of Washington, University of Colorado, Rice University, Penn State College of Medicine, University of San Francisco, University of Sao Paulo, Università di Padova, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, University of Adelaide, University of Lisbon, University of Munich, Granada University, University of London, Edinburgh University, University of Tolouse, Lund University, etc..<br />
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" ... we would like to stress the following:<br />
<br />1) Research on
parapsychological phenomena (psi) is being carried out in various
accredited universities and research centers throughout the world by
academics in different disciplines trained in the scientific method
(e.g., circa 80 Ph.D.s have been awarded in psi-related topics in the UK
in recent years). This research has continued for over a century
despite the taboo against investigating the topic, almost complete lack
of funding, and professional and personal attacks. The
Parapsychological Association has been an affiliate of the AAAS since
1969, and more than 20 Nobel prizewinners and many other eminent
scientists have supported the study of psi or even conducted research
themselves..."<br />
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<a href="http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00017/full" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">See the full post here.</span></a>Dean Radinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16131263574182645280noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-60133140752126300322014-01-13T16:08:00.000-08:002014-01-13T16:08:17.416-08:00Chinese translation of The Conscious Universe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 15.600000381469727px;">My book <i>The Conscious Universe </i>was just published in Chinese. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 15.600000381469727px;">With this latest publication </span></span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 15.600000381469727px;"><a href="http://deanradin.com/NewWeb/TCUindex.html" target="_blank">The Conscious Universe</a></i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 15.600000381469727px;">, <i><a href="http://deanradin.com/NewWeb/EMindex.html" target="_blank">Entangled Minds</a></i> and <i><a href="http://supernormalbook.com/" target="_blank">Supernormal</a></i> have collectively been translated into Chinese, French, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 15.600000381469727px;">Portuguese,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 15.600000381469727px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 15.600000381469727px;">Italian, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 15.600000381469727px;">Russian,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 15.600000381469727px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 15.600000381469727px;">Korean, Japanese, Turkish and Arabic, with (I've heard) German, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 15.600000381469727px;">Finnish, Czech, Greek, and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 15.600000381469727px;">Bulgarian possibly </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 15.600000381469727px;">in the works</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 15.600000381469727px;">. </span></span>Dean Radinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16131263574182645280noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-48181622863310564702013-11-20T12:03:00.000-08:002013-11-20T12:03:00.885-08:00Mediumship study published<h1 style="text-align: center;">
<a href="http://www.frontiersin.org/consciousness_research/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00834/abstract" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Electrocortical activity associated with subjective communication with the deceased</span></a></h1>
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Arnaud Delorme (1,2), Julie Beischel (3), Leena Michel (1), Mark Boccuzzi (3), Dean Radin (1) and Paul J. Mills (4)</div>
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<li><span style="font-size: 13px;">1</span> Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, CA, USA</li>
<li><sup>2 </sup>Institute of Neural Computation, SCCN, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA</li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">3 </span>Windbridge Institute, Tucson, AZ, USA</li>
<li><sup>4 </sup>Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA</li>
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During advanced meditative practices, unusual perceptions can arise
including the sense of receiving information about unknown people who
are deceased. As with meditation, this mental state of communication
with the deceased involves calming mental chatter and becoming receptive
to subtle feelings and sensations. Psychometric and brain
electrophysiology data were collected from six individuals who had
previously reported accurate information about deceased individuals
under double-blind conditions. Each experimental participant performed
two tasks with eyes closed. </div>
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In the first task, the participant was given
only the first name of a deceased person and asked 25 questions. After
each question, the participant was asked to silently perceive
information relevant to the question for 20 s and then respond verbally.
