http://www.metafilter.com/tags/RupertSheldrake Posts tagged with 'RupertSheldrake' at MetaFilter. Tue, 21 Oct 2003 18:47:51 -0800 Tue, 21 Oct 2003 18:47:51 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/29085/Conman%2Dthe%2Dnext%2DEinstein%2Dor <a href=http://www.sheldrake.org/>Rupert Sheldrake</a>, author of <a href=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/ix=books&rank=%2Bsalesrank&fqp=author%01Sheldrake%2C%20Rupert&nsp=score%01proj-unit-sales%02bin-fields%01none%02fpn%011&sz=10&pg=1/ref=s_b_pp/103-1446712-4186216>several books</a> (<a href="http://www.sheldrake.org/papers/Staring/">The Sense of Being Stared At</a>; <a href="http://www.sheldrake.org/papers/Animals/index.html">Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home</a>) that detail evidence for the existence of various extra-sensory perceptions. In <a href=http://murl.microsoft.com/LectureDetails.asp?1035>a lecture for Microsoft Research </a><small><b>[page contains link to a 73 minute streaming ASX file]</b></small> </b> entitled "The Extended Mind: Recent <a href="http://www.sheldrake.org/experiments/">Experimental</a> Evidence", he attacks the mechanistic view of nature and the materialistic view of the mind, and presents his own theory, which involves fields of <a href="http://www.sheldrake.org/glossary/#morphic">Morphic Resonance</a>, <a href="http://www.sheldrake.org/glossary/#formative causation, hypothesis">formative causation</a>, and what he calls <a href="http://www.sheldrake.org/glossary/#mind">"The Extended Mind"</a>. <small><small>Feel free to dismiss <i>after</i> watching.</small></small> tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.29085 Tue, 21 Oct 2003 18:47:51 -0800 ESP ExtraSensoryPerception lecture Microsoft mind perception research RupertSheldrake goethean