JNLRMI Vol. II Nr. 1 February 2003
INDEX
9.
New Retrocausality Study: Volunteers Wanted -
Angela Thompson Smith
8.
Remote Sensing and the One Mind Model - Mark Germine
7. The problem of intelligent signals: expanding the quantum envelope
(response to Larry Dossey) - Matti Pitkanen
6.
Signal versus information in DMILS research protocols (Response to Kevin
Chen) - Larry Dossey
5. Quantum
Holography Computing - Peter Marcer
4.
Call for Papers - 8th International IABC
meeting on Greece - Scott Hill
3. Quantum Mind 2003: Second Announcement and Call for Papers - Stuart
Hameroff
2.
RE: "Scientific Validation of Planetary Consciousnes" - Mark Germine
1. World T'ai Chi & Qigong Day Update - Bill Douglas
9.
New Retrocausality Study - Volunteers Wanted
From: Angela Thompson Smith
Received: February 21, 2003
Please let your
Los Angeles friends know about this parapsychology experiment:
Jeffrey Mishlove and James Spottiswoode invite you to participate in a
novel precognition experiment. This experiment will test whether it is
possible to send small amounts of information backwards in time with a high
accuracy. The experiment is based on an automatic response in our
physiology. It has been known for a hundred years that when we are
alarmed
or surprised we sweat slightly and this can be measured by monitoring the
electrical resistance of our skin. Recently it has been discovered
that a
similar effect occurs just before the surprising event -- that is our skin
conductance shows that we react about 3 seconds in advance of stimulation.
With medically approved equipment, we monitor the properties of your skin
at your fingertips. Our skin sometimes reflects our emotional state. That
is, if you are a little nervous or you are suddenly surprised, your hands
become a bit damp. Our sensitive equipment can sense that change long
before it is obvious to you.
This experiment is very important because it is showing us that our nervous
system can correctly anticipate the startling sound -- even before the
system has randomly decided whether to present the sound. This appears to
be physiological evidence of precognition -- peeking slightly into the
future.
If this experiment is successful it will be an important demonstration of a
backwards-in-time, or retrocausal, communication channel. A
demonstration
of this effect poses a major challenge to existing physics and opens the
way for a number of interesting experiments in causality.
The experiment will take place on Sunday, March 2, at 1:30 pm, at the
Philosophical Research Society, 3910 Los Feliz Blvd., Los Angeles. For
more information -- and to register -- please visit the following
website:
We're hoping to have about 100 individuals participating in
this study --
so I would very much appreciate it if you would kindly inform your Los
Angeles friends about this project.
Warm regards,
Jeffrey
8. Remote Sensing and
the One Mind Model
From: Mark Germine
Received: February 21, 2002
In the February 2003 issue of JNLRMI addresses the topic of
Entanglement and Decoherence Aspects in Remote Sensing: a Topological
Geometrodynamics Approach I would like to comment on a few elements of his
article with respect to the One Mind Model of quantum reality and brain
function (Germine, 2002).
On page 7 of the article, Sidorov writes: “Beyond the obvious implications
of non-local information transfer, access to both physical and cognitive
representations, and the apparent violation of causality suggested by
pre-cognitively viewing a target that will later be chosen by a random
number generator, the next salient feature that emerges is that this
information transfer appears to be a little more complex than a mere
‘access to the universal Mind,’ or to that ‘extra dimension where
there is zero separation’ between objects in time and space.”
From a systems perspective, hierarchies are constructed from the micro to
the macro level. One such hierarchy would be the cell, tissue, organ, organ
system, and organism. In Whitehead’s philosophy of organism, which applies
both directly and indirectly to quantum theory, each element of the organism
prehends, grasps, of feels each other element, as a “quantum” of
experience or actual occasion. Thus the tissue is the nexus of its
constituent prehensions. Each cell is “internal” to each other cell, but
it is the concrescence of the relations among the cells that constitutes the
whole. This is what Whitehead called process.
This is how I view the One Mind, as the concrescence of the universal whole.
On page 9 Sidorov refers to the “overall matrix” of the “mind-matter
‘universal operator’” as an “evolutionary blueprint.” This is the
process I call reciprocal causality, in which the whole constitutes the
parts. I refer to the general theory by which both hierarchies and inverted
hierarchies come into play as “reciprocal systems theory.”
So, to get back to the notion of information flow arising through “access
to Universal Mind,” I would agree that its quite a bit more complex than
this. Information flows in both directions. In Whitehead’s ontology the
actual entity, the One Mind, would be the same as the actual occasion, the
universal concrescence, or the “universal operator.”
