The Extended Mind: Recent Experimental Evidence

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Google Tech Talks September 2, 2008 ABSTRACT We have been brought up to believe that the mind is located inside the head. But there are good reasons for thinking that this view is too limited. Recent experimental results show that people can influence others at a distance just by looking at them, even if they look from behind and if all sensory clues are eliminated. And people's intentions can be detected by animals from miles away. The commonest kind of non-local interaction mental influence occurs in connection with telephone calls, where most people have had the experience of thinking of someone shortly before they ring. Controlled, randomized tests on telephone telepathy have given highly significant positive results. Research techniques have now been automated and experiments on telepathy are now being conducted through the internet and cell phones, enabling widespread participation. Speaker: Rupert Sheldrake Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D. is a biologist and author of more than 75 technical papers and ten books, the most recent being The Sense of Being Stared At. He studied at Cambridge and Harvard Universities, was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge and a Research Fellow of the Royal Society. He is currently Director of the Perrott-Warrick project, funded from Trinity College Cambridge.

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390 people do not like being stared at.
I really don't get why he says that from the standard view of visual perception, where everything is constructed in the brain "your skull must be beyond the sky" in order to perceive a sky. Why does he say this? Of course your skull doesn't have to be beyond the sky to perceive a sky. How could vision be projecting outward? There is nothing apparent being projected otherwise we should expect to see layerings of what other people are projecting. If images are taken in through the eyes and reconstructed in the brain, it doesn't mean the things we see don't exist outside our brain, it just mean that our brain's function is the only mechanism by which we can detect those things that exist.
I can definitely tell when animals are looking at me. I live in Florida where we have a lot of lizards everywhere. Whenever I'm working outside and I get that strange feeling, I'll, turn around and sure enough a lizard, bird or squirrel is starting at me from somewhere. I had a cat that would stare at me too. She would try to hide but I could always tell that she was somewhere looking at me. It would drive me crazy to the point that I couldn't concentrate on my work, so, I gave that cat to my mom.

As far as people knowing your feelings/thoughts I notice this a lot too. Many people refer to it as bad or good vibes. What's interesting is that it doesn't seem to work that well with Asians. Asians seem to be clueless about my feelings/thoughts which has caused a lot of conflict between me and my wife. My wife is Asian and she can never understand my feelings/thoughts and I cannot read hers, however, that's certainly not the case with Latino women who seem to understand me without ever speaking a word. Very strange.
26:29 Note the comment about skeptics who are operating in vigilante organisations, to try and discredit research. 100,000 subscribers to skeptical magazines in the US. 5 fulltime researchers in parapsychology.
What Sheldrake does not say is that the idendities of these skeptical groups, and of many of the key players are known: Susan Gerbic (Guerilla Skeptics), Dr David Gorsky (aka Orac), many members of the Friends of Science In Medicine in Australia.
These organisations work in a systematic way (as has been outlined by Gerbic in her lectures to her acolytes) to swamp the editing in Wikipedia, and to dominate the discussion not only in parapsychology but also in medicine.
This domination of the public discourse by teams of skeptics is now being called astroturfing.
Look down the thread and you will see a couple of potential suspects in the comments column.
the end of materialism
Very interesting. Looking forward to learn more about this morphic-Field.
how it relates with the projection of consciousness and triggers perception? And how does the brain interacts with it (like a receptor, he says...) but a receptor of what exactly? I agree on his view of the Mind as a collective field of information (Physical, Psicologycal, Electro-Magnetic, etc) I even think that the very concept of Mind as an individual construct or property of the singular brain is wrong. I believe that The Mind is the sum of all the "Information" that its been procedural generated in Time through its displacement in Space. Basically Information as a constant. And that we are continuously iterating with it, and selectively bringing it to our consciousness through our senses. Therefore, receipting it and shaping our own virtual experience in our own brain, calling it ´own mind´... The thing is that we are co-creating that psicologycal enviroment, the human psicologycal enviroment. Take the Internet for the perfect analogy. My computer at home isn´t the internet, but it can certainly navigate it..
So here´s a question, Are we capable, in some level, to be aware of this process, this "Iteration with the information", occurring in our own brains? In other words, Can we be aware of the procedural mechanics of thinking and perceiving in our own minds?
And if so, are we able to bridge that awareness to others? Or perceive that same iteration ~~Mind/Brain~~ happening to others?
Does the brain holds the knowledge of this behavior, this process? and knowing it as a proper function, do we can become conscious about it? Is that a potential bridge to recognize the same activity or behavior occurring in others people or living organism?

Sounds like we need to start reading serious Buddhism to me. And maybe its time to practice it in this perspective, before we discuss about the possibility of being aware of this extraordinary phenomena of perception/consciousness occurring in someone else´s Mind.
Very interesting and disruptive theory. I hope this way of thinking spreads in the future not only as a valid scientific aproach to the subject of the mind, but also as an open debate of real and actual self discovery. We don´t need to purchase a laboratory to participate. We are the laboratory.
The man is claiming that the mind goes beyond the brain, yet a swift kick to the head can cause unconsciousness and a bullet to the brain will often kill someone, similarly drugs will change one's perceptions utterly... consciousness if purely an aspect of the physical brain and this man is peddling pseudo-science nonsense
You know you are dealing with a charlatan, when, instead of telling the statistic results of an experiment, he just CLAIMS the results show a 'significant and positive' value. Nothing you can ever check for yourself.. what a crock
Frank Skinner's a lot more intelligent than I thought he was.
The matter is also well know from spear fishing, as our thinking attentions are fully influencing to fish.
Dog's don't know disbelief. Maybe if humans could discard theirs then possibly they would have an open 3rd eye.
New age babble with ZERO peer reviewed proof.
I came here through the medium of a £5 note !!...
If at any point you agree with him, read this article https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ruperts-resonance/
Newtonian physics can explain telepathy. If you have a problem with that, welcome to the majority. If you choose to not believe in telepathy, it WILL go straight past you, no problem. I live it.
Probably bullshit.
How's this on GoogleTechTalks?
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2 Timothy 3:7 Always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
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