Post-materialist science manifesto (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, February 22, 2015, 00:49 (3562 days ago)

I can certainly accept this as very plausible:-http://www.opensciences.org/files/pdfs/Manifesto-for-a-Post-Materialist-Science.pdf-"15. According to the post-materialist paradigm:
a) Mind represents an aspect of reality as primordial as the physical world. Mind is fundamental in the universe, i.e. it cannot be derived from matter and reduced to anything more basic.-b) There is a deep interconnectedness between mind and the physical world.-c) Mind (will/intention) can influence the state of the physical world, and operate in a nonlocal (or extended) fashion, i.e. it is not confined to specific points in space, such as brains and bodies, nor to specific points in time, such as the present. Since the mind may nonlocally influence the physical world, the intentions, emotions, and desires of an experimenter may not be completely isolated from experimental outcomes, even in controlled and blinded experimental designs.-d) Minds are apparently unbounded, and may unite in ways suggesting a unitary, One Mind that includes all individual, single minds. -e) NDEs in cardiac arrest suggest that the brain acts as a transceiver of mental activity, i.e. the mind can work through the brain, but is not produced by it. NDEs occurring in cardiac arrest, coupled with evidence from research mediums, further suggest the survival of consciousness, following bodily death, and the existence of other levels of reality that are non-physical.-f) Scientists should not be afraid to investigate spirituality and spiritual experiences since they represent a central aspect of human existence."