The process that leads to the concrescence of the actual entity is called
actualization. Actualization is equivalent to what is known in psychology as
percept genesis, and occurs in what Whitehead called the mode of causal
efficacy. The mode of causal efficacy is the quantum multiverse, which is
characterized by variations in the Higgs Field and the fundamental
constants, as well as be all the possibilities inherent in the wavefunction
or “overall matrix” of a particular universe. In terms of psychology,
the “overall matrix” is the collective unconscious in its widest sense.
The classical universe is the universe that we perceive or know, in what
Whitehead called the mode of presentational immediacy. In Platonic terms,
the mode of presentational immediacy is like the shadows in the cave. It has
no material substance or “thingness.” It is an appearance, no more, no
less. Yet it is this appearance that is the substance of our everyday life.
It is the creation of our Mind, the one actual entity that is the one actual
occasion of the classical universe. Many of these ideas are outlined in a
forthcoming book (Combs and others, 2003).
The mode of causal efficacy, the unconscious, and the “overall matrix”
are one and the same. It is within this reality that all prehensions,
internal connections, or non-local interactions occur. The classical
universe exists because we see it, and for no other reason. We see it with
our eyes, our ears, and our measuring devices. When consciousness, the local
mode of presentational immediacy, descends into the unconscious, the
non-local model of causal efficacy, remote sensing becomes possible. Remote
sensing is the appearance of an appearance, our seeing of the shadows in the
cave.
In experiments on the brain waves or ERPs generated by a random and
theoretically uncertain stimulus (Germine, 2002), it was shown that these
brain waves differ if someone has previously observed the stimulus. The
stimulus, the first observer, and the second observer are all part of a
single system or organism, so it is natural to assume that there will be
prehensions or non-local interactions between them. The concrescence of the
knowledge that the stimulus occurred, however, would involve only the
stimulus and the first observer. In the One Mind model, this appearance of a
stimulus is embedded in the appearance of a classical universe, and is a
function of the “overall matrix” or “universal operator.” Black hole
physics has taught us that this appearance is generated beyond the level of
our individual minds.
On page 24 of ’s article he considers two possible
explanations for the difference between the brain waves elicited by the
unobserved and pre-observed stimulus: 1) That the mind/brain of the first
observer actualizes (or collapses the wavefunction of) the stimulus, and
that this actualization is reflected in the processing of the stimulus in
the brain. This was the hypothesis that the experiments were intended to
test (Germine, 1998). 2) That the non-local interaction or entanglement of
the two observers causes the differences seen between brain processing of
the unobserved and pre-observed stimuli.
Sidorov hypothesizes that it is the presence of such non-local connection
between the first and second observer that make their brain wave patterns
different. Sidorov argues that if a number of other observers were not to
perceive the “oddball” stimulus, but rather the “common” stimulus at
the time both the computer and the first observer were processing the
“oddball” stimulus, then this non-local effect would be reduced or
nullified. Sidorov’s alternate explanation is testable, and should be
tested.
If Sidorov’s hypothesis is validated by experiment, then we will have
discovered the first experimental probe into the non-local interactions of
two brains. This would have enormous implications for both science and
medicine. If my original hypothesis is validated, we will have nothing short
of a revolution in both science and medicine. As outlined above, I believe
that both kinds of processes occur, and that it may be one or both that are
validated in the experimental results.
References
Combs, A., Germine, M., Goertzel, B. (Editors). Mind in Time: The Dynamics
of Thought, Reality, and Consciousness (Advances in Systems Theory,
Complexity, and the Human Sciences). Hampton Press 2003, Mount Waverly,
Victoria, Australia.
Germine, M. (2002) Scientific Validation of Planetary Consciousness. JNLRMI
(3). URL:
www.emergentmine.org/germine3.htm
Germine, M. (1998) Experimental Model for Collapse of the Quantum. URL:
www.goertzel.org/dynapsyc/1998/collapse.html
7.
The problem of intelligent signals: expanding the quantum envelope (response
to Larry Dossey)
From: Matti Pitkanen
Received: February 18, 2003
A couple of comments inspired by Larry's
warnings concerning naive applications of quantum physics to healing.
a) Quantum non-locality in standard sense is
not enough: intentionality is lacking from standard quantum physics, which
cannot give a description of intentional free will, at most free will as
selection among given alternatives. P-Adic-to-real transition transforming
p-adic ME to negative energy ME together with a jump of physical system to
higher energy state (energy conservation) is basic mechanism of precisely
targeted intentionality allowing to overcome the argument that quantum jumps
occur randomly.
