Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 21:50:16 +0100
From: Chris Lees <chrislees@easynet.co.uk>
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Re: "scientism"
Bill wrote:
> Chris, While I think Jake is needlessly abrasive, I tend to agree with his
> assessement of this paper, at least as you have presented it. I haven't
> read the paper in full. I know only what you originally posted to this
> list and what you've said above. That doesn't tell me enough to make any
> judgement about whether the results mean much of anything.
>
> It is generally impossible to find the "signature" of a specific stimulus
> in EEG patterns. Without a fairly detailed characterization of the EEG
> patterns that are being correlated it is impossible for me to make any
> judgement about whether or not that correlation indicates generally similar
> states of mind (e.g. high alpha output) or something very much more
> specific.
Here is the URL for the journal which featured the original paper.
I still can't seem to get at the actual archive copy via that route.
http://www.physicsessays.com/
Here is the site with a commentary, including images of the evoked
potentials.
http://www.swcp.com/~hswift/swc/members/9701/swift21.html
And here is another commentary by Sarfatti.
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/seeker1/noetics/quantum-brain.html
Chris.
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~chrislees/tao.index.html
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