An interesting experiment conducted lately at the Institute for Noetic Sciences: a series of subjects observe screens on which there will be displayed either a pleasant image or a painful image. The image to be shown is chosen by random generation.

A high percentage of people -- statistically significant -- would start blinking faster (an expected response when viewing a painful image) when the painful images were presented. But they would routinely start to do so BEFORE the image was shown and even before the random generator had selected the image.

I don't have the hard numbers; the information is from an interviewer who was there last week.

The implication of this experiment is profound: that knowledge may be non-local in time and space and only made to appear local through the maintenance of individual filters or decisions to act as though it were.

This implication argues that knwoing is not, in the final analysis, a biochemical re-arrangement, but merely produces biochemical sequelae, much as intending to communicate (during a cell phone conversation, for example) produces electromagnetic sequelae. The ideation behind the communication is not necessarily an electromagnetic event.

Rapaire's remote knowing, mentioned above, is anecdotal, but the funny thing is that at a guess 70 or 80 poeple out of 100 will probably have some story of similar phenomena.

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