b) I share also the view about need to
be cautious with the idea that healer sends something and healee receives
something. This is classical view about communications. Classical
(dissipative) communications might be involved but the most essential
element is quantum entanglement. In fact, negative energy MEs could
quite generally be the correlate for quantum communications and positive
energy MEs the correlate for dissipative classical communications.
c) Quantum communications in standard
sense are not enough: sharing of mental images is the new element and made
possible by the many-sheeted spacetime topology. Subselves (mental
images) of two separate selves fuse to a subself experienced by
both selves. This process is not possible in standard physics
and is made possibly only by nontrivial spacetime topology forcing a
generalization of subsystem concept. At the level of spacetime sheets this
means that the boundaries of subself spacetime sheets are glued to
join-along boundaries bond whereas the spacetime sheets of selves do not
have this kind of bonds.
d) Negative energy MEs (or more generally
negative energy spacetime sheets) as correlates of bound state quantum
entanglement are a must and they elegantly explain various aspects of long
term memory, sensory perception and motor action. They are also
the correlate of healing: healer could be said to receive
negative energy MEs sent by healee so that healee gets metabolic energy. But
this does not mean ordinary classical view since the process is
instantaneous qjump in which spacetime surface not containing this ME is
replaced with a spacetimessurface containing this negative energy ME
connecting healer and healee. A nonlocal process is in question and this
process explains not only precognition but also long term episodal
memory.
Matti
6.
Signal versus information in DMILS research protocols (Response to Kevin
Chen)
From: Larry Dossey
Received: February 17, 2003
Dear Kevin,
The points you make about the crucial role of intention are vital. Your
point that the increasing sensitivity of detection devices makes them more
susceptible to manipulation by conscious intention is also a profound point,
and is supported by more than 2 decades of experimentation by the Princeton
Engineering Anomalies Research Lab data of Jahn, Dunne, Nelson, Dobyns, et
al, and replicated by many labs, dealing with the effects of pre-stated
intentions on the performance of random-event generators.
In the past 2 decades Chinese scientists have made many of the same mistakes
that are being made currently by many who are involved in distant healing in
the Western world who are obsessed with the idea of "signal" -
some form of subtle energy passing between point A and point B, between
healer and subject. When Chinese scientists use the term "emitted"
qi, they are implying that some actual form of energy is flowing from the
qigong master, which can be detected by sensitive instrumentation. As you
point out, this is not necessarily the case.
I find it astonishing that so much work could have come out of China on
qigong, with virtually no consideration that these effects might be nonlocal
in nature -- i.e., that NO energetic force is mediating them. This shows how
difficult it is for humans to grasp nonlocality, which involves the
correlation of distant events without the passage of any signal whatever.
To repeat: nonlocal events are not signal-dependent. In nonlocality, nothing
is sent. Very few in medicine and healing research seems to get this. Those
who speak of "bioenergy" frequently fall into this trap. One
reason is our language, which relies on a classical, mechanical vision of
forces and energy to describe events in the world. We emphasize nouns and
objects - somebody does something to something else; somebody emits
something. Nonlocality demands that we get out of this conceptual box.
The best recent book on this is that of Nadeau and Kafatos, The Non-local
Universe. Nick Herbert's earlier book, Quantum Reality, is
excellent as well. The key points: Nonlocal events are (i) unmediated (not
signal-dependent), (2) unmitigated (do not diminish with distance, as do all
of the 4 physical forces known to exist in physics), and (3) immediate.
I believe that all the good studies in distant healing display the first two
of these characteristics. The third - immediacy - is more difficult to
establish, because it it difficult to establish the instant an intention
actually begins. But we do know that the effects of some intentions are
time-displaced, as shown by the research by Radin and Bierman and in the
review by Braud (references below). Thus we can say that the effects of
healing intention can be time-displaced. Healing, therefore, is space-time
independent and thus is genuinely nonlocal, meeting all three requirements
for nonlocal events. In parapsychology, more than a century of research
points to this conclusion. Still, medical researchers continue trying to
force healing into a local, classical framework, yearning for "subtle
energy" etc. to mediate these distant event, just as Chinese scientists
continue trying to find something that is "emitted." Granted,
energy may operate locally at short range as thermal and electromagnetic
effects, but these forces are hopeless to describe distant healing events
involving what I've called the "nonlocal gap" between healer and
healee. And these physical forces can't possibly account for the
time-displaced phenomena, as mentioned, described by Radin and Bierman and
reviewed by Braud:
Bierman DJ, Radin DI. Anomalous anticipatory response on randomized future
conditions. Perceptual & Motor Skills. 1997;84:689-90.
Braud W. Wellness implications of retroactive intentional influence:
exploring an outrageous hypothesis. Alternative Therapies in Health &
Medicine. 2000;6(1): 37-48.
