Again we have known about this phenomenon for decades and it’s an artifact of memory.
—“One instance of this sort of simple manifestation (I visualize the item, feel the emotions I associate with that item, wistfully muse “I wish I had a ____” and Shazam! The item appears out of nowhere) would be mere coincidence. “—
Or it’s that some set of columns has stumbled upon a prediction alerts your thalamus enough to excite a few neurons in your frontal lobes, and you feel the impulse to visualize that which you have already predicted. (This happens all the time.)
The smarter you are the more it happens. The more you spend in the free association “zone” the more frequently it happens.
—“yet must also admit there is more going on”—
That is different from claiming a thing, testifying to a thing, depending upon such a thing, or asking others to depend upon a thing, or even suggesting that they might depend upon a thing – even if such a thing is true.
I have worked on this problem quite a bit and as far as I can tell, and as far as any ‘magician’ and ‘debuker’ can tell, it’s all suggestion. The best way to test yourself on these ‘metaphysical’ question sis to learn the art of suggestion.
My favorite example is a woman who ‘feels’ something is wrong on the bust but doesn’t realize it’s the breathing of people behind her that is cueing her.
The most common is subjectivity to the same information produces synchronicity without communication.
So that means I can’t find a reason to think it’s other than synchronicity and suggestion by exposure to information.
Doesn’t mean I don’t feel the same thing sometimes.
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( …. continued:) So given that reason and then science evolved from law, and law dependent upon testimony, and that we are seeking to produce in the science that degree of testimony we would produce in court, then I see nothing terribly novel about continuing and completing that evolutionary process. In other words, science adopted operational prose as a means of suppressing the untestifiable. And I can see no reason why we would not extend this from the sciences to the pseudosciences – especially those which are used to construct and enforce law. —“The reason I care at all about this metaphysics issue is because I must partially disagree with the last line in the 18MAR2018 statement. While the list Curt provides is a good start, it is just a start, just a tip, and I suspect there is a whole lot more as yet unseen and undescribed to that iceberg. “— Despite trying, and the efforts of tens of thousands of researchers we cannot find a single case that is inexplicable by naturalistic means. In other words, I can’t find a reason to put money on (demonstrated belief in) other than common cognitive artifacts. —“That course was SOM 212: Myth & Spirit – The Life of Joseph Campbell”— My argument is that if metaphysics refers to what exists, then what do we name the study of the imaginary and fictional. In other words, how do we disambiguate between the operational, and the non? That does not mean that we do not find solace, escape, entertainment, ideation, or wisdom in fictional worlds. it does mean that we cannot testify to them or use them in argument (truth testing, evidence, persuasion, law). —“I have observed many, many, demonstrations of this effect which go far beyond pop psych positive thinking, social group effect, and anything else reasonably explicable by conventional Newtonian understanding of a mechanistic universe. “— As far as I know we have understood this phenomenon since the late seventies as nothing more than synchronicity when subject to the same information. We cannot find a single case otherwise. —“Rather, an example of this metaphysical (meaning, we just do not yet know how the black box of the universe does it) effect would be my thinking about a certain extremely unusual item, which I have not seen for many years, while in a fuge state washing dishes in the evening, then the next day driving down the road find that this exact item has literally fallen out of the sky and is laying there on the center line of a deserted stretch of road right in front of me (fell off a truck, presumably).”— (continued….)
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