Evidence That Your Mind is NOT Just In Your Brain - Rupert Sheldrake | After Skool
Summary
Rupert Sheldrake challenges the materialist view that consciousness is confined to the brain, proposing instead that the mind extends outward as invisible fields similar to gravitational or electromagnetic forces. He argues that vision involves extramission, where images are projected from the mind to the world rather than merely received, a concept supported by historical theories and modern studies on the sense of being stared at. By citing experiments on scopaesthesia and the persistence of intuitive beliefs about gaze, Sheldrake suggests that liberating the mind from the physical head o…
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Critique of localist materialist brain theories
The concept of fields in physics and nature
Proposal: Mind fields extend beyond the body
The mystery of vision and the intromission theory
Extramission theory and Euclid's explanation of mirrors
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Gerald Weiner's study on visual perception beliefs
Arvid Gootsman's research on gaze force and fMRI
Scopesthesia: The sense of being stared at
Directionality and practical awareness in surveillance
Experimental evidence for the sense of being stared at
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Evolutionary origins and electromagnetic interface of mind
Descartes' dualism and the extended mind hypothesis
Conclusion and resources for further research
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