a Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200180001-2 1. FOUNDATTONS OF PARAPHYSICAL AIM PAPAPSYCHOLOGICAL PHENOMENA, a a eR el Evan Harris Walker, BRL, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland. “SUMMARY: The oral talk consisted only of an outline summary of ideas and results: Study of a written version (69 pages) of this tal’: together with previous papers referenced therein is required to evaluate the thinking of Dr. Walker. The written version of this talk explains a theory of psi phenomena resting upon several foundations: 1. A theory of consciousness developed by Dr, Walker (referenced but not explained) in which triggering of nerve synopses is influenced by . Single quantum-level processes, and in which there are computed 3 hee basic rates of data processing in the brain, a.) Subconscious data rate 2.4(10)"* bits/sec. a | - b.) Conscious deta rate 7,5(10)" bits/sec. - c.) Attention set or "will" dota rate 3(10)* bits/sec. 2, The notion of "hidden variables" in quantum theory, These "hidden variables" ore not present in standard quentum theory, end are called "hidden" because they are inaccessible to direct measurement. There is no experimental verification of necessity for such variables, but they have boon conjectured solely for philosophical sr logical motives. The roll of these variables is to fix the precise outcome of @ quan— tim event (or measurement), an outcone which in standard quantum theory is only determined in terms of its probability. The outcome of a quan= tum event must be the same for all observers regardless of location or time lapse, so thidden variables" potentially provide a communica~ tion channel independent of space and time. Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200180001-2
Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200180001-2 Me 3. The assertion that the attention set or "will" data rate in the brain is the rate at which "hidden variable"~governed quantum processes are influencing the mind, or at which the mind can influence quantum proc= esses, Such a mind-mind or mind-object link provides a "hidden var- iable" theory of psi phenomena, suitable for telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and PK, | | Since according to this theory the "will" or paranormal data rate, 3(10)* bits/sec, is a very small fraction of the conscious data rate, 7.5(10e bits/sec, the rarity of paranormal cognition is explained. Assuming a perceptive cue may occur at random from either data rate permits a calculation of the incidence of psi ability in an individual or a population. Fair agreement results, A detailed calculation is presented of the effect of quantum uncertainties in the initial position and velocity of a cubical die which bounces down an inclined plane. This experimental situation amplifies initial quantum uncer— tainties into macroscopic differences in the final position of the die, The results of PK placement experiments on rolling dice are consistent with these calculations, lending credence to the belief that PK operates by resolving quantum uncertainty. CRITIQUE: 1. The somewhat dubious contention that the triggering of nerve synapses is a quantum process requires more substantiation. The author's arm guments leading to this contention, though published or reported, are not readily accessible. A like statement applies to his caleuletion and interpretation of the three fundamental data rates in the brain, All the author's ideas form an interlocking system which has evolved over several years, ‘To secure acceptance, or even objective consid- Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200180001-2
Re 3.0 12 Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200180001-2 eration, these thoughts should be combined into a Single, concise, and self-contained presentation, which the present paper is not, Hidden variables are controversial and by no means form a part of ae cepted physical theory. No compelling physical evidence requires then, unless psi phenomena itself constitutes such evidence. Invocation of physical hidden variables for a theory of consciousness is a radical assumption, justifiable only by successful results. The theory has not yet predicted anything. The calculations of the incidence of psi ability, and of the influence of quantum uncertain- ties upon dice rolling, show consistency with experiment but do not test the fundamental assumptions of the theory. the former calcula- tion depends only upon a single number (the ratio 1:10"), and the latter is a physical calculation. — | Regardless of its validity, Dr. Walker's theory is the most explicit, detailed, and quantitative theory of psi phenomena presented at this conference; though perhaps not the most fundamental. Unlike some of the other papers its contents are sufficiently explicit to permit de- tadled criticism and evaluation, and to at least offer some possibil= ities of experimental assessuent. Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200180001-2