There is a major difference, however, between nonlocal quantum events and
nonlocal, distant healing events at the macro-human level. Almost all
authorities in quantum mechanics who study this stuff say that one cannot
sent intelligent messages utilizing quantum nonlocality. But in healing we
obviously insert intelligent messages into the world; that's what healing is
all about. Also, people nonlocally acquire intelligent information, as in
clairvoyance and precognition, and this information is often
health-relevant. This is one reason why we can't equate quantum nonlocality
and human-level nonlocality; they are similar in that they are space-time
and signal-independent, but are not the same. The key difference may be that
consciousness (which includes intentionality) is involved in human-type
nonlocality, while it is apparently absent or exceedingly scarce at the
quantum level. [highlights by LS]
There are several systematic and meta-analytic reviews out there, which I
have pasted below. The one by Crawford, Sparber, and Jonas will be a
supplement to Alternative Therapies. The other by Jonas will appear
in the March issue of Alternative Therapies.
I have written at length on how distant healing may (and may not) work.
So too has Harald Wallach and others. Here are a few papers that might be
helpful to you and Lian:
Dossey L. The forces of healing: reflections on energy, consciousness, and
the beef Stroganoff principle. Alternative Therapies in Health and
Medicine. 1997;3(5):8-14.
Dossey L. Healing and modern physics: exploring the small-is-beautiful
assumption. Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine.
1999;5(4):12-17, 102-108.
Dossey L. Distant intentionality: an idea whose time has come. Advances
in Mind-Body Medicine. 1996;12(3):9-13
Dossey L. How healing happens: Exploring the nonlocal gap. Alternative
Therapies in Health and Medicine. 2002;8(2): 12-16, 103-110.
Walach, Harald. Theory and apory in healing research: "Influence"
versus "correlational" models. Sutble Energies & Energy
Medicine. 2002; 11(3): 189-205.
Walach H, Römer H. Complementarity is a useful concept for consciousness
studies. A reminder. Neuroendocrinology Letters. 2000;21:221-232.
I coined the term "nonlocal mind" in 1989 in my book RECOVERING
THE SOUL to designate the nonlocal behavior of consciousness. This term has
been widely used since then, but few people grasp what it implies. They
usually lapse back into "subtle energy" etc. Old habits are hard
to break!
Of course, to say that distant healing is nonlocal explains nothing. The few
physicists who study nonlocality don't know how it happens. Currently,
hypotheses abound, however. The leading one is perhaps the
"entanglement" idea, according to which distant events are subject
to the same state vector; when the state vector for one of them collapses,
the state vector for the distant event collapses as well, as if they are
"entangled" in the same state vector. In some interpretations,
consciousness enters via "observation," functioning as the trigger
to state vector collapse. This provides an entry point, perhaps, to
"intention," which seems key in distant healing phenomena. Harald
Walach's above paper goes into all this, as well as the possible role of
complementarity in physics as a possible "mechanism" (bad word) of
distant healing. I hope you get a chance to meet Harald; he is one of the
leading theorists in this field.
I once felt that "forces" and "energies" were OK to use
as metaphors in distant healing, but I no longer believe this. Even as
metaphors they are misleading; they trick people into believing something is
happening which isn't. They also give a false view of consciousness by
diminishing it's majestic, wonderful nonlocal nature.
There are two vectors to healing I would urge you to consider in your
review. One is the capacity for consciousness to INSERT information (not
energy!) into the world (as in qigong, intention, prayer, distant healing,
etc.) . The other vector is the ability of consciousness to ACQUIRE or
EXTRACT information FROM the world, as in gaining information about a future
health event via dreams, visions, intuitions, precognitions of various
sorts, distant diagnosis, and so on. This second vector is seldom discussed
but throughout history has been a very important aspect of the nonlocal role
played by consciousness in health. I've written about this in my book
REINVENTING MEDICINE, particularly in the section on dreams and healing.
Best,
Larry
DISTANT HEALING: EVIDENCE
There is increasing evidence that consciousness can manifest
nonlocally, at a distance, in ways that are health-relevant.
The following meta- or systematic analyses and studies examine the ability
of individuals nonlocally to insert information into the environment,
as it were, as in distant intentionality and intercessory prayer:
Astin JE, Harkness E, Ernst E. The efficacy of "distant healing":
a systematic review of randomized trials. Annals of Internal Medicine.2000;132:903-910.
Of 23 studies in distant healing, 57% showed positive results. A cautiously
positive systematic review.
