Can an aspect of consciousness be imprinted into an electronic device?
W A Tiller, M J Kohane, W E Dibble
Integrative physiological and behavioral science : the official journal of the Pavlovian Society 2000 DOI: 10.1007/bf02688773 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Experimental study Peer reviewed |
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| Population | Water samples (pH experiment) and fruit fly larvae (development-time experiment) |
| Key findings | The author reports that devices imprinted with specific intentions by four meditators produced pH changes of 0.5 to 1.0 units in water and about 15 percent faster larval development in fruit flies compared with unimprinted devices (p<0.005), and argues these results contradict the conventional expectation that any consciousness effect on physical systems is small. |
Abstract
Although quantum mechanics allows consciousness to have some effect on the collapse of wave functions, most conventional scientists expect the effect to be quite small. Their experience with expert systems, computer-aided design, etc., would cause them to deny the possibility that a specific human intention could be imprinted into a simple electronic device via a meditative process and that this device could then influence a target experiment in accordance with the specific intention. Here, via two very different target experiments, that prevailing supposition has been experimentally tested and found to be fallacious! For each target experiment, one starts with two identical physical devices, isolates them from each other and "charges" one with the specific intention for the particular experiment. This charging process involved the services of four highly qualified meditators to imprint the device with the specific intention. The devices were then wrapped in aluminum foil and separately shipped, via Federal Express approximately 2,000 miles to a laboratory where the actual target experiments were conducted by others. For the two experiments, the intentions were (1) to decrease (increase) the pH of water by one pH unit and (2) to increase the ATP/ADP ratio in fruit fly larvae so as to significantly decrease their development time. For (1), changes of 0.5 to 1.0 pH units were achieved while, for (2), reductions of approximately 15 percent in larval development time for the imprinted vs. unimprinted device were observed (p<0.005). From a theoretical perspective, (1) a thermodynamic basis is provided for the effect of intention on both the electrochemical potential and flux of molecular species, (2) a conceptual model for linking subtle domains with the physical domain devices is given, and (3) a conceptual model is also given of how such devices may broadcast specific prime directive information via intention-augmented electromagnetism which can "tilt" chemical reactions in appropriate ways within the target experiment.