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Professor: effects
can precede causes
What
will happen in the future might affect the decisions made now.
That
is the premise of a lecture to take place Friday at the Rhine Research
Center by Daryl Bem, professor of Psychology at Cornell University.
Bem
conducts experiments in precognitive habituation, a branch of
psychology which flirts with quantum mechanics and looks into whether
upcoming events influence the present.
"I
challenge you to find any phenomenon where information goes backward in
time," Bem said.
In
1980, Bem was asked to speak at a gathering of the Parapsychology
Association.
He
said he'd been a performing magician for quite some time, and the
association wanted him to speak about how one could use magic tricks to
fake the results of a scientific experiment dealing with psi - the
scientific term for extra-sensory perception.
"Up
till that point, I was a skeptic," he said. "I didn't think there was
anything real to ESP."
Since
then, Bem has held positions at colleges such as Harvard and Stanford,
conducting experiments, which he says produce evidence that premonition
is real.
"My
strategy then is to take well-known phenomena and reverse cause and
effect," he said.
In
Bem's study, he shows a subject two pictures on a computer screen. The
subject chooses the image they like better.
The
computer then randomly chooses to flash one of the images on the screen
for a duration of 17 milliseconds - not enough time to be consciously
registered by the subject.
Bem
said subjects chose the image which will be flashed approximately 3 to
5 percent more often than pure chance would predict.
"The
important thing about a precognition experiment is that no one knows,
not even the computer, what the pictures will be," he said.
Bem
said the harshest criticism of this research comes from psychologists.
"Psychologists
are very aware of how evidence can be wrong," he said, adding that he
won't make claims if he doubts the findings.
"Extraordinary
claims require extraordinary evidence," he said. "That's something that
we all believe."
Bem
said he that has found quantum physics to be entwined with his work.
"The
general idea here is that I don't think it will ever be possible to
explain psi by using a Newtonian view of the world," he said.
The
challenge of proving the reality of precognition is a driving force,
Bem said.
"One
of the reasons I so much enjoy doing work on precognition is that it's
the most difficult to explain," he said.