Responses were transcribed and then scored for accuracy by individuals
who knew the deceased persons. Of the four mediums whose accuracy could
be evaluated, three scored significantly above chance (<i>p</i> <
0.03). The correlation between accuracy and brain activity during the 20
s of silent mediumship communication was significant in frontal theta
for one participant (<i>p</i> < 0.01). </div>
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In the second task,
participants were asked to experience four mental states for 1 min each:
(1) thinking about a known living person, (2) listening to a biography,
(3) thinking about an imaginary person, and (4) interacting mentally
with a known deceased person. Each mental state was repeated three
times. Statistically significant differences at <i>p</i> < 0.01 after
correction for multiple comparisons in electrocortical activity among
the four conditions were obtained in all six participants, primarily in
the gamma band (which might be due to muscular activity). </div>
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These
differences suggest that the impression of communicating with the
deceased may be a distinct mental state distinct from ordinary thinking
or imagination.</div>
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Dean Radinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16131263574182645280noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-80701829514895347752013-11-08T10:50:00.003-08:002013-11-08T10:50:45.934-08:00Metaphysics of the tea ceremonyI've posted a few more articles on my <a href="http://deanradin.com/evidence/evidence.htm" target="_blank">evidence page</a>, including this one: <a href="http://deanradin.com/evidence/Shiah2013.pdf" target="_blank">Metaphysics of the tea ceremony</a>: A randomized trial investigating the roles of intention and belief on mood while drinking tea, by Yung-Jong Shiah and myself. Our objective was to test, under double-blind, randomized conditions, whether drinking tea "treated" solely with good intentions would enhance mood more than drinking the same tea. We used oolong tea.<br />
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This was a follow-up to an earlier, <a href="http://deanradin.com/papers/chocolate.pdf" target="_blank">similar study</a> testing whether intentionally "treated" chocolate would result in improved mood, also under double-blind conditions. Both studies showed that the treated substance resulted in better mood. The latest study also studied the role of expectation to see if it modulated this intentional effect. It did, to a highly significant degree.<br />
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The bottom line is that if you believe/expect that you are consuming a specially treated substance, that belief alone will strongly influence your mood. But if the substance is also intentionally "treated," then it will influence you even more. And vice versa -- if you don't believe, you're less likely to see any effect.<br />
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This is related to the <a href="http://archived.parapsych.org/sheep_goat_effect.htm" target="_blank">sheep-goat effect</a>, long observed in psi studies, and to <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23343015" target="_blank">placebo effects</a> in medicine and to <a href="http://rosenthal.socialpsychology.org/" target="_blank">experimenter expectancy effects</a> in a wide range of areas. These effects have not been warmly embraced in science or in medicine despite the evidence that they exist because of a core assumption that underlies much of scientific epistemology: objective measurements are supposed to be completely independent of observation or psychological factors. This assumption works well enough to be useful in many contexts, but it's not universally true.<br />
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When core assumptions are found to be incorrect, that's where real progress begins.Dean Radinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16131263574182645280noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-91662128436350408602013-04-28T15:45:00.003-07:002013-11-05T21:57:45.683-08:00Show me the evidence<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Critics are fond of saying that there is no scientific evidence for psi. They wave their fist in the air and shout, "Show me the evidence!" Then they turn red and have a coughing fit. In less dramatic cases a student might be genuinely curious and open-minded, but unsure where to begin to find reliable evidence about psi. Google knows all and sees all, but it doesn't know how to interpret or evaluate what it knows (at least not yet).<br />
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In the past, my response to the "show me" challenge has been to give the titles of a few <a href="http://www.deanradin.com/supernormal.htm" target="_blank">books </a>to read, point to the bibliographies in those books, and advise the person to do their homework. I still think that this is the best approach for a beginner tackling a complex topic. But given the growing expectation that information on virtually any topic ought to be available online within 60 seconds, traditional methods of scholarship are disappearing fast.<br />
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So I've created a <a href="http://www.deanradin.com/evidence/evidence.htm" target="_blank">SHOW ME</a> page with downloadable articles on psi and psi-related topics, all published in peer-reviewed journals. Most of these papers were published after the year 2000. Most report experimental studies or meta-analyses of classes of experiments. I will continue to add to this page and flesh it out, including links to recent or to especially useful ebooks. This page may eventually become annotated, then multithreaded and hyperlinked, and then morph into a Wiki.<br />
