193. Dr. Daryl Bem on the Quantum Theory Secret Psychologists Need to Know (Podcast)

[alextsakiris]

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[Arouet]

Well, the tag line certainly makes me interested to listen to this one!

[Sandy B]

Originally Posted by Arouet

Well, the tag line certainly makes me interested to listen to this one!

It's also well worth going to Richard Grego's website to listen to all of the full interviews he's posted:

Dr. Richard Grego

The mp3's are not labelled but Daryl Bem is VN810032.MP3 (3rd from the bottom).

[Sock]

Do any physicists really take the idea of quantum entanglement information transfer seriously? As far as I know it would be in contradiction to modern physics.

Originally Posted by Sock

Do any physicists really take the idea of quantum entanglement information transfer seriously? As far as I know it would be in contradiction to modern physics.

I think this is pretty serious research:

Entanglement based quantum communication over 144 km

[phs1it]

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[JCearley]

Originally Posted by Sock

Do any physicists really take the idea of quantum entanglement information transfer seriously? As far as I know it would be in contradiction to modern physics.

Yes, they take the idea of being able to transfer information through entanglement channels very seriously. It was debated as a means of transferring information faster-than-light, and conceptually it could be used as such, but actually establishing the link requires sub-luminal contact. It still has security applications since eavesdropping isn't exactly... easy. And impossible to do without being noticed. Currently the crux is figuring out how to create the entanglements on purpose, and getting them to stay stable over longer and longer periods + distances.

[Ninshub]

Re: the Williams interview where he explains materialism, dualism and panpsychism and compares which fits the psi data the best.

This is just a thought I'm throwing out there, but when I think of the separate field of NDE research, I don't see a problem with dualism - at a perhaps very naive-immediate level, it certainly seems to fit many NDErs' accounts for one thing.

Here's my main point (again concerning NDEs, not psi), Williams says it's up to dualists to come up with an explanation for how body and mind interact and that they have a dilemma there.

I often think that, irrespective of how body and mind interact when minds are "embodied" (or souls incarnated if you will), once the "mind" (soul, whatever) leaves the body (at death), it might be foolish to think about any "interactive mechanism". Maybe it's a spiritual thing that doesn't have anything to do with physics, classical or quantum, of a realm/dimension/whatever you want to call it that we will never be to access knowledge-wise.

I'm sure this thought isn't original but I thought I'd mention it since it often occupies my mind when we start thinking about the nature of consciousness.

[Arouet]

Don't we have to accept that if this non-material stuff exists it must at the very least be compatible with matter as it has to interact with it? Perhaps it has other properties as well, but at least some of the time it must have material properties?

[Michael Larkin]

Originally Posted by Arouet

Don't we have to accept that if this non-material stuff exists it must at the very least be compatible with matter as it has to interact with it? Perhaps it has other properties as well, but at least some of the time it must have material properties?

E=mc^2

Does this energy stuff some of the time have material properties? Or does it make more sense to say that they're both the same stuff but in different forms? If so, could matter, consciousness and energy be different forms of the same stuff?