The tip of the iceberg: placebo, experimenter expectation and interference phenomena in subconscious information flow

Authors

  • Lian Sidorov International Consciousness Research Laboratories
  • Roger Nelson
  • Larry Dossey
  • Lyn Buchanan
  • Brian Millar
  • Hideyuki Kokubo
  • Margaret Moga
  • Jean Burns
  • Daz Smith
  • Marty Rosenblatt
  • Angela Thompson Smith
  • Ulrich Mohrhoff
  • Matti Pitkanen
  • Anna Aragno
  • Kean Hin Ooi
  • Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi

Keywords:

Decline Effect, Placebo, Quantum Entanglement, Nonlocality, Consciousness, Retrocausality, Quantum Biology, Bioelectromagnetics, Genetic Regulatory Systems, Remote Viewing

Abstract

A multi-disciplinary dialogue on the experimental evidence for nonlocal bio-communication, its emergent characteristics, impact on mainstream sciences and future research directions.

 


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2013-06-20