13 Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200180001-2 PRECOGNITIONSA MEMORY OF THINGS FyTUnE? Gerald Feinberg, Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York. SUMMARY: The sugrestion is advaneed that. precognition may be knowledge of a future state of the percipient's mind rather than prior knowledge of an objective state of the physical world. Thus, like memory where the past state of the mind is recalled, precognition is perception of a future state of the mind. Professor Feinberg notes that the theory of electromagnetic radiation, and _ other physical theories, in principle permits both time retarded and time ad- vanced solutions, The time advanced solutions which propagate information from future to past are customarily excluded for the reason that they have not been observed experimentally. The possibility exists of some small admixture of time advanced solution together with the dominant time retarded solution, In the case of electromagnetic theory experiments sre presently testing this pos- sibility to the accuracy of one part in 107, If one assumes that the mechanism of memory whatever it may be, likewise permits ¢ a ema admixture of time advanced solutions as well as the usual time retarded ones which we call memory, we have the phenomena of occasional pre- cognition based upon perception of a future state of the mind. Precognition of events is possible only if the percipient learns of the event at some time in the future. These speculations would receive experimental substantiation if precog- nition is influenced by the same factors as influence memory. CRITIQUE: Basically a trivial paper, containing one idea expressed in the title, ta Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200180001-2
14 Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200180001-2 ‘ torether with some standard physics which is only related to psi phenomena by virtue of a strained analogy between electromagnetic radiation and memory processes, Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200180001-2
Be Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200180001-2 PARAPSYCHOLOGY, QUANTIM LOGEC AND CNRONATTON TORY C.T.K. Chari, Madras Christian College, Madras, India ( Professor Chari did not attend the conference. His paper was read by Harold Puthof?f. ) SUMMARY : In addition to three types of conventional biological information; 1.) gen netic, 2.) environmentally conditioned, and 3.) symbolic and recorded communi~ cation; the author postulates a 4tn type of information network, the psi~net- work, The logic of this network would be non-BooLean. Understanding the psi network may require use of recently proposed concepts in the quantum theory of measurement and in information theory, CRITIQUE: A paper written in the context of philosophy and formal logic without, however, a cleax internal organization. Tt provides no theory clear enough for experimental verification or further develooment. The principal value of the paper is its numerous citations of recent work in the philosophy of quan- tum mechanics and in information theory, Indeed this paper reads like an over- abbreviated review article. Since C,T.K. Chari did not attend the conference he read advanced drafts of some of the presented papers and submitted a written version of his reace tions to then. entitled: An Indian Parapsychologist's Reactions to the Geneva Conference on "Quantum Physics and Parapsychology" Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200180001-2
; 16 Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200180001-2 he QUANTUM PARADOXES AND ARTSTOTLE'S TWOFOLD INFORMATION CONCEPT 0. Costa de Beauregard, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France SUMMARY: | . | | _ The problems of relativity, time reversibility, and entropy increase lead to consideration of measurement processes in the context of information theory. <A measurement process by which information is acquired produces an inereage in entropy, since negative entropy must be supplied equal to or greater than the information acquired. Such a process is a learning or a perceptual process, An entropy increasing process is dissipative, and’ dissipation is a requirement of macroscopic causality in the normal sense of past determining the future or, equivalently, retarded waves. The author proposes the reverse process ( an ordering process) whereby pre-existing information is converted into order, a process which occurs whenever any conceptual scheme is actualized to produce macroscopic order. Ordering decroases entropy. An entropy decreasing process is the reverse of dissipative and implies macroscopic acausality (or finality) in the sense of the future situation determining the past, _ or advanced waves. Both processes, which were foreshadowed in Aristotle's thinking, can be represented by the two chains of equivalence: 4 Measurement—» Information Information=-~ Ordering Entropy Increase Entropy Decrease Dissipation . Anti-Dissipation Causality . . Finality Retarded Wave oo | Advanced Waves Past to Future Future to Past Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200180001 -2
17 Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200180001-2 Although de facto the first column predominates in natural macroscopic processes, the inverse process of the second column is a@ theoretical possibility and indeed must also occur. At the microscopic level of elementary quantum processes one might expect a symmetry between the two columns, similar to the other symmetries of microscopic physics ( time reversal, charge conjugation, etc.). Since probability plays a central role in quantum theory, the two types of process depending respectively on increasing and decreasing order, have tight consequences. Some of these are PK by use of coreious information to control a quantum process, and telepathy by the linked outcome of quantum measuring processes. Basically these considerations are summarized in the statement that the wave function of quantum mechanics propagates probabilities. It is not a physical field which propagates, but rather an information field. CRITIQUE: | ‘Though scarcely providing an explicit theory, this paper hews closely to established physical.understanding. It provides a theoretical framework which not only may connect observed ESP effects with quantum mechanics, but which also places ESP in the very general context of information theory. Whatever else it may be or may involve, ESP does deal with information. In addition the paper points up how information theory may underlie some very deep physical principles. This is a provocative paper, perhaps the most profound physical discussion at the conference. It may perhaps formulate a general foundation upon which could be built an intelligible physical theory of ESP, Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200180001-2
De 18 Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200180001-2 LIFE AND QUANTUM PHYSTCS V.A. Firsoff, Royal Astronomical Society, London, England SUMMARY: This paper uses the ideas expressed by Monod (Jacques Monod, Chance and Necessity, 1972 ) as a framework for expounding the theme that mental proc- esses have a fundamental role in nature which cennot be understood on the basis | of classical mechanism, logic of the excluded middle, cyhernetic models, or any other conventional ways of thinking. Numerous illustrative examples are cited to support this assertion, Life is too rare and strange a phenomenon to be explicable in terms of statisticesl probability. Its characteristics of genetic invariance coupled with dynamic evolution Sdaptability indicate a di- rective force of mental type. Visual perception may use only a few photons, and neural processes in the brain are sufficiently sensitive. to respond to quantum effects, In turn PK experiments have demonstrated mental influence upon radioactive decay, a quantum process, Thus there is a deep, and not understood, connection between Life, mental processes, and quantum physics, CRITIQUE: - Not precisely an objective paper, but rather expressive of the author's sense of awe and wonderment at the mysteries of nature, citing examples of in~ explicable processes, and weaving some possible general implications from them. Basically a philosophicel essey, more Lucid than many, but offering no testable hypotheses nor firm points of departure for subsequent analysis. Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200180001-2
7. 19. Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200180001-2 PHYSICS, ENTROPY AND PSYCHOKENESTS a ats Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ, SRI, Menlo Park, California REMOTE VIEWING OF NATURAL TARGETS Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff, SRI, Menlo Park, California SUMMARY: Both of these papers describe experimental tests with gifted paragnosts. The first describes PK experiments influencing sophisticated physical instru- ments, and the second describes extrasensory perception of remote targets in such detail as to imply high rates of data transmission. No detailed summary is necessary since the papers ere experimental and the descrintions are clear. Some general features of PK and speculations about its nature are given in the first paper, to wit: 1. PK phenomena are close to noise level and appear to derive their en- erry from mobilization of random thermal energy. 2. Results seem to appear as a vesult of coincidence rather than of specific cause. | 3. PK-phenomena are intrinsically spontaneous and hard to produce on cue. 4. Close control and observation inhibit the phenomena, | 5. Phenomena are knowm to occur on the microscopic quantum level. which are similar to observed PK phenomena. CRITIQUE: \ Belief in the experimental results depends upon confidence in the intes rity and skill of the experimenters. The results described, if valid, estab- lish the existence of tho phenomena and are a first step toward establishing its vatterns. Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200180001-2
Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200180001-2 ‘ Some of the features ebserved are compatible with the general ideas ex- pressed in the paper of Professor Beauregard. Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200180001-2
aL Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200180001-2 8. PARAPSYCHOLOGY AS AN ANALY TICAT—DEDUCTIVE SOLENCE J.H.M. Whiteman, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa SUMMARY: Iam utterly unable to understand this paper. It appears to outline a | complete logical-mathematical system, which is also expressive of an entire “philosophy or world view sufficiently rich in structure to permit parapsychol- ogy end much else besides. CRITIQUE: | I am neither a philosopher nor a logician, but as a physicist I doubt whether such artificial constructs, however beantifully articulated, are fruit ful unless narrowly constrained by experimental fact. Such is apparently not . the case here, ‘Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200180001-2
i 9. Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200180001-2 A LOGICATLY CONSISTENT MODEL OF A NORLD WITH PST INTERACTION Helmut Schmidt, The Institute for Parapsychology, Durham, North Carolina » > SUMMARY: An empirical description of psi phenomena is proposed wherein a psi source strength is defined ag a multiplicative factor applied to the ratio of apriori probabilities for random events. Thus psi can change relative probabilities of events, Different experiments can be conceived as chains of random events, and whether an event occurs in the chain or not can depend upon previous events in the chain. Various experimental structures are proposed which could serve to test the consistency of this model. Psi sources could be superimposed to test the linear addition of weak psi effects, multiple stimlation of the psi source ( an anima te object ) could be tested, and various logical connectivities can be consiimeted to test equivalence or PK, precognition, ete, _ CRITIQUE: This empirical approach to the quantification of psi effects is moti- vated by Dre Schmidt's successful experiments in the psi control of random quantum events. “The approach furnishes no deep mechanism or understanding, . but can be very valuable for sorting the logical consistency of models, Whether these specific ideas prove consistent by surviving further experimen- tal checks or not, the general approach of empirical quantification in the context of a simple logical structure seems quite appropriate and reasonable at the present stage of understanding of psi phenomena. Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200180001-2
23 Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200180001-2 10, CONNECTIONS BETUREY EVENTS TN TE CONTEC OF TTS cOMBTHATTONAL MODEL FOR A QUANTIM PRoczss Ted Bastin, Cambridce Language Research Unit, Cambridge, Eneland SUMMARY: This paper refers to, but does not describe in detail, a mathematical structure which is under development by the author. The mathematical model has as its object, nothing less than attainment of a fundamental theory under lying all objects and phenomena. It hopes to derive such things as elementary particles and their characteristics, as well as the very structure of space and time, Despite the occasional mention in the paper of more conventional physical ideas, the chain of speculative logic remains obscure. Little ex plicit mention is made of parapsychology. _CRITIQUE: This paper is so confusing to the reader as to prevent any e*fective evaluation, other than to record the impression that such speculations are not only disorganized but very remote from conventional physical theory. Their relation to. parapsychology is at present extremely tenuous, although the au~ thor's interest in porapsycholosy may provide part of the ultimate motivation for his thinking. NOTE: At the conference Dr. Bastin cireulated a paper, without permitting copies of it to be made. This paper, arthored hy Hasted, Dohm, Bastin, and O'Reran and dated June ??, ly?A, was a narrative description of experiments with Uri Geller, Celler's ability to modify counts of a Geiger counter (perhaps by control of electrical currents in the counter shell), to bend spoons, and to bend molybdenum disks is reported. Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200180001-2
Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200180001-2 PARTICIPANTS Tep Bastin, Cambridge Language Research Unit Cambridge, England CG. T. K. Guari, Madras Christian College Madras, India O. Costa pe Beaurecarn, Institut Henri Poincaré Paris, France GERALD Frinperc, Columbia University New York, U.S.A. V.A. Virnsorr, Royal Astronomical Society London, England Haroip Puruorr, Stanford Research Institute Menlo Park, California, U.S.A. Hev_mur Scumipt, The Institute for Parapsychology ’ Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A, ’ Russe, Tare, Stanford Research Institute Menlo Park, California, U:S.A. Evan Harris WaLker, Ballistic Research Laboratories Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, U.S.A. J. . M. Wurreman, University of Cape Town Cape Town, South Africa OBSERVERS Artuur Korst sr, London, England Emitio Srervapio, Rome, Italy Cyarves Panati, New York, U.S.A. PARAPSYCHOLOGY FOUNDATION, ING. EmrEN Coity—President \ . ALLAN ANGoFrr—Chairman Domestic and International Programs Ronerr R. Cony—Admministrative Secretary Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200180001-2 PROGRAM 23RD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE La Reserve, Geneva, Switzerland August 26-27, 1974 QUANTUM PHYSICS AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY PARAPSYCHOLOGY FOUNDATION, INC. 29 West 57th Street, New York, N. Y. 10019
DAY ONE—Menday, August 26 9:00 aA.. 9:15. Am. 10:15 as. 11:15 a.m. 11:30 am, 12:30-2:45 2t45 PM. 3:45 PM. 4:45 pm. Introduction Allan Angoff Greetings Eileen Coly “Foundations of Paraphysical and Parapsychological Phenomena” Evan Ilarris Walker “Precognition—-A Memory of Things Future?” Gerald Feinberg Intermission “Parapsychology, Quantum Logic and Information C. T. K. Chari (Read by Harold Puthoff) Theory” P.M. Recess—--Lunch “Quantum Paradoxes and Aristotle’s Twofold Information Concept” , QO. Costa de Beauregard “Life and Quantum Physics” V. A. Firsoff Recess—Refreshments DAY TWO—Tuesday, August 27 9:00 AM. 10:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. 11:15 am. _ Natural Targets” “Physics, Entropy and Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ Psychokinesis” “Remote Viewing of Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff ‘Intermission “Parapsychology as an Analytico-Deductive J. WW. M. Whiteman Science” 12:15-2:30 pm. Recess—Lunch 2:30 pm. 3:30 P.M. 4:30 p.m. “A Logically Consistent Model of a World with Psi Interaction” Helmut Schmidt “Connections between Events in the Context of the Combinatorial Model for a Quantum Process” Ted Bastin Intermission 4:45-6:00 p.m. Round Table Discussion Set Nae et ett tN cel ptt nt see el ttl el Se cma tat gall ett ‘Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200180001-2