From: sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti)
Subject: Contact!
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:16:02 GMT


On the Mind-Matter Interaction
by Jack Sarfatti, Ph.D.

The connection between mind and matter is not a problem restricted to
philosophy and theology. It is a problem for new physics. Indeed, it may be
the fundamental problem for the new post-Einsteinian physics of quantum
connectivity beyond the confines of space and time.

The new physics is the telepathic physics of "The Force" without force
portrayed in the film "Star Wars". It is the Physics of Destiny. It is the
source of meaning. It is the generator of existence in a universe of
purpose uniting Man with God.

The new physics provides the beginnings of a paradigm for wholistic
medicine.  It provides ideas on how disease develops, how drugs work, how
electromagnetic machines influence health, how the body influences the mind
and how the mind influences the body.

Today we use our fingers to type messages into a computer.  This is
changing rapidly. We already have programs that respond to our voice
commands. We are beginning to develop programs coupled with sensitive
electromagnetic detectors that allow computers to respond to our tiny eye
movements. Soon the computers will respond to the electromagnetic
radiations from our brains that correspond to our thoughts.  The computer
will obey the commands of our unvoiced thoughts.  It will work both ways.
The computer will be able to generate thoughts, feelings and experiences
directly into our conscious and unconscious minds without audio and video
outputs.  This new "psychotronic" technology will, like any new technology,
have the potential for healing and harming.

How is the new physics different from the old physics?  The basic
difference is in that complex of connected ideas represented by the words:
"signal", "communication", "information", "meaning" and "value". Old
physics assumes that causes are always before their effects, and that the
only way to transfer information is by moving matter or radiation. New
physics permits causes to be after their effects under certain condition.
When an effect happens, the several causes of that effect are both in its
past and in its future. There is also a third possibility. A cause of the
effect can be faster-than-light  in Einstein's "absolute elsewhere" of that
effect. New physics also says that there are two modes of information
transfer. The first is the old physics mode, in which the information is
transferred by a carrier within Einstein's unified spacetime. The carrier
is either radiation or matter in motion (e.g., a radio or TV signal, a
sound wave packet, a courier etc.).

The second mode of information transfer is telepathic,
clairvoyant,psychokinetic and precognitive, alien to old physics but
familiar to prophets, mystics, poets and artists. It is communication on
the "nonlocal" quantum connection "beyond spacetime".  There is no single
direct carrier of matter or radiation moving directly from sender to
receiver. There are, however, two indirect connected carriers moving from a
third "source" to sender and receiver, respectively. Under certain
conditions called "delayed choice" the sender of information can be in the
far future of the receiver of that information.  It is in this sense that
we think of The Force without force or "La Forza del Destino".

The Princeton University Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratory under
the former Dean of the Engineering College, Robert Jahn, claims that the
human mind has this "precognitive remote-viewing" ability. The "skeptics"
(e.g., former Scientific American columnist Martin Gardner's Committee to
Investigate Claims of the Paranormal), who only believe old physics, claim
that Dr. Jahn is misinterpreting is results with bad statistics. However, a
late station chief of the American Central Intelligence Agency assured me
that he had used "remote viewing" very successfully in covert operations
inside the Soviet Union during the peak of the Cold War. If Martin
Gardner's real motive is to hide the reality of remote viewing for reasons
of "national security", then he would naturally wish to debunk it.  The
American Army has published positive reports of "psychic warfare" in
several professional journals like Miltary Review and Signal.  The gossip
is that Martin Gardner and the arch-debunker, "The Amazing Randi" take
psychic phenomena very seriously. That is why they came down so hard on Uri
Geller because they believe him to be an imposter - a stage magician in
psychic clothes. It is certainly true that Randi can do everything that
Geller can do. It is also true that Geller fails rigorous tests set up by
other stage magicians. On the other hand, I saw topologically intricate
twisted metal allegedly bent by psychics in Brazil that is very puzzling.
The reader should form his own opinion. As a scientist, I do not have an
opinion on the reality of psychokinetic metal-bending at this point in
time.

We must be more precise about telepathic information transfer on the
quantum connection. The quantum connection was discovered by Einstein in
the early 1930's in his debate with Bohr on the completeness of the new
quantum mechanics of quantum jumping electrons (in atoms, molecules and
crystals) emitting and absorbing photons. Both electrons and photons, under
certain experimental conditions, behaved like tiny particles, while
behaving as spread-out waves under different incompatible experimental
conditions.  All quantum particles obeyed the Heisenberg uncertainty
principle. This principle asserts that observable properties of the
particle like its position and its momentum were incompatible. That is, an
increase in the precision of our measurement of one property would decrease
the precision in a simultaneous measurement of the other incompatible
property.  This was something new, not found in Newton's classical
mechanics of gravitational or electromagnetic forces causing particles to
accelerate (i.e. change speed or direction or both).

Einstein thought about a simple molecule that split into two atoms that
flew away from each other in opposite direction. He showed that the
Heisenberg uncertainty principle for one of the atoms could not be true
unless there was a real quantum connection or an "action at a distance"
between the two atoms. This long-range connection was qualitatively
different from from the known long-range forces of gravitation and
electromagnetism. The known forces weaken with increasing separation
between the two particles. Quite the contrary is the case for the quantum
connection which persists undiminished with increasing separation in either
space or time. Einstein called this "telepathic" and "spooky action at a
distance". Quantum mechanics seems to open the door to a precise
mathematical voodoo, i.e., embracing or "entangled" quantum
"wavefunctions".

An experiment by Alain Aspect at the University of Paris in 1982 on a pair
of photons emitted in opposite directions by a calcium atom shows
conclusively that such a theoretically predicted faster-than-light quantum
connection is real.  There is a "loophole" that must be plugged when more
efficient photon detectors become available. To really be sure the photon
detectors must be at least 83% efficient. Aspect's detectors are
considerably less efficient. However, the extremely good agreement between
the experimental data and the theoretical curve of standard quantum
mechanics makes most experts quite confident that the loophole when plugged
will not overturn Aspect's result.

We must however be clear that Aspect's discovery is not sufficient to
establish the factuality of useful faster-than-light communication in which
the quantum connection is a communication channel. A communication channel
means that we must be able to encode a message at the sender and to decode
it at the receiver.  In Aspect's experiment it is easy to encode the
message but it is impossible to decode it by observations at the receiver
alone. One must compare or "correlate" the observations from both the
receiver and the sender in order to decode the message. This, unfortunately
defeats the purpose. On the other hand, this observed quantum connectedness
may be vital in understanding the coherent behavior of complex living
systems. There is little doubt that a deeper understanding of the webs of
quantum connectivity between widely separated spinning electrons on DNA and
enzymes will lead to more effective medicine in the battle against disease
and aging. It will also lead to a new psychotronic nano-technology
interfacing mind to machine including new healing therapies.