Exceptional Experiences of Stable and Unstable Mental States, Understood from a Dual-Aspect Point of View

Atmanspacher, Harald; Fach, Wolfgang

doi:10.3390/philosophies4010007

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“…Following this idea, an original line of research has been initiated by the physicist and psychologist Walter Von Lucadou with the "Model of Pragmatic Information" (MPI; Lucadou, 1995;Lucadou et al, 2007). In this model, psi is considered as being something profoundly different to known macro-physical effects and causation, not relying on transfer of information but rather a form of entanglement process depending on the underlying nature of reality (Atmanspacher and Fuchs, 2017;Atmanspacher and Fach, 2019) 25 . A brief metaphor might be useful here.…”

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Why Most Research Findings About Psi Are False: The Replicability Crisis, the Psi Paradox and the Myth of Sisyphus

Rabeyron

2020

Front. Psychol.

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The replicability crisis in psychology has been influenced by the results of nine experiments conducted by Bem (2011) and presented as supporting the existence of precognition. In this paper, we hope to show how the debate concerning these experiments could be an opportunity to develop original thinking about psychology and replicability. After a few preliminary remarks about psi and scientific epistemology, we examine how psi results lead to a paradox which questions how appropriate the scientific method is to psi research. This paradox highlights a problem in the way experiments are conducted in psi research and its potential consequence on mainstream research in psychology. Two classical experiments-the Ganzfeld protocol and the Bem studies-are then analyzed in order to illustrate this paradox and its consequences. Mainstream research is also addressed in the broader context of the replication crisis, decline effect and questionable research practices. Several perspectives for future research are proposed in conclusion and underline the heuristic value of psi studies for psychology.

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Why Most Research Findings About Psi Are False: The Replicability Crisis, the Psi Paradox and the Myth of Sisyphus

Rabeyron

2020

Front. Psychol.

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“…The results of this introspective difficulty are baleful. If to hold fast and observe the transitive parts of thought's stream be so hard, then the great blunder to which all schools are liable must be the failure to register them, and the undue emphasizing of the more substantive parts of the stream" (James, 1890, p. 243), quoted in Atmanspacher and Fach, 2019. This can be illustrated, for example, with the following metaphorical picture: If you cut a piece of marble in half and only look at the cut surface, observing that "the cut surface looks like this or like that, " you may have just thought of the image of the cut surface from the third person perspective. You have no way of indicating what pattern the colors and lines might follow inside the depth of the stone.…”

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A transitive perspective on the relief of psychosomatic symptoms

Tschugguel

2022

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A key element of successful psychotherapy for the treatment of psychosomatic disorders is that patients recognize and change the meaning of their experiences. Such changes are brought about by appropriate verbal referencing of symptoms currently experienced within a given narrative. The present theoretical paper argues that changes are not based on better, more adaptive narratives per se, but on the transition (or linkage) process itself that is experienced between different narratives. This view is theoretically justified in various ways: first, it is accounted for through contemporary spatiotemporal neuroscience, which aims to connect mental and structural aspects via a common dynamic property or, according to Northoff, the “common currency” of a brain’s orientation along its embeddedness in its contextual world, i.e., body and environment. Second, it is justified through the physics concept of “spontaneous symmetry breaking,” which is used analogously to “suffering from symptoms.” If the sufferer is willing to experience a process of “going back,” that is, moving away from the previous narrative (or aspect) by verbally relating to the felt aspects of the symptom in question (i.e., approaching its meaning), they are moving toward symmetry or an underlying dynamic alignment with their world context. Clinical predictions are derived from the theoretical arguments.

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“…In recent years, supporting evidence for the Pauli-Jung conjecture has been collected from data bases documenting exceptional experiences of thousands of individual subjects so far. The interested reader may find corresponding material in pertinent literature such as [72][73][74]. But we are still in the early phases of refining the conceptual framework toward a theory and testing its implications, and much more work waits to be done.…”

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Correlations and How to Interpret Them

Atmanspacher

Martin

2019

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Correlations between observed data are at the heart of all empirical research that strives for establishing lawful regularities. However, there are numerous ways to assess these correlations, and there are numerous ways to make sense of them. This essay presents a bird's eye perspective on different interpretive schemes to understand correlations. It is designed as a comparative survey of the basic concepts. Many important details to back it up can be found in the relevant technical literature. Correlations can (1) extend over time (diachronic correlations) or they can (2) relate data in an atemporal way (synchronic correlations). Within class (1), the standard interpretive accounts are based on causal models or on predictive models that are not necessarily causal. Examples within class (2) are (mainly unsupervised) data mining approaches, relations between domains (multiscale systems), nonlocal quantum correlations, and eventually correlations between the mental and the physical.Here, µ X and µ Y are expectation values of X and Y, respectively, and σ X and σ Y are their standard deviations; E is the expected value operator; cov stands for covariance; and corr for correlation.But more often than not random variables X and Y are not linearly dependent. In this case, ρ X,Y may be greater than 0, but does only insufficiently characterize the dependence between X and Y. Also, different datasets with the same ρ X,Y can be of entirely different origin if they reflect variables that are nonlinearly related (a classic but still impressive example is the "Anscombe quartet" [4]). Even the case ρ X,Y = 0 does typically not reflect vanishing dependence for nonlinear relations. More sophisticated correlation measures have to be used in nonlinear time series analysis [5] to address nonlinar dependence relations properly.If two random (or stochastic) processes {X t } and {Y t } are statistically dependent, then they are correlated. The relevant quantitative measure (for wide-sense stationary processes with constant mean and well-defined variance) is the cross-correlation function τ → R X,Y (τ),where τ = t 1 − t 2 is the time lag between X t and Y t (for complex-valued processes, Y t+τ has to be replaced by its complex conjugate). For temporal correlations within a single process {X t }, this simplifies to the autocorrelation function R X,X (τ) = E[X t X t+τ ] .The Fourier-transform of R X,X (τ) yields the power spectrum of the process {X t } as a function of frequency f :

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Exceptional Experiences of Stable and Unstable Mental States, Understood from a Dual-Aspect Point of View

Cited by 12 publications

References 43 publications

Why Most Research Findings About Psi Are False: The Replicability Crisis, the Psi Paradox and the Myth of Sisyphus

Why Most Research Findings About Psi Are False: The Replicability Crisis, the Psi Paradox and the Myth of Sisyphus

A transitive perspective on the relief of psychosomatic symptoms

Correlations and How to Interpret Them

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