Re: China Psychic Research Hard Scientific Data

From: Dr. