Boeing's Psychic Lab By Noah Shachtman
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/07/new-correlation.html
<http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/07/new-correlation.html>

Boeing researchers don't just spend their days designing killer drones
<http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2004/04/62893> and
networked tanks
<http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/06/ever_time_you_t.html> . They
also investigate unexplained powers of the mind, sometimes. Especially
if those times are the late '60s.

This study, New Correlation Between a Human Subject and a Quantum
Mechanical Random Number Generator
<http://stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&iden\
tifier=AD0667953> , conducted in 1967, "tentatively conclude[s]" that
people can basically will particular numbers to appear.

According to the Boeing-ites, there "exists a weak but significant
correlation" between the experiment's "statistical processes" (that
would be the generation of random numbers, "connected to four lamps and
four corresponding pushbuttons") and "the experimenter who initiates the
processes" ("the human subjects, asked to press the buttons... with the
objective in mind of obtaining a high number of coincidences").

There's no mention of follow-up studies. But this Boeing experiment is
one of a number of fringe and alternative science projects we found
after a quick dig through the online archives of the Defense Technical
Information Center <http://stinet.dtic.mil/> . You'll get a kick out of
the others. So keep reading...

Group Norms and Dissonance Reduction in Belief, Behavior, and Judgment
<http://stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&iden\
tifier=AD0684816> : "Forty-four female subjects met in groups of four,
each in a separate booth, and were asked to report whether or not they
received 'ESP images' which were presumably projected by a 'sender' in
another room," during this 1960 military-backed study at UCLA. "Half
the Ss, in a control condition, were unaware of the responses of others.
For the others, in the experimental condition, a device... gave each
subject the impression that the other three Ss had received images on 23
of 30 trials. It was found that, particularly, in the control condition,
reported reception of ESP images was a function of one's initial belief
in ESP."

An Analysis of the Relationship Among Meditation, Personality Type and
Control of Brain Wave Production
<http://stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&iden\
tifier=AD0776313> : "In recent years scientists in every nation have
come to realize that voluntary control of behavior is of primary
importance if one hopes to establish an ordered society or even to
maintain a society. Meditation has been known and practiced by Asian
people, especially Indians, for many hundreds of years," notes this 1973
paper from the Naval Postgraduate School. "With the aid of the
biofeedback technique, it is believed that the study of altered states
of consciousness, creativity, parapsychology, personality type,
psychosomatic medicine, therapy, and education, etc., could be greatly
enhanced."

Photon Quenching of the Paranormal (Time) Channel
<http://stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&iden\
tifier=ADA038588> (and others): Lt. Col. Thomas Bearden started out, in
this 1974 study
<http://stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&iden\
tifier=ADA005579> for the Army Medical Intelligence and Information
Agency, "searching for a way to break the deadlock in which physics,
mathematics, and philosophy are all entangled." By the time 1976
<http://stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&iden\
tifier=ADA027866> rolls around, he's advancing:

a fourth law of logic together with the first three Aristotlean laws of
logic form a complete, closed metalogic encompassing both physics and
metaphysics. A cluster of an infinite number of orthogonal 3-dimensional
spatial frames, all containing the same single fourth dimension, or time
axis, provides a framework onto which mind, matter, fields, being, life,
and both physical and metaphysical phenomena can be fitted and precisely
modelled. Thus metaphysics can be precisely modelled by, and related to,
physics. A mind becomes a complete 3-dimensional physical world. From
the model, constructs that model life, death, a biological system, psi,
consciousness, inception, telepathy, psychokinesis, UFO's, God, and the
collective unconscious can be taken. Materialization, dematerialization,
and mind linkage also exist, as does a specific mechanism for tulpas
(materialized thought forms).

He also, apparently, figured out "the Hieronymus device, the mind/body
problem, the nature of mind, the nature of nothing, and the difficulties
in the logical basis of probability." Your military research dollars,
hard at work.

ALSO:

* Pentagon's Psychic Vision Revisited
<http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/06/dinner-with.html>

* Psychic Commanders, ESP Pigeons in Military Studies
<http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/06/psychokinesis-a.html>

* Cyberpanic crowd pushes "psychic information warfare"
<http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/06/cyberwar_panic_.html>



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