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Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot  |
This article and
follow up research highlights the problem with making assumptions and using those assumptions in psuedoscientific explanations. The first two experiments, one on finger joints, and one on both finger and elbow joints, showed that mental training increased strength. But how was the strength increase achieved? Not through increased muscle mass, but though enhanced cortical output signals. In other words, stronger signals being sent from the brain to the muscles. The muscles didn't change much.
And yet a
different study wasn't able to replicate the results.
So, thinking, under some circumstances which haven't been isolated, may create neurological changes which influence strength. Saying anything else, including that thinking is real
external action, is unsupported speculation (though I welcome anything which shows otherwise).
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Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot Oh Mark. You're a bit behind times. The effects of quantum entanglement have already been demonstrated on the macroscopic level. Try googling these names - Rosenbaum and Sayantani Ghosh. |
Ahh, thanks for that. Interesting stuff; Rosenbaum and his colleagues showed that quantum entanglement effected the magnetic alignment of atoms in salt crystals. I read a news article and had a look at the abstract of the paper itself but I'll admit the details go over my head. Can you explain how these findings relate to thoughts being linked to the entire universe, and how thoughts influence objects? As far as I'm aware the implications of quantum entanglement don't extend to mechanisms of thought over matter.
If there is an explanation in Hicks' book, and it's backed by science I'm happy to read it. Note that I'm not questioning anyone's theories, just the misuse of science in explanations of those theories. It's a huge series of leaps to go from entanglement, to everything being entangled, to influence over matter through thought via entanglement.