Abbot, Neil C, Healing as a therapy for human disease: a systematic review, Journal
of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 2000, 6(2), 159-169. This
meta-analysis covers 59 randomized controlled studies, (including 10
dissertation abstracts and 5 pilot studies) of healing in humans up to the
year 2000. Of 22 fully reported trials, 10 (45%) suggested significant
effects.
Braud, William and Schlitz, Marilyn. A methodology for the objective study
of transpersonal imagery, Journal of Scientific Exploration 1989,
3(1), 43-63. This meta-analysis focuses on electrodermal activity (EDA), a
measure of skin resistance that reflects states of tension. Healers have
been able to selectively lower and raise EDA, aided by feedback from a meter
attached to the healee's skin. In a series of studies by William Braud and
Marilyn Schlitz there were 323 sessions with 4 experimenters, 62 influencers
and 271 subjects. Of the 15 studies, 6 (40 per cent) produced significant
results. Of the 323 sessions, 5 percent were successful (p = .000023). That
is, such results could have occurred by chance only twenty three times in a
million.
Crawford CC, Sparber AG, Jonas WB. A systematic review of the quality of
research on hands-on healing: clinical and laboratory studies. Alternative
Therapies in Health and Illness. 2003: In press. A total of 45
laboratory and 45 clinical studies published between 1956 and 2001 are
reviewed, using stringent inclusion criteria. 70.5 % of the clinical studies
reported positive outcomes, as did 62% of the laboratory studies; 9% of the
clinical studies reported negative outcomes as did 33% of the laboratory
studies. For clinical studies, the mean percent overall internal validity
for distance healing was 75% and for hands-on healing was 65%. For
laboratory studies, the internal validity for hands-on healing was 82% and
for distance healing was 81%. Thus, distant healing studies scored higher
than hands-on healing studies and laboratory studies better than clinical
studies.
Jonas WB. The middle way: Realistic randomized controlled trials for the
evaluation of spiritual healing. The Journal of Alternative and
Complementary Medicine. 2001;7(1):5-7. A positive meta-analysis of
studies in distant mental influence on animate and inanimate systems,
including distant healing and prayer.
Jonas WB. A meta-analysis of studies in distant healing. Alternative
Therapies in Health and Medicine. 2003;9(2): in press.
Schlitz, Marilyn/ Braud, William, Distant intentionality and healing:
assessing the evidence, Alternative Therapies 1997, 3(6), 62-73.
Analyzing 19 experiments in which one person sought to influence another
person's electrodermal activity (EDA), they found highly significant effects
(p < .0000007).
Roberts L, Ahmed I, Hall S. Intercessory prayer for the alleviation of ill
health (Cochrane Review). The Cochrane Library, Issue 3, 2001. http://www.cochrane.org/cochrane/revabstr/ab000368.htm.
This Cochrane Review finds the data "too inconclusive to guide those
wishing to uphold or refute the effect of intercessory prayer on health care
outcomesŠ.[T]he evidence presented so far is interesting enough to justify
further study." This analysis is flawed because of failure to include
many relevant studies.
Here is a study you will find interesting:
Yan X, Lin H, Li H, Traynor-Kaplan A, Xia Z-Q, Lu F, Fang Y, Dao M.
Structure and property changes in certain materials influenced by the
external qi of qigong. Material Research Innovations.
1999;2(6):349-359. This experiment explores the ability of a qi gong master,
using external qi, to produce significant structural changes in water
and aqueous solutions, alter the phase behavior of dipalmitoyl phosphatidyl
choline (DPPC) liposomes, and enables the growth of Fab protein crystals.
These results demonstrate objective phenomena resulting from qigong and the
potential of this ancient technology system, even in material processing.
Important attributes of qi are summarized and the possible
implications of these results from the materials perspective are discussed.