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Update (November 5, 2013): <a href="http://carlossalvarado.wordpress.com/2013/11/06/sites-with-links-to-parapsychology-articles-i/" target="_blank">Here's a link</a> to another good web site with links to scholarly articles on parapsychology, on Carlos Alvarado's blog.<br />
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Another reply, April 19, again on the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/reply-to-chris-anderson-t_b_3119890.html" target="_blank">Huffington Post</a>.<br />
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The latest (April 18, 2013) reaction, an excellent one, on the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/dear-ted-is-it-bad-scienc_b_3104049.html" target="_blank">Huffington Post</a>. The bottom line is that TED has made a tragic strategic mistake.<br />
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Brought to my attention by Craig Weiler.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">"In this case, the brouhaha started when apparently skeptics by the names
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Or <a href="http://www.ted.com/conversations/16894/rupert_sheldrake_s_tedx_talk.html" target="_blank">here for the TED site discussion</a>, which shows the furor evoked by TED's censorship.<br />
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Or here for a discussion about this topic on the <a href="http://www.dailygrail.com/Fresh-Science/2013/3/TED-Deletes-Talks-Rupert-Sheldrake-and-Graham-Hancock" target="_blank">Daily Grail</a>.<br />
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Or here for a "big picture" opinion by <a href="http://weilerpsiblog.wordpress.com/2013/03/16/ted-swings-the-banhammer-it-rebounds-into-their-face/" target="_blank">Craig Weiler</a>.<br />
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This episode is just another shameful example of the psi taboo at work. It is promulgated by small-minded, loud-mouthed "skeptics" who intimidate editors with bullying tactics. <br />
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And now this, which is a predictable next step on the part of TED:<br />
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Some view this affair as a clash between those who hold a materialist worldview vs. some other (non-materialist?) worldview. My own opinion is that the research I do on psi phenomena is orthogonal to such ideologies. That's because the very meaning of "material" has changed so much over the past few centuries, and indeed even recently with the discovery of dark matter and energy, that to try to draw a strong distinction between material vs. non-material worldviews doesn't make sense. E.g., I am completely comfortable with the idea that one day psi will be discovered to be a property of matter. It would just be a more comprehensive understanding of matter than the one we have today.<br />
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TED's silent revolution. <a href="http://www.etvita.com/2013/04/teds-silent-revolution.html?m=1" target="_blank">New commentary on the TED censorship</a>.<br />
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Dean Radinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16131263574182645280noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-40130409590061856292013-03-09T15:33:00.001-08:002013-03-11T21:38:35.899-07:00Another interviewMy talk at the Electric Universe conference in January 2013<br />
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Dean Radinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16131263574182645280noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-71797690932230784622013-02-05T10:07:00.000-08:002013-03-11T21:38:59.996-07:00An interviewThis is an excerpt of an interview I did at the <a href="http://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2012/09/02/eu2013-conference-the-tipping-point-2/" target="_blank">Electric Universe</a> conference in January.<br />
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<br />Dean Radinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16131263574182645280noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-48386940449443882032013-01-24T21:37:00.001-08:002013-01-24T21:37:57.443-08:00Talk on Paranormal PhenomenaTalk on the paranormal by Prof. Simon Thorpe on January 15, 2013. Thorpe is the CNRS (French National Research Center) Director of Research for the Brain and Cognition Research Center at the University of Toulouse, France. The material he discusses will not be particularly new for most readers of this blog, but he does an excellent job summarizing some of the psi data.<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/wtNUIUr4fYw" width="420"></iframe>Dean Radinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16131263574182645280noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-70559569466778862162012-10-24T16:50:00.002-07:002012-10-28T19:12:47.228-07:00Presentiment update<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was interviewed for a TV program on premonitions by ABC News 20/20. It will be broadcast on Friday October 26, 2012, and then afterwards the entire show can be seen on the <a href="http://abc.go.com/watch/2020/166626" target="_blank">ABC website</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Update</i> (10/28/12): The broadcast program was completely different than what I had been told it would be by one of the producers. Someone at ABC News apparently thought there was too much science on the program, and as a result the show was dumbed down to the point where the content ranged between outright stupid and ridiculously silly. