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Scientists Are About to Perform an Experiment to See if The Human Mind Is Bound by Physics
Science Alert ^ | May 25, 2017 | Dom Galeon

Posted on 05/25/2017 8:02:24 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain

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To: Dalberg-Acton

The D-Wave is the only significant one.

https://www.dwavesys.com

I saw a first hand demonstration of it, and the claim was that the hardware had incredible capability, but that little software existed to exploit it. Whether that is true or not, it is impossible to know, but I do know that major tech companies like Lockheed Martin are investing in it significantly, so it can’t all be hype.


21 posted on 05/25/2017 8:31:18 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (In God We Trust)
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To: <1/1,000,000th%
This sentence got my attention:
"This quantum effect is behind what makes quantum computers work, as quantum bits (qubits) generally rely on entanglement to process data and information."

Maybe it's just poor wording on the part of the author. Then again, my comprehension skills could be failing.

22 posted on 05/25/2017 8:31:23 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Scrambler Bob

>Jump off a 100-foot cliff, head first. Does Physics apply?

Yes, because it takes time to get there and stop.

If time is not in the equation, it’s not physics ans we know it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP2hWvVyyUM


23 posted on 05/25/2017 8:35:05 PM PDT by soycd
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To: Huskrrrr

I want to travel thru the universe at the speed of thought.


24 posted on 05/25/2017 8:36:25 PM PDT by pigsmith
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To: Ciaphas Cain

I tried reading the book called ‘The Tao of Physics’ by Fritjof Capra. Math has never been my strong suit, but I can still think in an abstract fashion. Some would say, I communicate in a similar way without meaning to.
Still, what I was able to wrest from the few chapters covered was a very different way of perceiving what ‘time’ meant and could mean. This was just the beginning of examining such topics in any form.


25 posted on 05/25/2017 8:37:38 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Ciaphas Cain
What it could mean is this: that the human mind (consciousness) isn't made up of the same matter governed by physics. Furthermore, it could suggest that the mind is capable of overcoming physics with free will.

The idea that mind creates all phenomena is thousands of years old.

26 posted on 05/25/2017 8:39:42 PM PDT by TigersEye (Make up my mind, NBC,CBS,CNN,ABC. What are the "facts" today?)
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To: Golden Eagle

DNA. It has connections we do not understand yet.

It’s a language from outer space...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcAZSy-W0gA


27 posted on 05/25/2017 8:40:20 PM PDT by soycd
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To: Scrambler Bob
If I donate, and my blood is given to a patient, will I experience THEIR trauma????

No, the claim is that if you donate blood, and then you experience trauma shortly thereafter, the blood that you donated is still tied to you via quantum physics, and can excrete similar hormones into the blood that is then separate from you. I don't know if the claim also says they tested that blood in an actual recipient's body, the studies seem to be limited to just testing the isolated blood that had been donated.

I have no idea if this is true, but have heard this claim several times over the years, although I've been unable to obtain further data from Google searches, which may be repressing the results. One thing that is known, without doubt, is that you can't re-use blood from someone who has died, although I think that's more explained by the lack of oxygen in the blood than any possible tie to quantum physics.

28 posted on 05/25/2017 8:40:55 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (In God We Trust)
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To: American in Israel

>Quantum physics is a byproduct of pot usage. “Thinking themselves to be wise, they become as fools...”

No, that’s how cults like islam and others are formed. No understanding of anything more than desire...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnLhzs7d0E8


29 posted on 05/25/2017 8:45:20 PM PDT by soycd
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To: soycd

Thanks for the link, but that video was far to trippy for me. All I know is that some of the most brilliant people I’ve ever met believe in quantum physics, whether that be because it is real, or because they are straddling the line of insanity, I’m not smart enough to know.


30 posted on 05/25/2017 8:46:28 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (In God We Trust)
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To: Publius

Dune novel prequels covered that aspect as well. Two twin boys, one became a Navigator, the other a guerilla fighter to Is to free it of the Tlilaxu.


31 posted on 05/25/2017 8:49:02 PM PDT by Red Badger (Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
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To: lee martell

The theory is that “God” is not bound by time or distance but is in affect “above” it all looking at all events as if all of time is laid out on a scroll. In that matter “he” could see the future, the past and the now.

In this manner God is outside of our time/universe but can oversee all.
It’s a nice way to even begin to describe our relationship to time and space.


32 posted on 05/25/2017 8:51:01 PM PDT by Dick Vomer (2 Timothy 4:7 deo duce ferro comitante)
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To: lee martell

> a very different way of perceiving what ‘time’ meant and could mean.

Separate sequence from time in the equation and it becomes more clear. When propagation delay is gone you must still have sequence to make sense of what happens.

Remove them both and you are a “God”...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbhhLhb3zc8


33 posted on 05/25/2017 8:51:37 PM PDT by soycd
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To: Ciaphas Cain
"...an experiment to see if the human mind is bound by physics..."

It is not.

But for the "human" mind, there would be no such thing as "physics." I remember back when "scientists" were sure that the atom was the smallest piece of this puzzle.

I once got detention in the 9th grade for asking my physics teacher a question he couldn't answer. Ever since then I've had a pretty clear picture of "scientists" and the purity [sic] of their purported search for knowledge and truth.

34 posted on 05/25/2017 8:54:15 PM PDT by Gargantua ("Still not tired of winning---beeyotch!" ;^)
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35 posted on 05/25/2017 8:54:35 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Ciaphas Cain

The actual ‘state’ of a particle may be very different from our perception of it’s ‘state’.

We claim to know the ‘state’ of a particle we cannot see, and there is no guarantee our measurements are 100% precise. We say that taking the measurement alters the ‘state’ of the particle, yet we don’t know what the ‘state’ was before we took the measurement. This means that saying the ‘state’ changes when we measure it is based on a total lack of evidence.


36 posted on 05/25/2017 8:57:18 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: American in Israel
"“Thinking themselves to be wise, they become as fools...”"

Congratulations! You just proved your own point...


37 posted on 05/25/2017 8:58:09 PM PDT by TXnMA (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad!! REPEAT San Jacinto!!!)
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To: Gargantua

...and nothing I have seen in the half-century since then has altered my position one iota.


38 posted on 05/25/2017 9:00:33 PM PDT by Gargantua ("Still not tired of winning---beeyotch!" ;^)
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To: Scrambler Bob
Jump off a 100-foot cliff, head first. Does Physics apply?

To the body, yes.

The question stated in the title of the article is whether the Human Mind is bound by physics.

The answer is no, it is not.

39 posted on 05/25/2017 9:01:58 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain
This quantum effect is behind what makes quantum computers work, as quantum bits (qubits) generally rely on entanglement to process data and information.
Wasn't that what Noah's Ark was made out of?

No wonder they were able to get all those animals aboard.

40 posted on 05/25/2017 9:03:47 PM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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