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21st Century Science

Posted by tomservo (M) on April 5, 2007 at 17:56:59

In Reply to: Middle Section of article, "20th and 21st Century Science" posted by geoffkait on April 4, 2007 at 07:50:42:

Hi

The reason I posted the link to this site originally was because of what they represent and to provoke thinking.

They have proven to scientific satisfaction, a number of things about “mind / matter” connections that had long been thought to be imaginary by “main stream science”.
The work I was aware of was mostly in effecting what would normally be random events like a million coin tosses. They found (thru the rigors of blind testing among others) that some people could influence a repeated random even, in a desired direction, to a degree which was not large but exceeds statistical significance.
More weirdly, this effect was not distance or time dependent.
None of these people had thought they had any special talent or ESP.

For mainstream science, these folks not only proved the effect is real but its presence and a lack of mechanism opened a new can of intriguing worms, “how the heck does this work?”
Could this explain “lucky” people I wonder, could this still unknown connection mechanism over time and space explain miracles or even God?
I can see why they wax philosophically.

I think for hifi, there are at least two implications.
First, for some people, to some degree, ones thoughts CAN influence otherwise random things in the physical world, in a desired direction, to a small yet real degree.
How this is impacting the various elements in the reproduction chain based on your wants is a question as well as the possible cumulative influence of the musicians and engineers on the recording.
This would then make equipment design “for the masses” more complicated to the degree that some users could influence its actual performance in one direction or another.

Second, that even something as abstract and intangible as ESP / telekinesis, can be proven to scientific satisfaction by using regular scientific methods like Blind Testing, to remove “prior knowledge” from the tests.
Real fans of hifi (maximizing the listening experience) should not be afraid of exploring where “wishful thinking” and “actually hearing it” diverge, sometimes only observable when there is a lack of prior knowledge.
Best,

Tom Danley

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