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psycheworks 8 June 7
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Awesome! I tweeted the link.

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Another load of shite. You think you understand quantum entanglement? You just lookin' at the pictures. FIRST learn the maths you need to get your head around this topic.

Have a look at Leonard Susskind's excellent series of lectures from Stanford. All free on YouTube. Only take you a few dozen hours assuming you start from 101. Don't try to keep up with him on the chocolate biscuits.

THEN you can discuss delayed quantum erasure in your parlour.

Don't even know what 'parlour' means dooya? [Now you do!]

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A human is a bit smarter than a chimp and the chimp from a monkey and the monkey from a dog and on and on till we get to very primitive creatures that have very small brains. Does an insect's mind exist in a different dimension. At what point in the evolutionary tree does it? Come up with a way to find that link and work up. Me I think it would be a huge waste of time and resource but not much more that this "theory" because this isn't a scientific theory but simply a crazy idea , and should be given about as much credence.

gearl Level 8 June 7, 2018

We are monkeys. We are part of a clade which is a part of their/our clade. You cannot delete your ancestors. There is nothing which describes a monkey which doesn't describe you.

This was brought home to me when a female green monkey stole some peanuts from my hand and two male green monkeys and I reacted in the same way. There was no thought involved - just outrage. I would like to think that, in some way, I am superior to a monkey - but I'm not.

Just two thoughts:

  1. Why are female monkeys and female humans so similar?

  2. Why is there no flat Mars society?

It may be an understanding that has enabled Australian First Nations People to successfully survive for 50,000 years in an hostile environment.

@FrayedBear That may very well be true but at this point in time perhaps we all need a new understanding, one based on evidence.

@gearl 50,000 years of survival is not evidence? White men couldn't do it and even with today's technology frequently get themselves killed.

@El-loco Aha! An opening for a new and lucrative enterprise - The Flat Planets Society

@FrayedBear They didn't survive in a hostile environment. Not till we turned up.

@El-loco Have you tried surviving in desert with 45°C day temperature 3°C nightime, no rivers, no trees, no guns, bow and arrows, no horses cars or shoes? That is a daily temperature variance of nearly 108° Fahrenheit. It seems from reading many current comments that many cannot survive 90°Fahrenheit maximum without needing air conditioning. You consider that not to be hostile?

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Fundamental maths, what is two fifths of 60 ? You have an hour to reply,, a ten year old English student will answer this in less than a minute, so do not cheat

And having answered in approximately ten seconds it proves what? I learnt elementary math?

@FrayedBear ... or that you learned your 12 times table, perhaps. ..... or maybe that you know that two fifths is the same as 40%, ..... or that you have 6 fingers on each hand .... or that you can use the internet to search, .... etc. 😉

@Petter please tell me (pm) what the next item was that I wrote comment on that you gave the thumbs up on. These days nearly everything that I comment on that gets others giving the ? gets deleted. Is it me, you or someone following you?

@Petter No, I didn't go into %ages just 12x table

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If our brain (or mind) is interacting with other parts of the cosmos why are we studying Mars and other places in space with robots and cameras? We could just lay down and go there remotely in our minds and learn everything.

What constitutes evidence? Something a whole lot better than this.

According to secret government whistle-blowers, our government has been doing "remote viewing" since WW ll when they got the advanced alien tech from the Germans. Plus even many psychic people can do this. Even I have teleported on many occasions, often with my husband. We'd start driving toward a city three hours away and suddenly we'd see the exit sign.

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I can agree that our minds are different in kind from the neural firings, the nervous system and all the physical aspects of our organism.

Maybe that difference is explainable, but I'm not sure it is explainable as a sort of quantum effect. That would have to be demonstrated.

cava Level 7 June 7, 2018
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Reads to me a bit like the claims originally made for radium as the new wonder health drug,
or the effects of the newly created ultra-powerful magnets being able to purify your blood,
or for crystals harmonising with your body's natural rhythm when it was discovered that crystals have a natural resonance.
Now it's quantum entanglement, is it?

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Indeed. I saw it the other week. It was crass, stupid, puerile, smart, clever, and laugh-out-loud funny.

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So when I can't remember something I know I know....it is just a bad connection?

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A little pseudo stretching there. These are thought experiments nearly impossible to prove until you can measure stuff or make experiments and actually hypothesize. Yes, It is thought that brain computations and, maybe consciousness, create and exist as a quantum field but not in another dimension. Research has determined that photosynthesis is a quantum process. More biomolecular reactions like DNA synthesis appear to have quantum signatures so it is logical to think that brain computation could use a similar process considering the potential power of quantum computers vs the brain. All that has nothing to do with other dimensions or black hole... that's the woo that has not been investigated (and probably cannot be proven).

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So if this would ring true would your mind be limited to existing in just one dimension and not many and if that rang true can we not contact other dimensional creatures. The next problem is can we not talk telepathy? This guy has got some good drugs and should share so the rest of us can have transcendental experiences.

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This makes my brain hurt... in another dimension.

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Over my head.

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So that's where Trumps Brain is!

Coldo Level 8 June 7, 2018
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And this makes a difference to me How?

Don't worry..I've found that most women have little interest in quantum physics.

Is that "how" or "now"?
??

@FrayedBear parts have been deleted, there was a reply to someone who has wisely fled the scene after a very condescending comment......no balls, I guess....it is indeed "how"

@AnneWimsey I ask the "now" because short of enabling our sudden ability to longevity to the mythical age of 985 I would doubt that at this time of life it has any "now" significance.

@FrayedBear TA!

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