The hero of the "Matrix" Morpheus ", as you know, has long explained that there is reality:" There is a set of sensations, visual, tactile, olfactory - these are receptor signals, electrical impulses perceived by the brain. "He said how he cut off. But, no, there still distrustful, who doubt that only five senses are associated with the external world of a person: sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste.
Science is a slow lady. While the old woman is taking her first steps in the study of the sixth sense, Hollywood, led by "die hard" Bruce Willis, ran many kilometers ahead. What is there to think, there is a sixth sense - and that's it. Following the "dream factory" millions of its viewers are sure of this. Numerous talk shows with the participation of psychics only add fuel to the "fortuneteller" fire.
But according to the sociopsychologist from St. Petersburg Yevgeny Yakushev, you should not overestimate people with developed intuition: “There are different psychotypes of people. Including there are people with imaginative intelligence. This is a special sensitivity of the nervous system and a special ability to perceive the world through the prism of images, feelings, emotions. It is such people who can feel the mood of another person, empathize with him and very subtly perceive any emotional fluctuations. Most psychics are people with imaginative intelligence."
The emotional component is very important in understanding the nature of the sixth sense. According to scientists, it is possible for a person to receive information at a distance without special devices. Emotions in this case are a guide. Even a blind person can "see" them.
Blind are not blind
Neurologist Beatrice De Gelder from Tilburg University (Holland) took up experiments with blind people. I came to the conclusion: the blind are not so blind. True, Beatrice's patients had only one blind eye.
The essence of the experiment is quite interesting: with the healthy eye, the patients observed neutral photographs, while the blind eye were presented with photographs of people displaying strong emotion. It turned out that the patients imitated faces from photographs in which the affects were captured, despite the fact that they could not see them. A similar reaction was observed when people observed the same images with a healthy eye.
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Beatrice De Gelder concluded that a person is able to empathize with emotions without even seeing them. “We need to pay close attention to conversations about the sixth sense, because we do not yet have a clear idea of the ability of the brain,” - quoted by De Gelder company Discovery.
Hello! Weather Control Center?
Dr. Roger Nelson from Princeton University (USA) has few experiments with the blind. He is convinced that human thoughts represent a collective mind that spans the entire planet. This global consciousness reacts to events in the world, and sometimes even anticipates them.
After years of research, Nelson began using random number generator (RNG) technology. According to the scientist, a person is able to influence the RNG with his thoughts. Neither more nor less. The doctor's bold conclusions led to the creation of the so-called Global Consciousness project - an RNG network distributed all over the world. The network continuously sends data to the server and records all kinds of "manifestations" of a probable global consciousness. When tens or millions of people focus their consciousness on a certain object, then they are able to quite realistically influence it. These changes may even affect the weather. Have you laughed for a long time at the friends of the USSR from Africa who make it rain? They laugh at you too.
Evgeny Yakushev notes that the collective mind is a well-known phenomenon, and each of us had such an experience at least once in our life. “The collective unconscious is what it is. It is this that drives us through certain desires, types of thinking, properties of the psyche. This is all related to the unconscious. When a certain number of people enter a single state of consciousness, then it is already like one body with different organs and functions. This is very noticeable at a stadium or a big concert. But I am not yet talking about the transmission of thoughts at a distance,”the sociopsychologist emphasizes.
I know you are looking at me
Billboard makers with this slogan are clearly aware of the experiments of the British biologist Rupert Sheldrake. The one who came up with the idea of the existence of the so-called morphic fields. Have you seen a wedge of cranes, beautiful in their perfection, flying south? For sure. However, at that moment you may have recalled Zabolotsky's cranes, or perhaps a well-known film. Dr. Sheldrake, seeing a crane, of course thinks about science. And not only cranes, the same applies to fish, schools of which can change their movement in a second. Everything happens with perfect synchronicity and precision. According to Sheldrake, the reason for this is morphic fields.
These fields are generated by all living beings on the planet and organize their activities. The work of the brain and mind, according to the biologist, is also in the "department" of these fields. Have you ever felt with your "spinal cord" how someone is staring at you? Here. If Dr. Sheldrake was next to you at that moment, he would definitely tell about his experiments, where his subjects were in exactly the same situation. Sitting with his back to the experimenter, the subject had to determine whether they were looking at him or not. At this time, the experimenter either looked away from the person, then, when he wanted, again concentrated all his attention on him.
The result of the experiment was unambiguous: a person is able to determine whether someone is looking at him or not. Is this not proof of certain fields, and that the mind is able to go beyond our heads with you?
Sheldrake's research was supported by a few scientists. “If morphic fields actually existed, they would have been discovered long ago,” skeptics argue.
According to a psychologist from St. Petersburg Yevgeny Yakushev, the sensation of someone else's gaze occurs due to the work of mirror neurons: “Mirror neurons are neurons in the brain that are excited both when performing a certain action and when observing the performance of this action by another creature. They make no distinction between us and others, or what we imagine. And yet each of us has a set of our own smells, pheromones, through which the unconscious reading of information also takes place."
About it"
American physicist and psychologist Daryl Bam believes that the sixth sense is not just a fashionable "toy" in the hands of scientists. And mankind needs this feeling for procreation. Daryl set up an experiment where he showed students two monitors hidden behind screens. He reported that one of them displayed an image of an erotic nature, offering to guess which one. Happy students found the monitor they were looking for a little more often than they should.
In the sense that if their choice was pure chance. “Evolution governs fertility, the ability to seek and find sexual partners. Therefore, it would be reasonable to assume that foreboding will provide reproduction and human survival opportunities,”Discovery quotes Deril Bam.
What was, what will be?
Sociopsychologist Yevgeny Yakushev is also sure that the sixth sense is real. Only in some people it is more pronounced than in others. In his opinion, it is with such people that one should work. “I prefer to talk about exactly what is clearly expressed,” says the psychologist. All these properties are innate, they can be developed and realized only if a person has a special type of intelligence, a special sensitive area in the body and an understanding of his own characteristics. Such people are not more than five percent of the total population."
While the sixth sense is partly a matter of faith. What scientists will come to in the future - you can guess: what happened? What will happen? How will you calm down?
NAKED SCIENCE February 2013