5. Quantum
Holography Computing
From: Peter Marcer - BCSCMsG
Received: 2/9/2001
As a founder, and current chair of the British Computer Society
Cybernetic Machine specialist Group I very much agree with and share your
objectives. The Group (where the guiding principle is that the brain is the
role model for the computer and not vice verse) has been a UK/European forum
into the physical foundations of information and information processing,
since its inaugural lecture in 1986 on the Quantum Theory of Computation by
David Deutsch, the UK's second Alan Turing. Full details, of the Group's
current programme, research interests, successes like the European
Pathfinder Project and the Liege International Symposium into some aspect of
the Physical Frontiers of Quantum Information Processing, held annually now
at the International Conference of Computing Anticipatory Systems (CASYS)
organised by Daniel Dubois of CHAOS, in cooperation with the University of
Liege, Belgium (papers published as an American Institute of Physics (AIP)
proceedings or in the International Journal of Computing Anticipatory
Systerms (IJCAS)), are to be found at http://www.bcs.org.uk/cybergroup.htm
It has, however, as you might infer, always been very much the "odd
man out" Group in a Society largely dedicated to the mathematical
foundations of computation, algorithmic theory, computational practice, etc
And is even more so now that our principal interests feature quantum
holography and not the qubit computation, which is a natural extension from
these mathematical foundations, even though quantum holography already has
well developed experimental foundations and even production devices such as
medical magnetic resonance imaging systems in worldwide use. In fact, we
believe, that if quantum physicists had been taught nuclear rather atomic
spectroscopy, that quantum physics would have received world wide
recognition long ago as a canonical methodology for solving pattern
recognition problems and not some enigma, which can only be understood by
taking one of a whole series of philosophical positions known as
"interpretations" which, unlike the formalism itself, lead to
paradox and endless debate. This is because in nuclear spectroscopy the
means of optimally controlling quantum mechanical processes has long been
known (ie since the 1950s and Nobel Prizes have been awarded!), such that
the Heisenberg commutation relations are not only a "foundational"
quantum principle, but also in such controls become the means by which to
compute and in particular to perform pattern recognition. This also follows
from the fact discovered in the 1980s, that in addition to the class of
quantum observables that are the eigenvalues of some quantum mechanical
operator usually the Hamiltonian, there is a second class which are the
gauge invariant phases of the quantum mechanical state vector, which are
known under the name of the Berry or Geometric phase.
The most significant finding, so far, in my estimation in relation to
quantum holography, is based on experiments carried out by the Peter Gariaev
group at the Institute of Control Sciences of the Russian Academy of Science
( presented at CASYS 2000 and to be published the IJCAS proceedings). It
identifies DNA as a wave biocomputer, which in addition to using the context
dependent genetic texts known as the genetic code, as a means of its own
duplication and of RNA message transference, also incremental encodes, the
incrementally decodable holographic 3 dimensional spatial information
necessary to construct the embryo of its organism! This not only changes the
currently established understanding of how the genome works, but says that
the origin of life is essentially intrinsic to the laws of physics which
govern the universe in which we live. It explains not only how in relation
to beings as complex as ourselves, reproduction takes place but how it is
achieved so rapidly and so successfully. Moreover, Darwinism is not
contradicted, because in quantum holography, entropy is not only a measure
of disorder and chance mutation, but also an information metric leading to
complementary Lamarckian-like processes of exponential morphogenic change in
the context of rapid environmental change.
Best Wishes and Regards,
Peter
4.
Call for Papers - 8th International IABC
meeting in Greece
From: Scott Hill
Date: Thu Jan 16, 2003
From the IABC headquarters in Florida we have received this announcement of
the upcoming 8th annual meeting in Greece. I have previously posted in this
forum the program for the 7th int'l conference in Helsingør, Denmark, plus
several supplementary reports on the EChT cancer therapy, Dr. Nordenstrøms
work, and other EM experimental therapy techniques. Please search the
archives of "bioelectromagnetics" (under yahoogroups) if you have
not seen these articles.
Please send your abstracts and articles directly to the IABC, and not
to us! However, we will be willing to help European, Asian and African/South
American authors who are weak in technical English to
help restructure their papers in English, and I hope that this time, we will
be able to make the proceedings available in electronic form.
Scott Hill
bioelectromagnetics group
Frontier Sciences European Network
info@frontiersciences.zzn.com
.
THE 8TH SYMPOSIUM OF THE IABC
Sponsored by the INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR BIOLOGICALLY CLOSED ELECTRIC
CIRCUITS IN BIOMEDICINE
in cooperation with the Laboratory of Medical Physics of the Medical School,
and Department of Nuclear Technology of the Polytechnic School, Democritus
University of Thrace; Alexandroupolis and Xanthi Campuses
When: September 19 - 22, 2003
Where: Thraki Palace Hotel Alexandroupolis, Greece
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Symposium President: Professor Photios Anninos
Vice President Professor Nikolaos Tsagas
Vice President Dr. Adam Adamoupolis
Dr. Athanasia Kotini
Corresponding Secretary: Ms. Ionela Tranca
Dear IABC Associates and Friends,
The forthcoming IABC Symposium promises to be of vital interest to an ever
widening group of attendees. We anticipate a variety of alternative medical
presentations from many parts of the globe, but
our primary focus will be on electrical and/or electromagnetically based
medical innovations helpful particularly to oncologists, ophthalmologists,
and neurologists.
