[Elrond]

Originally Posted by Elrond

...there [are] many ways that people approach and interpret the LoA. There are many ways that people use the LoA and many even mix it with other disciplines. Of course the ways that some people will be more practical than others, and some appraoches will just flat out not work. Add onto that the chance of failure, that your thoughts are contradicting, that you haven't invested enough thought and on and on and on. Even if they have failed in the procedure, they might not even know it.

In other words, you have nothing to build a consistent scientific experiment on.

How empirically can the mind be studied? You may be able to hook someone up to a computer and read their brainwaves, get an overall data on his mood and if his thoughts are causing him stress and such. But how far can you take it? To be able to establish LoA as a law, one would have to empirically study the mind of another person and compare it to how his reality is. Then one could derive theories from this and propose mathematical equations to show the relationship between the mind and reality.

Is there some devise that can read people's mind and see the images they see, the sounds they hear (all in their minds), etc? If not, then it can not be proven empirically as far as I can see it. Nor can you use peoples lack of success in this field as an argument for LoA's falseness, because you cannot compare the mindset that those who succeded had with the mindset that those who failed.

Yes, I'm so self-indulgent that I have stooped to quoting myself.