Experimental evidence and verified individual accounts show that visual and other types of inform... more Experimental evidence and verified individual accounts show that visual and other types of information from distant minds and environments can enter the conscious as well as the unconscious mind of an individual and can measurably affect brain and body function. The information appears to pass through every physical obstacle and does not degrade in quality with increasing distance in the path between source and receiver. No signal can be detected with current physical instrumentation. What is the medium in which this "psi-encoded information" appears to propagate? What is its format? What is its lifetime? Selected examples of apparent psi information propagation from differing types of sources are presented and analyzed. In order to account for the behavior observed in the examples, a worldview developed in the Advaitic thought tradition is considered, in which a non-physical domain interacts with the physical domain of matter-energy and spacetime. A main currency of the non-physical domain is postulated to be psi-encoded information. It is concluded that this information does not propagate through space. Other characteristics of the non-physical domain and its content are inferred from the examples. They provide a framework in which the nature of psi-encoded information and its processing may be further explored.
A new framework and model called "TAM" is proposed that unifies consciousness and psychic-type ph... more A new framework and model called "TAM" is proposed that unifies consciousness and psychic-type phenomena.
A model for consciousness is proposed based on Nisargadatta Maharaj ‘s interpretation of Jnana Yo... more A model for consciousness is proposed based on Nisargadatta Maharaj ‘s interpretation of Jnana Yoga/Advaita Vedanta. Concepts from modern physics, neuroscience, and information science are integrated into that framework. A novel understanding of information in the context of a system with consciousness is proposed. Information generated in the neurophysiology of a brain’s unique “wiring structure” is hypothesized to become dissociated from the neurophysiology and transformed into a universal format within a nonphysical domain in which consciousness is assumed to occur. Sharing features with Bohm’s Implicate Order, the nonphysical domain has nonlocal properties which support instant correlation of information throughout. The energy of a carrier is not needed to transport information in the nonphysical domain. This allows for low-energy neurological systems to transfer information associated with thought across large distances, as observed in telepathic psi phenomena. An experiment to test for the existence of a nonphysical dimension that supports instant telepathic information transfer is discussed. It is argued that three is the minimum number of aspects necessary to model a practical framework for consciousness.
Visual recognition is achieved by a hierarchy of bidirectionally connected cortical areas. The en... more Visual recognition is achieved by a hierarchy of bidirectionally connected cortical areas. The entry of signals into higher areas involves the serial sampling of information within a movable window of attention. Here we explore how the cortex can move this window and integrate the sampled information. To make this concrete, we modeled the process of visual word recognition by hierarchical cortical areas representing features, letters, and words. At the start of the recognition process, nodes representing all contextually possible words are active. Simple connectivity rules allow a parallel top-down (T-D) computation of the relative probability of each feature at each location given the set of active words. This information is then used to guide the window of attention to information-rich features (e.g., a feature that is present in the visual image but has lowest probability). Bottom-up processing of this feature excludes words that do not contain it and leads to T-D recomputation o...
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to become dissociated from the neurophysiology and transformed into a universal format within a nonphysical domain in which consciousness is assumed to occur. Sharing features with Bohm’s Implicate Order, the nonphysical domain has nonlocal properties which support instant correlation of information throughout. The energy of a carrier is not needed to transport information in the nonphysical domain. This allows
for low-energy neurological systems to transfer information associated with thought across large distances, as observed in telepathic psi phenomena. An experiment to test for the existence of a nonphysical dimension that supports instant telepathic information transfer is discussed. It is argued that three is the minimum number of aspects necessary to model a practical framework for consciousness.