[extropy-chat] Physchogenic Fields (was Role of MWI and Time Travel)

[Samantha Atkins]

On May 30, 2006, at 2:14 PM, The Avantguardian wrote:

>
>> If you start talking about 'fields', then physicists
>> will want to see
>> the needle on a meter swinging when it encounters
>> one of your
>> 'fields'.
>
> Well there are EEG's, fMRI, and magnetoencephalographs
> all of which are picking up perturbations of the
> electromagnetic field in the presence of brains.
> Perhaps the psychogenic field is electromagnetic in
> nature. The questions then should be, "Are there
> characteristic differences between the EM fields
> surrounding conscious brains and those surrounding
> inanimate matter? If so what accounts for those
> differences?"
>

Activity in the brain.  DUH.

>> If it is an undetectable field, then it probably
>> only exists in your
>> imagination.
>
> Maybe so but radio waves were undetectable until Tesla
> and Marconi detected them. Detectability is dependent
> on 1. imagining something is there to detect and 2.
> building a device to detect it.
>

It is most dependent on something actually being there to detect.   
See "ether".

- samantha