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It still confounds me how this is not common sense among the scientific establishment already. It is can only be proven to a certain degree in the physical dimension of the Universe as we cannot sense or percieve higher frequency dimensions yet. Fascinating article!
Originally posted by dominicus
reply to post by ABeing
It still confounds me how this is not common sense among the scientific establishment already. It is can only be proven to a certain degree in the physical dimension of the Universe as we cannot sense or percieve higher frequency dimensions yet. Fascinating article!
That's because science began within the confines, limits, rules set by the mind, senses, and materialist based science. The original premise was that the only things that exist is that which they can observe objectively with their senses or instruments or with repeatable data, while rejecting any other notions.
This created a strict dogmatic materialist/realist era and movement within academia. Thankfully Quantum Physics tempered that, and keeps materialist science in check by saying, "we don't know yet what is possible, but here's what we know so far."
Only a fool says that what science currently knows is all there is, when we are daily uncovering new things, and Spiritual realities will be one of them, and will brilliantly revolutionize our world into what I am predicting will be an eventual United Utopia where we have easy access between the physical and spiritual reams, including direct access/line of communication to God/Infinity/Absolute/Tao/ETc
Originally posted by dominicus
reply to post by ABeing
It still confounds me how this is not common sense among the scientific establishment already. It is can only be proven to a certain degree in the physical dimension of the Universe as we cannot sense or percieve higher frequency dimensions yet. Fascinating article!
That's because science began within the confines, limits, rules set by the mind, senses, and materialist based science. The original premise was that the only things that exist is that which they can observe objectively with their senses or instruments or with repeatable data, while rejecting any other notions.
This created a strict dogmatic materialist/realist era and movement within academia. Thankfully Quantum Physics tempered that, and keeps materialist science in check by saying, "we don't know yet what is possible, but here's what we know so far."
Only a fool says that what science currently knows is all there is, when we are daily uncovering new things, and Spiritual realities will be one of them, and will brilliantly revolutionize our world into what I am predicting will be an eventual United Utopia where we have easy access between the physical and spiritual reams, including direct access/line of communication to God/Infinity/Absolute/Tao/ETc
Originally posted by Phage
Do any of you actually understand the experiment?
There was no communication of any sort involved. It was a variation on Pavlov's experiments with conditioned responses. The only difference being that the bell that Pavlov used was replaced by an electrical signal from the "leader" rat's brain. The leader was taught that it would get a reward by producing a certain "signal" from its brain (the "bell"). The "follower" rat was taught that it would get a reward if it performed a certain behavior after the "leader" rat rang the "bell". The leader had no intent, it acquired a conditioned response which elicited another conditioned response in the follower.
It's a really interesting behavioral conditioning experiment, but telepathy? No.
edit on 3/2/2013 by Phage because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Phage
Do any of you actually understand the experiment?
There was no communication of any sort involved. It was a variation on Pavlov's experiments with conditioned responses. The only difference being that the bell that Pavlov used was replaced by an electrical signal from the "leader" rat's brain. The leader was taught that it would get a reward by producing a certain "signal" from its brain (the "bell"). The "follower" rat was taught that it would get a reward if it performed a certain behavior after the "leader" rat rang the "bell". The leader had no intent, it acquired a conditioned response which elicited another conditioned response in the follower.
It's a really interesting behavioral conditioning experiment, but telepathy? No.
edit on 3/2/2013 by Phage because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by dominicus
Originally posted by Phage
Originally posted by Phage
Do any of you actually understand the experiment?
There was no communication of any sort involved. It was a variation on Pavlov's experiments with conditioned responses. The only difference being that the bell that Pavlov used was replaced by an electrical signal from the "leader" rat's brain. The leader was taught that it would get a reward by producing a certain "signal" from its brain (the "bell"). The "follower" rat was taught that it would get a reward if it performed a certain behavior after the "leader" rat rang the "bell". The leader had no intent, it acquired a conditioned response which elicited another conditioned response in the follower.
It's a really interesting behavioral conditioning experiment, but telepathy? No.
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I will post a really great reply courtesy of user "that972" on reddit, which has implications that dismiss your premise above. Add to that, the fact that this tech is brand new and still crude. One can only imagine where it will be a decade from now.
"It could be argued that the results reported here could have been obtained if prerecorded signals from encoder rats had been used to guide the behavior of the decoder rats. Qualitative and quantitative observation of the behavior of the animals reveals that this is not at all the case. In both motor and tactile BTBI sessions we observed drastic changes in the behavior of encoder and decoder rats as soon as they started to work as part of a dyad. Both encoder and decoder animals either made quick attempts to respond earlier or, conversely, they reduced their response rate or even stopped performing according to the dyad behavior."
"These overall changes in the dyad behavior, irrespective of their direction (e.g. increased or decreased latency), are a clear indicator that a fundamentally more complex system emerged from the operation of the BTBI; one which required considerable adaptation from the participant animals so that they could jointly perform the sensorimotor tasks."
"Fourth, our results showed that both encoder and decoder rats changed their behavior according to the dyad performance. This observation suggests that operation of a BTBI induces the establishment of a highly complex system, formed by a pair of interconnected brains. As such, this brain dyad behaved in a way that could not be predicted if only pre-recorded neural signals had been used for encoding purposes. We speculate that the description of the complex system generated by the dyad transferring information and collaborating in real time, will reveal fundamental properties about the neural basis of communication and social interactions"
So it seems that there is at least some evidence that the introduction of the feedback loop between the encoder and decoder animals causes a response that can be considered significantly different from a response that would be provoked by an "internet connected red light" if I am understanding your meaning correctly.