Een kritische kijk op dit onderzoek kan geen kwaad. Klakkeloos overnemen zonder sceptisch te zijn is niet wetenschappelijk.
Standaard verwerpen is ook niet wetenschappelijk.
Enkele uitspraken van het Global Consiousness Project:
"While it is possible to draw some scientific conclusions from the analyses in hand at this time (early 2005) they must remain tentative."
"The purpose of this project is to examine subtle correlations that appear to to reflect the role of consciousness in the world. The scientific work is at the margins of our understanding, and our view is enriched by a creative and poetic perspective"
"It appears that the domain for most of the effective variables is not physics but psychology, not matter but mind. So counting the events or measuring the speed are not relevant unless the counts and measures are in the non-physical realms we usually leave to poets and musicians."
Beetje raar om hier uit te concluderen dat de geest buiten het lichaam kan treden vind je niet?
Gelukkig wordt dat ook niet geconcludeerd.
Wel dank voor die quotes van jou, waarin wederom staat dat het de geest is die de meeste effectieve variabelen bevat. Beetje vreemd om dan juist het tegenovergestelde te denken he?
Wetenschappelijk bewijs is niet te vinden op de website en zal ook niet geproduceerd kunnen worden ben ik bang. Het idee is wel grappig maar bestaat alleen in het hoofd van Rodger Nelson.
Alleen in het hoofd van Roger Nelson?
En wat zijn deze stukjes dan:
Although many would consider the project's aims to be little more than fools' gold, it has still attracted a roster of 75 respected scientists from 41 different nations. Researchers from Princeton - where Einstein spent much of his career - work alongside scientists from universities in Britain, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany. The project is also the most rigorous and longest-running investigation ever into the potential powers of the paranormal.
'Very often paranormal phenomena evaporate if you study them for long enough,' says physicist Dick Bierman of the University of Amsterdam. 'But this is not happening with the Global Consciousness Project. The effect is real.
The project has its roots in the extraordinary work of Professor Robert Jahn of Princeton University during the late 1970s.
So, in 1998, he gathered together scientists from all over the world to analyse his findings. They, too, were stumped and resolved to extend and deepen the work of Prof Jahn and Dr Nelson. The Global Consciousness Project was born.
Professor Chris French, a psychologist and noted sceptic at Goldsmiths College in London, says: 'The Global Consciousness Project has generated some very intriguing results that cannot be readily dismissed.
Dr John Hartwell, working at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, was the first to uncover evidence that people could sense the future. In the mid-1970s he hooked people up to hospital scanning machines so that he could study their brainwave patterns.
But it was to be another 15 years before anyone else took Dr Hartwell's work further when Dean Radin, a researcher working in America, connected people up to a machine that measured their skin's resistance to electricity.
Volgens mij heb jij het artikel niet eens gelezen.
Ook hier zullen niet veel wetenschappers waarde aan hechten en zeg nou niet dat dit het zelfde verhaal is als Galileo en dat de aarde nog plat zou zijn als iedereen zo sceptisch zou zijn als mij
Zie mijn bovenstaand commentaar.
Vreemd dat jij 75 wetenschappers van verschillende universiteiten als 'niet veel wetenschappers' omschrijft.
En wat dacht je hiervan?
Dr John Hartwell, working at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, was the first to uncover evidence that people could sense the future. In the mid-1970s he hooked people up to hospital scanning machines so that he could study their brainwave patterns.
He began by showing them a sequence of provocative cartoon drawings.
When the pictures were shown, the machines registered the subject's brainwaves as they reacted strongly to the images before them. This was to be expected.
Far less easy to explain was the fact that in many cases, these dramatic patterns began to register a few seconds before each of the pictures were even flashed up.
It was as though Dr Hartwell's case studies were somehow seeing into the future, and detecting when the next shocking image would be shown next.
It was extraordinary - and seemingly inexplicable.
But it was to be another 15 years before anyone else took Dr Hartwell's work further when Dean Radin, a researcher working in America, connected people up to a machine that measured their skin's resistance to electricity. This is known to fluctuate in tandem with our moods - indeed, it's this principle that underlies many lie detectors.
Radin repeated Dr Hartwell's 'image response' experiments while measuring skin resistance. Again, people began reacting a few seconds before they were shown the provocative pictures. This was clearly impossible, or so he thought, so he kept on repeating the experiments. And he kept getting the same results.
'I didn't believe it either,' says Prof Bierman. 'So I also repeated the experiment myself and got the same results. I was shocked. After this I started to think more deeply about the nature of time.' To make matters even more intriguing, Prof Bierman says that other mainstream labs have now produced similar results but are yet to go public.
Laat me raden, je gaat nu weer beweren dat alle betrokken wetenschappers fraudeurs zijn en dat de Universiteit van Utrecht en Amsterdam 'slechte' wetenschappers in dienst hebben.
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