Comment Think again (Score 2, Interesting) 363
Some prominent quantum physicists -- including Von Neumann, the founder of Quantum Mechanics -- believed that consciousness plays the key role in the outcome of quantum events ("collapse of the wave function"). Your macro world is built from quantum elements, whether their fuzziness disappears at the macro level or not (we don't know). Today's science has no idea what consciousness is or how to measure it.
Given all that, is it really that ridiculous to try and see if there are any subtle effects of what we call consciousness on the macro world?
Like much of any religion, bad science is full of zealotry and fundamentalist attacking of anyone daring to question the dogma, the "implied" truth, the "what we believe in our heart" is truth -- in this case, that consciousness does nothing and there's no such thing as ESP.
Good science would be glad to see a few labs like this one running, occasionally offering to review their results and suggest improvements in methodology.
Given all that, is it really that ridiculous to try and see if there are any subtle effects of what we call consciousness on the macro world?
Like much of any religion, bad science is full of zealotry and fundamentalist attacking of anyone daring to question the dogma, the "implied" truth, the "what we believe in our heart" is truth -- in this case, that consciousness does nothing and there's no such thing as ESP.
Good science would be glad to see a few labs like this one running, occasionally offering to review their results and suggest improvements in methodology.
