[extropy-chat] the culture of force

[scerir]

> If PK (Psychokinesis) is really true [...]
> that there must be some interaction (or force) 
> between mind and matter?
> Walter.

Or there is a (hidden) common cause which influences
both mind and matter :-) This is called 'conspiracy
principle', or 'superdeterminism', it depends.

It is difficult to believe, but it cannot be
excluded, the possibility that in the overlap
of the backward light-cones of 'mind' and of 
that piece of 'matter' you can find common
causes. 

In principle you can also find
common 'causes' in the overlap of forward
light-cones! Eg. when the dynamics is
time-symmetrical, eg. Nagasawa "dual"
"diffusion" Schroedinger eq., ABL time-symmetric
'two-state' formalism, etc.

The possible existence of a space-like separated 
'jammer' who can correlate or can influence (eg. 
in a random way) events in two space-like
separated regions, was also investigated.
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9508001
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0102083 

Not to mention the Heller & Sasin conjecture
(Int. Journ. of Theor. Physics, 38, 1619, (1999))
about the 'point-less' nature of space time
(nonlocality is pervasive, in there). And the 
El_Naschie-Castro-Nottale-etc. 'point-less' metric 
based on Fractal-Cantorian 'transfinite' space-time!
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0007224

Subtle is the Lord!

"candies" here
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/physics/0312115
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9511029
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0106103
http://rugth30.phys.rug.nl/dlm/
http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0205092
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0402103