[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

Originally Posted by Open Mind

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.

Somebody timed some experiments and noted that the information transfer occurs faster than the speed of light? Which subjects are far enough away to make this claim?

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?

Then entanglement doesn't help, because there doesn't appear to be any way to transfer information. Not to mention the problem is entangling the subjects and objects to begin with.

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?

It doesn't appear to be possible to transfer information.

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?

Only if you postulate that the metamind is supernatural, in which case all bets are off.

~~ Paul