Ah, BPL, I did not mean to imply you were clos eminded -- my sarcasm was directed to Guest, who thought ridicule an appropriate submission. The history of charlatanism is enough to make anyone skeptical. No question, the great beauty of the phsyical universe is that it politely repeats itself exactly, and we can use that as a standard of proof. Great stuff for proving that gravity's acceleration in near-Earth tests is pretty consistently 9.8 m/s/s and that pi will always be 3.14 (or whatever the precise values are).

The question of life force is an order of magnitude removed from these things, though, and is a lot trickier to categorize. Thought has no bounds the way a solid object has, it has no reason to comply with any constant rates of acceleration or density. It is wild-fire when it gets going and can change the rules as quick as you like. So it is a different problem altogether. Unfortunately sorting out the differences and similarities, and finding the cause of them, is a long pursuit. Be that as it may I have always found it a rewarding one. But the bottom line is that you must be true to what you yourself observe. Nothing else will do you much good.

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