THE ROLE OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD

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• Publication Date: January 3, 1979
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Titleof The Role of Conciousness in the Physical World
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Name(s) of Robert. G. Jahn
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Title. AUTHOR 30 (Experimental Psi Research: Implications for Physics
29 H. E. PUTHOFF, R. TARG, E. C. MAY (SRI International)
28 BeanAbs!rac: 27 lExperimental laboratory work continues to provide evidence
flush e`" 26 for the existence of so-called psi processes, a class of in-
25 teractions between conciousness and the physical world as
24 yet unexplained. These include 1) the acquisition of'infor-
23 ma.tion not presented to any obvious sense, and 2) the pro-
22 duction of physical effects'not mediated by any obvious meth
21 a.nism. At SRI we have concentrated primarily on the former,
20 !investigating a phenomenon we call "remote viewing," the
wrt a,l~ 19 ability of certain individuals to access and describe, by
sGW a; s,t~xl- 18 'means of mental processes, information blocked from ordinary
~'ac:sn 17 perception by distance or shielding. Our data base consists
16 of 9100 experiments in the remote viewing of targets ranging
15 Ifrom objects in nearby light-tight cannisters to geographic
14 sites at transcontinental distances, viewed from locations
13 which include shielded Faraday cages and a submerged subma-
12 wine. Data from these observations indicate that models put
11 orwwrd to explain psi processes must account for bit rates
10 10 bits/s, resolution -mm, apparent ineffectiveness of or
9 inary electrical 9hieldin.g, and relative insensitivity to
8 distance up to -10 km. Although such phenomena might appear
7 to be in conflict with the laws of physics, we anticipate
6 that much of the data will in all probability be accounted
5 or either within the framework of physics as presently un-
4 1erstood, or on the basis of conservative extrapolations
3 that have been proposed to account for other (non-psi) data,
Do not type 2 land that, conversely, the psi data base may shed light on
below this kin e 1 (some of the current problems in physics.
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