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Abstract of Invited Paper
HOUSTON
JAN - 3-8, 1979
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The Role of Conciousness in the Physical World
Symposium
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Robert. G. Jahn
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Experimental laboratory work continues to provide evidence
for the existence of so-called psi processes, a class of in-
(teractions between conciousness and the physical world as
yet unexplained. These include 1) the acquisition of infor-
mation not presented to any obvious sense, and 2) the pro-
duction of physical effects not mediated by any obvious mech-
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anism. At SRI we have concentrated primarily on the former,
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investigating a phenomenon we call "remote viewing, " the
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ability of certain individuals to access and describe, by
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means of mental processes, information blocked from ordinary
perception by distance or shielding. Our data base consists
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of >100 experiments in the remote viewing of targets ranging
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from objects in nearby light-tight cannisters to geographic
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sites at transcontinental distances, viewed from locations
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which include shielded Faraday cages and a submerged subma-
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rine. Data from these observations indicate that models put
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forward to explain psi processes must account for bit rates
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~10"- bits/s, resolution ~mm, apparent ineffectiveness of or-
dinary electrical shielding, and relative insensitivity to
distance up to ~104 km. Although such phenomena might appear
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to be in conflict with the laws of physics, we anticipate
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that much of the data will in all probability be accounted
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for either within the framework of physics as presently un-
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derstood, or on the basis of conservative extrapolations
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that have been proposed to account for other (non-psi) data,
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and that, conversely, the psi data base may shed light on
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some of the current problems in physics.
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Experimental Psi Research: Implications for Physics
H. E. PUTHOFF, R. TARG, E. C. MAY (SRI International)
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