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All-bones Jones :verified:  profile picture
@nprofile1q... oh my god this paneling layout, zero respect for natural eye-flow. took me like 2 minutes just to figure out which of the panels was supposed to be the second one

he really needs to redo where the speech bubbles are, that second one being so far down it looks like it's 3rd totally destroys the natural pattern of the eye moving around the page

All-bones Jones :verified:  profile picture
@nprofile1q... There is no such thing as supernatural, only things we haven't yet figured out. A more reasonable conclusion is that human attention operates in a yet-undiscovered field energy that is both non-temporal and non-locational yet still produces measurable results, and if someone could overcome this engineering challenge in the last step we'd have a way to finally quantify it.
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I just had a series of pointless but interesting thoughts. A while back, the CIA ran a bunch of studies on psychic phenomena and whatnot. Remote viewing, all that fun stuff. It was called Project Stargate, and it's declassified now. While certain things were definitively fake (telekinesis), the one thing that was definitively REAL was Rupert Sheldrake's experiments on being watched. He didn't simply ask people if they felt like they were being watched, he measured their galvanic skin response. It's how conductive your skin is to electricity. It goes up during stress, surprise, or high emotions. It's a completely subconscious and involuntary response.

People can, in fact, feel when they're being watched. Their body reacts to it. If you feel like you're being watched, you are. The skin acts similarly to how it does under anxiety. The tests ruled out that it was a localized electromagnetic signal like what sharks used. Not only did the body's response still occur when electromagnetically shielded from the person watching them, the same change occurred even when the watcher was doing it remotely through a camera feed in another building on the other side of the country.

This means whatever form the psychic powers/magic/ki/morphic energy/etc take, it is non-local and isn't diminished by distance the way magnets are. This would normally make trying to pin down its structure and develop a measurement tool extremely difficult, BUT, we may have somewhat of a way to measure it.

The global consciousness project runs a bunch of random number generators that they say get streaky when a bunch of people focus their attention on something. If that IS an observed behavior, you could compare the randomness of a handheld RNG device against the galvanic skin response of someone being watched and use that as a reference point to try to make a computer that's more sensitive to this field energy (gets streaky when high GSR) to create a psychic barometer.

It would be an actionable step towards moving psychic powers out of superstition towards something quantifiable and measurable. Like how the thermometer let us get more precise than "feels hot" and "feels cold" and opened up huge fields of engineering and technology, this might be a method of developing a real tool to identify what they are and how they work so that we can figure out what the soul is and how it works.