"...But what about physics and chemistry experiments? Does the person asking the question inevitably affect the answer?"
Yes, it does. Most of my official training/degrees are in Physics & Engineering, but I've also worked as an industrial research chemist. One technique I was instructed in, to get as unbiased results as possible, is for the person running the tests to be kept in the dark as much as possible as to what they were looking for, or what the desired result is (following a strict set of instructions with as little information or goal in mind as possible) -- which can be difficult when dealing with skilled and knowledgeable people
And in my own experimental physics work, I'm kinda like the venerable Pauli -- things have a higher likely-hood to go cray-cray around me than others; which makes experimental physics difficult, but fun! :-).
When you call Elemental Mind by Nick Herbert more accessible, does that mean written for people without a physics background? (Asking for a friend - lol.)
Beautifully expressed and so relevant to this moment
Great essay. Two things came to mind:
1. It's probably worse than you think "Something is wrong in the state of QED
" https://vixra.org/pdf/2002.0011v2.pdf
2. Consciousness appears not to exist in the brain. Best guess seem to be the brain is a transceiver.
"...But what about physics and chemistry experiments? Does the person asking the question inevitably affect the answer?"
Yes, it does. Most of my official training/degrees are in Physics & Engineering, but I've also worked as an industrial research chemist. One technique I was instructed in, to get as unbiased results as possible, is for the person running the tests to be kept in the dark as much as possible as to what they were looking for, or what the desired result is (following a strict set of instructions with as little information or goal in mind as possible) -- which can be difficult when dealing with skilled and knowledgeable people
And in my own experimental physics work, I'm kinda like the venerable Pauli -- things have a higher likely-hood to go cray-cray around me than others; which makes experimental physics difficult, but fun! :-).
A remarkable essay - you write beautifully leading us step by step to something that resonates as true
I notice that the comments under the audio version and the text/illustration version are different.
It might be useful if they could be merged.
Thanks Josh,
Pray for the pinball.
:-)
When you call Elemental Mind by Nick Herbert more accessible, does that mean written for people without a physics background? (Asking for a friend - lol.)
I'm probably not the one able to judge that. But you can read samples from the book and decide for yourself. https://archive.org/details/elementalmindhum0000herb