Psychophysical modulation of fringe visibility in a distant double-slit optical system

Radin, Dean; Michel, Leena; Delorme, Arnaud

doi:10.4006/0836-1398-29.1.014

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“…Of particular interest to the present work are the double-slit experiment series [19][20][21][22] presented by Dean Radin and his collaborators. Those results are remarkable in the sense that many of the pre-planned experiments resulted in statistically significant evidence supporting the investigated interaction.…”

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Consciousness-related interactions in a double-slit optical system

Guerrer¹

2017

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Motivated by a series of reported experiments and their controversial results, the present work investigated if volunteers could causally affect an optical double-slit system by mental efforts alone. The participants' task in the experimental sessions alternated between intending an increase in the (real-time feedback-informed) amount of light diffracted through a specific single slit versus relaxing their intentional effort. In total, 240 sessions contributed by 171 volunteers were recorded. The first 160 sessions were collected in an exploratory mode, and those data revealed statistically significant differences between the intention and relax conditions. The analysis method and variables of interest derived from the exploratory sessions were then pre-registered for the subsequent 80 formal sessions. The formal experiments, based on a directional hypothesis, were not statistically significant. A post hoc meta-analysis based on a bi-directional hypothesis, and applied to the same data, resulted in a 2.75 sigma outcome (p = 6.02 × 10 −3 ; es = 0.31 ± 0.22 95% CI). Directional and bidirectional analyses applied to an equal number of control sessions, all conducted without observers present, resulted in uniformly non-significant outcomes. Analysis of environmental factors did not reveal any artifactual sources that might have produced the significant bi-directional effect. While the pre-registered analysis did not support the existence of the investigated phenomenon, the post hoc findings warrant further investigation to formally test the bi-directional hypothesis.

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Consciousness-related interactions in a double-slit optical system

Guerrer¹

2017

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“…Other, related research, was previously published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, demonstrating the robustness and reproducibility of these double-slit quantum experiments (Radin et al 2012(Radin et al , 2015(Radin et al , 2016. Earlier experiments had been done using interferometers (Radin 2008).…”

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The Consciousness of Reality

Glattfelder¹

2019

Information—Consciousness—Reality

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Finally, the human mind faces its own nature. By extending the information-theoretic paradigm, the informational nature of consciousness is uncovered. This gives rise to the very first formal description of consciousness. In attempts to bridge the chasm between the objective and subjective, scientists and philosophers have opened up to the unspeakable. The nature of consciousness, as has been suggested by ancient Eastern and shamanic traditions, is necessarily universal and primal. The notion of spirituality is creeping back into science. Moving towards a more empirical analysis, the enigma of intelligence is discussed, arising in decentralized systems and even in inanimate structures. Then, the surprising therapeutic effects of psychedelics is discovered, next to a myriad of transcendental planes of being, accessible to pure consciousness. Moreover, peer-reviewed studies are appearing in the physics literature describing mind-matter interactions in double-slit quantum experiments-a long suspected connection by many pioneers of quantum mechanics. As the cracks in the current edifice of science continually grow, the new informationtheoretic paradigm is embraced. Beginning with an information ontology, a radical participatory ontology is hinted at. In essence, the human mind is witnessing the most radical paradigm shift in its own history. The well-served and previously glorious materialistic and reductionistic scientific worldview is yielding to a novel scientific conception of subjective consciousness and objective reality-and their unexpected intimate kinship. Level of mathematical formality: low. Consciousness is a truly puzzling phenomenon. For one, my own consciousness is the only element of existence I am personally aware of. Through the flow of subjective experiences I perceive an external reality and myself demarcated from it. I assume that other human minds-and to some extent non-human minds-experience a similar structure in this eternal moment of "now." Strangely however, the subjective itself is very hard to objectify. The totality of perception, including every memory, is notoriously unreliable and misleading (Chap. 11). How then, should one try to comprehend the fundamental nature of consciousness? Moreover, is the external world our senses are seemingly reporting to us about really "out there?"

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“…Studies on mental interaction with electronic equipment, mainly on random number generators, date back as far as the 1930s (Duggan, 2019), and a review of more than 300 studies has been published by Bösch, Steinkamp, & Boller (2006). The latest developments in this line of research aim to: a) better understand the role of the mind on subatomic particles, such as photons (Radin, Michel, & Delorme, 2016;Radin, Michel, Johnston, & Delorme, 2013;Tressoldi, Pederzoli, Matteoli, Prati, & Kruth, 2016) and b) demonstrate the possibility of building up mentally controlled electronic equipment (Tressoldi, Pederzoli, Prati & Semenzato, in press).…”

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Non-Ordinary Mental Expressions (NOMEs): Clues on the Nature of the Human Mind

Facco¹,

Pederzoli²,

Tressoldi³

2020

SSRN Journal

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The aim of this essay is to describe several ostensibly odd experiences considered implausible, illusory or hallucinatory phenomena, largely considered to be disorders of the neurological or psychological functioning from the ruling mechanist-reductionist perspective of neurosciences. A rigorous but open-minded neurophenomenological approach is required to properly investigate and understand such Non-Ordinary Mental Expressions (NOMEs). Individuals who experience NOMEs should not feel like they are outsiders or abnormal and should feel free to talk about their uncommon experiences, and professionals should listen to them with an open-minded, non-prejudicial and nonjudgmental approach. NOMEs challenges the ruling stance of medical and psychological science and suggest intriguing properties of human consciousness, which are likely to be incompatible with the accepted axioms and theories, showing the inescapable epistemological implications of their proper investigation and understanding.

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Psychophysical modulation of fringe visibility in a distant double-slit optical system

Cited by 32 publications

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Consciousness-related interactions in a double-slit optical system

Consciousness-related interactions in a double-slit optical system

The Consciousness of Reality

Non-Ordinary Mental Expressions (NOMEs): Clues on the Nature of the Human Mind

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