morphic resonance
You know the saying, "What happens twice will happen three times."
Alfred Rupert Sheldrake is a British former biochemist and plant physiologist. he has thought, there is always truth in this.
He has tried to define this as a word of "morphic resonance".
I will often quote "morphic resonance " in my site. In general his theory is called, "Morphogenetic Field Theory".
Briefly, his idea goes as follows: an occurrence, which happened in a man (or a thing), is transmitted to the other man (or the other thing),
although they do not have any close contact one another.
- Every system of morphogenetic field inherits from the morphogenetic fields of previous similar systems. (a temporal correlation)
- The occurrence, which occurred to the distant place, influences the occurrence of another side. (a spatial correlation)
- This can be available not only a morph but also acting.
- The procces of "morphogenetic field", called "morphic resonance", causes these occurrences.
We feel "What happens twice will happen three times." in everyday life.
You sometimes receive several telephone calls from those different at a same time.
Although they do not have any relationship with each others.
What is the percentage of which the case occurs?
Your knee sometimes hits against the edge of your desk two times or more on the same day.
What is the percentage of which the case occurs?
The calculated results of these cases are very low probabilities.
Are the cases miracles?
No, they are merely mundane events.
We feel more natural for us to receive them as "morphic resonance" than as miracles.
Many persons say that Sheldrake's theory is pseudoscientific and criticize him strongly in public.
However, they only believe in "a homogeneous random chance" while ignoring "the bias of chance".
It is easy to criticize him without an alternative theory.
Nobody can explain the bias of chance, such as the story of telephone or knee-ache.
Strictly speaking, nobody has proved that "a homogeneous random chance" can exist in the real world yet.
Before makeing light of his theory, they have to reconsider correctly the modality of "chance" "accident" or "fortune".
Such like this contention is called "metaphysical questions" in general.
Experiment on television
@On BBC in 1983, there was a series of television experiments that used hidden images in puzzle pictures (see illustration below).
Puzzle Pictures for BBC Experiment
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Puzzle Picture 1
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Puzzle Picture 2
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The experiment needs two puzzle pictures.
One and its answer are not showed on TV. (=Image-1)
The other and its answer are showed on TV to 2 million viewers.(=Image-2)
Before the broadcast, 1000 numbers of people were tested about the two pictures.(=Group-A)
After the broadcast, the different group of 800 numbers of people are tested about the two pictures.(=Group-B)
The both of the groups are selected in those who live in remote area from the broadcast.
In the result, the percentage of questions answered correctly of Image-1 was 9.2% in Group-A, and 10.0% in Group-B.
That of Image-2 was 3.9% in Group-A, and 6.8% in Group-B.
Therefore, we can find much increase in percentage of questions answered correctly about the image which are shown on TV than the other image.
This experiment has made Sheldrake famous.
the hidden images
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Picture 1
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Picture 2
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Sheldrake also has advocated,"
Memory and experience are saved not in a brain but the a place,like a server, being classified by kinds.
And a brain is only a mere receiver.
The recovery of amnesia would be explained by this concept."
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