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Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos  Well, that's half the story: The brain filters an external conscousness. Now how does that external consciousness work and why can't we detect it? |
Well the most obvious way to detect it would be consciousness experienced during brain electrical inactivity, as indicated in many Near Death Experiences... here is another video clip example ....
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Can you point me to a concise description of Bergson's theory so I can determine whether it is falsifiable at all?
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Bergson had many theories on perception, memory, freewill, time, evolution etc. ... all interrelated but specifically what we are mostly interested in here is his concept that psi is being filtered out by the evolution of the brain.
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'Phantasms of the living and psychical research' (1913) – Henri Bergson
Note: Bergson wrote comparitively little on psychical research/parapsychology. So the theory is often associated with William James, Myres, etc. However Bergson's theories in 'Matter and Memory', 'Time and Freewill' , 'Creative Evolution' lead to it.
His theories can be explored in various different directions........for example
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Do tell how we are going to test morphogenetic fields when Sheldrake will not specify which systems have them and which do not.
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I said Sheldrake's 'formative causation' hypothesis can be tested..First things first
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Well, those folks who established the Society of Psychical Research in 1882 sure thought they were doing real science.
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And they were but I was replying to your comment
'Yet somehow 150 years of research has not come up with a theory ' Finding a theory was not their initial priority, more often they were checking whether claims were actually objectively true and the majority of esteemed scientists came to the conclusion, yes. However they were not testing hypotheses, they were doing observational field research, following claims of witnesses etc. The research moved to labs around 1930, which was better for testing theories on how psi might work.