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2012/10/22/evidence-of-premonitions-hinted-at-in-new-study/" target="_blank">This page on the ABC</a> site makes the show newsworthy because it reports on "Evidence of Premonitions Discovered in New Study." This title refers to a <a href="http://www.frontiersin.org/perception_science/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00390/abstract" target="_blank">meta-analysis of presentiment experiments</a> published in the journal <i>Frontiers in Perception Science</i> by Northwestern University neuroscientist Julia Mossbridge, University of Padova psychologist Patrizio Tressoldi, and University of California Irvine statistician Jessica Utts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What they analyzed were experiments similar to those I've been publishing since 1997 and describing every now and then on this blog. The paper's abstract reads:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #3e3d40; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">This meta-analysis of 26 reports published between 1978 and 2010 tests an unusual hypothesis: for stimuli of two or more types that are presented in an order designed to be unpredictable and that produce different post-stimulus physiological activity, the direction of pre-stimulus physiological activity reflects the direction of post-stimulus physiological activity, resulting in an unexplained anticipatory effect. The reports we examined used one of two paradigms: (1) randomly ordered presentations of arousing vs. neutral stimuli, or (2) guessing tasks with feedback (correct vs. incorrect). Dependent variables included: electrodermal activity, heart rate, blood volume, pupil dilation, electroencephalographic activity, and blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) activity. To avoid including data hand-picked from multiple different analyses, no </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #3e3d40; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">post hoc</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #3e3d40; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"> experiments were considered. The results reveal a significant overall effect with a small effect size [fixed effect: overall ES = 0.21, 95% CI = 0.15–0.27, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #3e3d40; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">z</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #3e3d40; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"> = 6.9, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #3e3d40; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">p</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #3e3d40; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"> < 2.7 × 10</span><sup style="background-color: white; color: #3e3d40; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px !important; line-height: 22px;">−12</sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #3e3d40; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">; random effects: overall (weighted) ES = 0.21, 95% CI = 0.13–0.29, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #3e3d40; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">z </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #3e3d40; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">= 5.3, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #3e3d40; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">p </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #3e3d40; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">< 5.7 × 10</span><sup style="background-color: white; color: #3e3d40; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px !important; line-height: 22px;">−8</sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #3e3d40; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">]. Higher quality experiments produced a quantitatively larger effect size and a greater level of significance than lower quality studies. The number of contrary unpublished reports that would be necessary to reduce the level of significance to chance (</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #3e3d40; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">p </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #3e3d40; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">> 0.05) was conservatively calculated to be 87 reports. We explore alternative explanations and examine the potential linkage between this unexplained anticipatory activity and other results demonstrating meaningful pre-stimulus activity preceding behaviorally relevant events. We conclude that to further examine this currently unexplained anticipatory activity, multiple replications arising from different laboratories using the same methods are necessary. The cause of this anticipatory activity, which undoubtedly lies within the realm of natural physical processes (as opposed to supernatural or paranormal ones), remains to be determined.</span></blockquote>
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Dean Radinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16131263574182645280noreply@blogger.com35tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-68932427049659839132012-08-13T19:30:00.000-07:002012-08-17T08:49:26.613-07:00Italian translation of The Conscious Universe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My books are now translated into Russian, French, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese, Turkish, Arabic and Italian. I like the cover of the new Italian translation because the "IM" in IMPOSSIBILI is fading away.<br />
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