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I was tearing last week's newspapers into strips and twisting them into firelighters for the winter when I came across this story.
Scientists have sent a ‘mental message’ from one person to another 4,000 miles away in what they claim is the world’s first successful telepathy experiment.
My first thought was that we all use telepathy every day in our conversations with
, but this story is about 2 people - one in India, the other in France - communicating with each other without words. Now this sounded like witchcraft. But there are so many holes in the story that I can make no sense of it.
1. First off, they tried to communicate the single Italian word "ciao". Apparently this is pronounced "chow", like the English for food, or the weird-looking dog, and it means both hello and goodbye (how typical of the lazy Eyeties). So here's the first question: if you're going to get 2 people to send a one-word message, why choose a word that's not in either of their languages? Plus, why choose a word with so many different meanings? This is Genesis 11:7 taken to extremes.
Why not make it easy and have them think of a picture, something simple like this:
Then nobody would have to worry about the word for rose in French, whatever that may be, or in Sioux or Navajo or whatever gobbledygook the Indian spoke.
2. They had internet connections and headsets:
Excuse me if I'm missing the point here, but in that case why didn't they just use email or Skype? Is secular science all about making things needlessly complicated?
3. IT DIDN'T WORK!
Right, like that's going to work! I send a message that says Hi (or See You, or Food, or Dog) and you see some flashing lights.
4.
Something like a telephone, then, but less efficient.
Brothers and Sisters, why was this even reported in the quality press?
Yours in Faith, but in this case also in Confusion,
Joanna
Scientists have sent a ‘mental message’ from one person to another 4,000 miles away in what they claim is the world’s first successful telepathy experiment.
My first thought was that we all use telepathy every day in our conversations with
, but this story is about 2 people - one in India, the other in France - communicating with each other without words. Now this sounded like witchcraft. But there are so many holes in the story that I can make no sense of it. 1. First off, they tried to communicate the single Italian word "ciao". Apparently this is pronounced "chow", like the English for food, or the weird-looking dog, and it means both hello and goodbye (how typical of the lazy Eyeties). So here's the first question: if you're going to get 2 people to send a one-word message, why choose a word that's not in either of their languages? Plus, why choose a word with so many different meanings? This is Genesis 11:7 taken to extremes.
Why not make it easy and have them think of a picture, something simple like this:
Then nobody would have to worry about the word for rose in French, whatever that may be, or in Sioux or Navajo or whatever gobbledygook the Indian spoke.
2. They had internet connections and headsets:
They connected one person in Mumbai, India, to a wireless headset linked to the internet, and another person to a similar device in Paris.
3. IT DIDN'T WORK!
The subject receiving the message could not comprehend the word itself, but could report flashes of light in their brain that corresponded to the exact moment when the word ‘ciao’ was being thought.
4.
‘We are using technology to interact electromagnetically with the brain.’
Brothers and Sisters, why was this even reported in the quality press?
Yours in Faith, but in this case also in Confusion,
Joanna
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