Great to see the conversation continuing…

Thanks for the great contribution to the discussion.   Your last post is very helpful.    

Philosophically then, the universe IS alive because WE are alive and we are inseparable from the universe.

  Yes.  In that way, I agree.      

So in this spirit, my…

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Great to see the conversation continuing…

Thanks for the great contribution to the discussion.   Your last post is very helpful.  

Philosophically then, the universe IS alive because WE are alive and we are inseparable from the universe.

 Yes.  In that way, I agree.   

So in this spirit, my suggestion (as…

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Thanks for replying, Jon. You’ve raised some questions that I can address.    ….. ….. I am only trying to justify the research topic itself. You are dismissing it as frivolous. 

I’m not quite dismissing it as frivolous, but as an area that seems to have less promise than many other…[Read more]

Jon – To me, your arguments seem to come from a need to fit everything into a particular worldview – one that assures us that there is “nothing out of the ordinary.”

 No, quite the opposite.  I’d love to find out about things that are unknown or not explained – in fact, I’m sure that such things exist.  My need is fairness/r…[Read more]

My experiences come from these years of laboratory experiments (for example, many with strip chart printouts — not fabricated memories) to show the results.    

The reports on this work had access to all the data.  Those reports concluded that nothing substantial was found.

   you so completely diminish and dismiss fi…

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My experiences come from these years of laboratory experiments (for example, many with strip chart printouts — not fabricated memories) to show the results.  

The reports on this work had access to all the data.  Those reports concluded that nothing substantial was found.  you so completely diminish and dismiss first-…[Read more]

While I still do not see the “diminishing effect” over time that you mentioned,

  In the post that I referenced, I mentioned the strong effect claimed for “information transfer” in the 1800s and 1900s in ways such as clairvoyance, ESP, etc.  Compar…[Read more]

I could send along statistics to you (perhaps next week)

 I’d be happy to look at them, but think about this from the view of anyone else for a second.  The data could well show the 65% accuracy claimed in the early SRI data (after all, those data exist as well).  What would that mean? To answer that, think of how this go…[Read more]

however your claim that “that the closer these possible effects are looked at, the smaller and more elusive they become” is not substantiated in the citations I gave (as far as I can see). 

  Yes, it is substantiated.  If you look at the table on page 17 of the Bem “90” pdf, you can see that even with hundreds to thousands of experiments…[Read more]

however your claim that “that the closer these possible effects are looked at, the smaller and more elusive they become” is not substantiated in the citations I gave (as far as I can see). 

  Yes, it is substantiated.  If you look at the table on page 17 of the Bem “90” pdf, you can see that even with hundreds to thousands of experiment…[Read more]

I accept that these are your views but you will certainly find sharp disagreement from skilled biologists working with these organisms. Professor Brian Leander of the Laboratory of Marine Organismal Diversity & Evolution at the University of British Columbia concludes this article with the following:But…

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The article describes a single celled organism without any neural structure that is “pointing its ocelloid in different directions.”

Sure.  My wind chime out my window points in different directions.  It’s not hard at all to have a mechanism that points in different directions.  Then, a simple light sensitive spot on it will be…[Read more]

*****My key point was simply that consciousness does not require complex neural networks or a brain.  ******

But your example didn’t show this in any way.  Your example showed a cell that does something in response to it’s environment – the exact same thing a plane on autopilot does – changing it’…[Read more]

Personally, I’ve moved past such arguments – there is a TON of evidence regarding anomalous information transfer.  Others can wait for “extraordinary proof” to emerge that will put down even the most extreme skeptic, however I’ve grown impatient as the data mounts in fa…

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Like Ursula, I feel that life evolved all on its own.  In fact I think that carbon nitrogen hydrogen etc _tend_ to form the molecules of life. (As a result of my personal research, which I will explain in a se…

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Prof. Murakami also wrote that “The probability of living cell having come into existence by chance is so slender as to constitute a miracle: the odds would be something on the order of winning a million dollars in a lottery a million times in a row.” 

  Duane, first, could you please provide the source for that (full context), so we…[Read more]

My understanding of a “materialist” view of the universe is summarized in the following propositions (which I understand may not reflect your own):• 1 Measurable matter is the only reality and is essentially mechanical in its workings. 

 Is someone claiming that nothing else could exist?  I think you might be taking the fact that scie…[Read more]

My understanding of a “materialist” view of the universe is summarized in the following propositions (which I understand may not reflect your own):• 1 Measurable matter is the only reality and is essentially mechanical in its workings. 

 Is someone claiming that nothing else could exist?  I think you might be taking the fact that scie…[Read more]

My understanding of a “materialist” view of the universe is summarized in the following propositions (which I understand may not reflect your own):• 1 Measurable matter is the only reality and is essentially mechanical in its workings. 

 Is someone claiming that nothing else could exist?  I think you might be taking the fact that sci…[Read more]

“Scientists are great at crafting theories and gathering evidence. But they are not generally very good storytellers.”

        Yes, exactly!  This is why our Deep Time Journey Network is so vitally important.  It reminds me of this very interesting podcast I listened to recently by Randy Olson, called “Don’t be such a scientist!”…[Read more]

If there now is consensus among origin-of-life researchers that RNA chains are too specialized to have been created as a product of random chemical reactions…..

  Are you claiming that such a consensus now exists?  If so, could you offer some support for that?  If not, then what d…[Read more]

***you offer the statement that the physicist, Dr. David Bohm “was regularly fooled by charlatans.” I am interested in the actual data that supports this important assertion.  ***

  Yes, it is always quite fair to ask for support for any claim.  Here is a start – though there i…[Read more]

***you offer the statement that the physicist, Dr. David Bohm “was regularly fooled by charlatans.” I am interested in the actual data that supports this important assertion.  ***

  Yes, it is always quite fair to ask for support for any claim.  Here is a start – though there is more…[Read more]