AUTOMATED TESTS FOR TELEPHONE TELEPATHY USING MOBILE PHONES

Objective: To carry out automated experiments on mobile phones to test for telepathy in connection with telephone calls. Study Method: Subjects, aged from 10 to 83, registered online with the names and mobile telephone numbers of three or two senders. A computer selected a sender at random, and asked him to call the subject via the computer. The computer then asked the subject to guess the caller's name, and connected the caller and the subject after receiving the guess. A test consisted of six trials. Interactions Evaluated: The effects of subjects' sex and age and the effects of time delays on guesses. Main Outcome Measure: The proportion of correct guesses of the caller's name, compared with the 33.3% or 50% mean chance expectations. Main Results: In 2080 trials with three callers there were 869 hits (41.8%), above the 33.3% chance level (P o 1 Â 10 À15 ). The hit rate in incomplete tests was 43.8% (P ¼ .00003) showing that optional stopping could not explain the positive results. In 745 trials with two callers, there were 411 hits (55.2%), above the 50% chance level (P ¼ .003). An analysis of the data made it very unlikely that cheating could explain the positive results. These experiments showed that automated tests for telephone telepathy can be carried out using mobile phones

The sense of being stared at and other aspects of the extended mind

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The Evolution of Telepathy

Perrott-Warrick Lecture, organised by Trinity College, Cambridge.These are the slides that accompanied the lecture by Rupert Sheldrake, which can heard at http://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1097239. They are available in both Powerpoint and PDF format. A number of the slides, including the first one, are intentionally blank.Perrott-Warrick Committee, Trinity Colleg

Seven experiments that could change the world: a do-it-yourself guide to revolutionary science

Seven experiments are proposed in this book that the author believes, if any are successful, will alter how the reader perceives the world. The purpose of the book is to draw attention to areas of research neglected as a result of conventional habits of thought. The descriptions of the experiments are intended to focus the topics under discussion. One of the experiments in the book aims to test the hypothesis that many dogs and cats know that their owners are coming home before they actually arrive. Rupert Sheldrake has also written "The Presence of the Past" and "The Rebirth of Nature"

Science Set Free: 10 Paths to New Discovery

In Science Set Free, Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world\u27s most innovative scientists, shows the ways in which science is being constricted by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas that are not only limiting, but also dangerous for the future of humanity --Front jacket flap.https://scholar.dominican.edu/cynthia-stokes-brown-books-big-history/1098/thumbnail.jp

Por uma ciência livre de dogmas

O biólogo britânico Rupert Sheldrake é conhecido pela hipótese dos campos mórficos, onde propõe um novo conceito de transmissão de informação no tempo e no espaço. Formado em Ciências Naturais pelo Clare College, da Universidade de Cambridge, Sheldrake estudou filosofia e história da ciência na Universidade Harvard, nos Estados Unidos. Em seguida retornou à Inglaterra para doutorar-se em bioquímica por Cambridge – onde se tornou diretor do departamento de Bioquímica, dedicando-se às pesquisas sobre o desenvolvimento de plantas e o envelhecimento celular. Por um ano, de 1968 a 1969, ele trabalhou no Departamento de Botânica da Universidade de Malaya, em Kuala Lumpur, na Malásia – localizada no sudeste asiático –, onde estudou a floresta tropical. De 1974 a 1985, foi consultor do instituto internacional de pesquisa em culturas para o clima semiárido tropical (ICRISAT, de International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics), em Hiderabade, India. O contato com as culturas asiáticas teve forte impacto em seu pensamento, mas ele atribui a sua hipótese a bases mais europeias, como o pensamento do filósofo estadunidense Charles S. Pierce (1839-1914). Mais recentemente, de 2005 a 2010, Sheldrakefoi diretor do Projeto Perrott-Warrick, financiado pelo Trinity College, de Cambridge. Atualmente faz parte do corpo docente do Schumacher College, um centro de estudos avançados em Dartington, Devon, e é professor visitante do Graduate Institute, em Connecticut, nos EUA, entre outros institutos. Seu livro mais recente, The Science Delusion, com título provisório em português A Ciência da Ilusão e lançamento previsto no Brasil para março de 2014 pela editora Cultrix, toca num ponto nevrálgico: os dogmas que dominam, muitas vezes de forma inconsciente, a cultura acadêmica ocidental

Can you tell when you are being heard?

This project investigates whether people can tell when someone is listening to them on the telephone. It is an automated test programmed on a Twilio telephone system and involves two participants. One of them registers online, entering the names, sex and age of each participant, together with their telephone numbers (mobile or landlines). The test then begins, and the computer calls both participants. When they answer the phone they confirm they are ready to do the test by pressing 1. They are given brief instructions and can then talk to each other, as in a normal telephone conversation. After about 30 seconds a signal indicates that a trial is about to begin. At random, with a probability of .5, one of the two people is selected as the "talker" and the other as the "listener". The talker is told to go on talking, and informed that the other person, who has been muted, will either be listening to them or hearing music instead. The listener is informed that he or she has been muted and will either hear the talker or music. This decision is made by the computer at random with a probability of .5. After about 20 seconds, the talker is asked to guess whether the other person was listening or not, by pressing 1 for listening and 0 for not listening. The two people are then reconnected and talk together for about 30 seconds before the next trial begins. In each trial the listener is selected at random, and so is the voice between music and hearing the other person. This process is repeated until 6 trials have been completed, and each participant is then told how many times they were correct - for example 2 times out of 3. The test then ends. Data are stored in an online database, which records details and timings of each trial. This is an exploratory project to find out whether or not people can tell when they are being heard. If they can tell, at least sometimes, then the results should be significantly about the 50% chance expectation. The results will be analysed using the binomial test. Data from incomplete trials will be included in the overall analysis to control for optional stopping. Data will also be analysed using a trimming of the top and bottom 10% to investigate how robust the effect is. The effects of the participants; gender and age will also be investigated. This experiment will be carried out under real-life conditions, and in the initial tests this will leave open the possibility that some participants might cheat, for example by doing the test in the same room. If the results are at a chance level, then the cheating hypothesis will not be supported, and also the possibility that people can tell when they are being heard on the telephone will not be supported. If the results are above chance, then further tests will be carried out with one of the participants tested under supervision - by being filmed - to rule out the possibility of cheating. If under those conditions the results are still positive, then the hypothesis that people can tell when they are being heard will be supported. In phase 1 of this test, the preliminary phase, we plan to collect data from 5000 trials to see if there are any significant effects. Depending on the results we will then decide how to proceed in phase 2

JNDS, Volume 6, Number 2

This paper discusses Rupert Sheldrake's comments about Dr. J. Slawinski's paper "Electromagnetic Radiation And The Afterlife." Sheldrake proposes ideas that disagree with Slawinski's paper