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Evolution of Religion from Schizophrenia and the Schizotypal Personality
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 771680:MV84ODE1NzVfMTM2MzQyNDVfOEZERDQ2MUY=] Could entanglement prove to be the “Holy Grail” for merging scientific and mystical, religious thought? There have certainly been people who have tried to draw this kind of conclusion, but I think they are mistaken. :5a:Entanglement is a wholly physical process. I called my book The God Effect because it has been suggested that entanglement is the working mechanism of the Higgs boson, a very special particle that gives everything its mass, and has been called the God Particle, because it’s so fundamental. But that’s just a label. It’s also true that Nobel Prize winning physicist Brian Josephson has suggested that entanglement could explain telepathy (much to the irritation of paranormal debunker James Randi), but Josephson was saying if telepathy exists, then here’s a physical mechanism that could explain it – he wasn’t indulging in mystical navel-gazing. What entanglement (and quantum theory in general) does do is remind us is that the real world is much stranger than we imagine. That’s because the way things are in the world of the very small is totally different to large scale objects like desks and pens. We can’t rely on experience and common sense to guide us on how things are going to work at this level. And that can make some of the effects of quantum physics seem mystical. In the end, this is something similar to science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke’s observation that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” http://www.monstrous.com/forum/index.php?topic=3032.0;wap2 Nobel Prize winning physicist Brian Josephson has suggested that entanglement could explain telepathy . How about Tv. is talking to you.... :hmm: :crazyjak: [/quote]
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very interesting and fascinating lecture by stanfords robert sapolsky.
a must see
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