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Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos  I very much doubt the brain relies on instantaneous processing, especially since it can't involve information transfer. ~~ Paul |
Paul, since telepathy still seems to occur in electromagnetically shielded labs and the generally consensus is that distance doesn't any much difference in telepathy experiments, it is not likely to be a local signal.
Therefore, in theory, when you accept telepathy, you are pretty much forced to view psi as more than purely a local brain function that sends local signals?
To defend materialism (i.e. an evolutionary direction ... matter creates mind) you would have to view the brain as what? A quantum computer? However you are arguing such a type of materialism can never explain telepathy because local to no-local transfer of information cannot occur?
If the mind is non-local (to our physical senses) and the brain is the local filter of an non-local mind, do these theoretical problems increase or diminsh?
If telepathy is real whether materialism (matter -> mind) or an alternative (that views matter as less fundamental) ..... something in physics probably needs modified.