CANCER and EchT (Direct Current)
Oncologists attending their first IABC symposium can benefit from the
fifteen years of experience our 300 Chinese associates have had with the
application of electrochemical therapy (EchT) to many types of
cancer as well as hemangioma. Today literally thousands of cancer patients
have been treated with EchT, and the success rates achieved have been far
higher than any reported in western medicine. Led by
Professor Xin Yu-Ling, EchT is now being taught to physicians in South Korea
and other countries on the Pacific Rim. EchT is also being used successfully
at Klinik St. Georg, Bad Aibling, Germany and
in several other European clinics. Professor Bjorn E. W. Nordenstrøm
discovered EchT and introduced this technique to China in 1987 where it has
now become fully accepted by the Chinese Medical Association.
AGE RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION (Micro currents)
The leading cause of blindness in persons over the age of 65 is now being
effectively treated by means of micro currents of electricity. Several
leading American researchers now preparing to introduce this
therapy into the medical mainstream will be offering presentations. In 1997
U.S. Golfing legend, the late Sam Snead, was treated with MCS (micro current
stimulation) and over a period of four days his vision
in the better eye improved from 20/100 to 20/30. This improvement is
atypically high, but in the great majority of ARMD cases there is either
some improvement or a halt in the progressive degeneration.
MCS has also been proven efficacious in the treatment of retinitus
pigmentosa.
We look forward to learning of the recent progress made applying MCS not
only to vision problems, but also to neuromuscular and other medical
problems.
NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS (Weak Magnetic Fields)
Professors Photios Anninos, Nikolaos Tsagas, and their associates have been
making medical history with the application of weak magnetic fields to an
array of medical disorders. For more than a decade Parkinson’s Disease and
epilepsy have been very successfully treated with extremely weak magnetic
fields. Other neurological disorders such as cerebral palsy, Alzheimer’s
Disease, and multiple sclerosis have also responded, but not as remarkably
as has PD or epilepsy.
More recently weak magnetic fields have been successfully applied in the
treatment of schizophrenia, autism, and infertility. The limits of efficacy
for this treatment have not yet been determined.
Our symposium president, Professor Anninos, will be pleased to share
information on the numerous medical achievements made by the department of
medical physics.
Attendees will visit the department laboratory housed in the new University
Hospital, the largest hospital in the Balkans.
The Symposium Challenge
Physicians, but especially neurologists who wish to attend the symposium are
invited to bring with them one or two Parkinson’s patients from their
country of origin. The PD patients must be ambulatory, and otherwise in good
health. The patients will be evaluated and treated during the course of the
symposium.
A maximum of ten patients will be accepted for evaluation and treatment. For
more information, please contact Carl F. Firley, medical coordinator for
"The Symposium Challenge."
Attendees can inspect the superconducting quantum interference device (or
SQUID) and see for themselves how the SQUID is used to evaluate the patient
and thereafter, how weak magnetic fields
are applied in treating the patients.
If ten patients are involved, we predict that from 5 to 8 of the patients
will clearly show improvement over the duration of the symposium.
First Call for Papers
Complete information regarding the symposium will be sent to you shortly.
This announcement is being made in order to inform you of the symposium
dates, and in the hope that you will reserve time for
the symposium on your calendar.
In Appreciation
The pioneering BCEC research of IABC founder Professor Bjørn E. W.
Nordenstrøm ties these diverse therapies together. It is with our profound
gratitude to him and his associates at the Karolinska
Institut in Stockholm, Sweden, that we recognize the monumental contribution
to medical science made possible by Professor Nordenstrøm’s work.
Carl F. Firley
IABC Vice President and Secretary General
4976 SW Bimini Circle S.
Palm City, Florida 34990 U.S.A.
Phone: 772 283 2180 Fax: 772 283 9943
email: iabc@adelphia.net
3.
Quantum Mind 2003: Second Announcement and Call for Papers
From: Stuart Hameroff
Received: November 4, 2002
Quantum Mind 2003: Consciousness, Quantum Physics and the Brain
March 15-19, 2003,
Tucson Convention Center and Leo Rich Theater
The University of Arizona
www.consciousness.arizona.edu/quantum-mind2
Could quantum information be the key to understanding consciousness?
Will the study of consciousness enable quantum information technology?
The nature of consciousness and its place in the universe remain mysterious.
Classical models view consciousness as computation among the brain's neurons
but fail to address its enigmatic features. At the same time quantum processes
(superposition of states, nonlocality, entanglement,) also remain mysterious,
yet are being harnessed in revolutionary information technologies (quantum
computation, quantum cryptography and quantum teleportation.)
A relation between consciousness and quantum effects has been pondered for
nearly a century, and in the past decades quantum processes in the brain
have been invoked as explanations for consciousness and its enigmatic features.
Critics deride this comparison as a mere "minimization of mysteries" and
quickly point out that the brain is too warm for quantum computation, which
in the technological realm requires extreme cold to avoid "decoherence" (i.e.
the loss of seemingly delicate quantum states by interaction with the environment.)
However quantum computation would surely be advantageous from an evolutionary
perspective, and biology has had 4 billion years to solve the decoherence
problem and evolve quantum mechanisms. Furthermore, recent experimental evidence
indicates quantum non-locality occurring in conscious and subconscious brain
function, and functional quantum processes in molecular biology are becoming
more and more apparent.
Much like study of the brain's synaptic connections promoted artificial neural
networks in the 1980's, appreciation of biological quantum information processing
may promote quantum information technology. Moreover, macroscopic quantum
processes are being proposed as intrinsic features in cosmology, evolution
and social interactions.
Following the first "Quantum Mind" conference held in Flagstaff at Northern
Arizona University in 1999, "Quantum Mind 2003" will update current status
and future directions, and provide dialog with skeptical criticism of the
proposed synthesis of quantum information science and the brain.
Confirmed speakers include:
Sir Roger Penrose, Paul Benioff, Henry Stapp, Guenter Mahler, Mae Wan Ho,
Paavo Pylkkanen, Harald Walach, Jiri Wackerman, Jack Tuszynski, Dick Bierman,
Koichiro Matsuno, Stuart Hameroff, Nancy Woolf, Scott Hagan, Paola Zizzi,
Alexander Wendt, Jeffrey Satinover, Roeland van Wijk, Guenter Albrecht-Buehler,
Ken Augustyn, Sisir Roy, Menas Kafatos, Hartmann Roemer and E. Roy John
Submitted abstracts will be considered for Plenary Talks, Short Talks or
Posters. Deadline for abstract submission is December 1, 2002.
Topics:
* Quantum models of consciousness
* Quantum information science
* Decoherence, anti-decoherence and topological quantum error correction
* Cosmology and consciousness
* Protein, cytoskeletal and DNA dynamics
* Time: physics and perception
* Nonlocality and entanglement between macro-systems: experimental evidence
* Quantum mind and social science
* Skeptical criticism
For further information including abstract submission, registration and lodging
see www.consciousness.arizona.edu/quantum-mind2
Sponsored by
Center for Consciousness Studies, The University of Arizona;
The Fetzer Institute; The YeTaDeL Foundation;
The Samueli Institute for Information Biology;
School of Computational Science, George Mason University;
Mind Science Foundation
Dear Colleagues:
I think we can all be proud of the last issue of JNLRMI. This is really cutting
edge research and theory, but it is a shame that it is not reaching a wider
audience.
My paper "Scientific Validation of Planetary Consciousnes" raised a
great many more questions than it answered. The experimental paradigm holds a
great deal of promise. The paper contains two studies but it is not very clear
what the details of the second study were as the data are presented without
detailed explanation. The second study was essentially a replication of the
first using a slightly different paradigm. The standard auditory oddball
paradigm for ERPs was used, and the data from two trials (Figures 2 and 3) were
very highly correlated on single factor ANOVA. The data were also very highly
correlated with the data from Figure 1, despite a difference in the P300/N300
between the two paradigms.
The core hypothesis, generated years ago, that was tested was the idea that we
all, in fact, share a single mind at the unconscious level, and that we are all
in effect Elohim, creators of our planetary reality. So, in principle, the
studies could be done using two observers located at any remote locations. This
is the One Mind Model, which is generalized to the level of Universal
Consciousness. Planetary consciousness is a relational phenomenon of the society
of minds that populate the earth, and is entangled with the geophysical and
biological evolution of the earth.
Although I have replicated these results, it does not appear that anyone else
has even attempted to do so. I originally prepared a book with these results
called "The Evolution of Planetary Consciousness," which was to be
published as a special issue of the Journal of General Evolution but was
rejected by the editor, Ervin Laszlo, after its completion. The experiments were
part of the research effort of the Club of Budapest, of which Ervin Laszlo was
editor and founder. The grant proposal was rejected by the Fetzer Institute and
the completed study was rejected by the Club of Budapest itself after I was
stripped of my title in the Club as Director of Field Research. So much for the
politics of Planetary Consciousness.
The extinction of Homo sapiens sapiens is a very real possibility if we are
unable to negotiate the consciousness of our One Mind. Our genetic diversity is
such that a single virus could lead to our extinction.
Best regards,
Mark Germine
1. World T'ai Chi & Qigong Day Update
From: Bill Douglas
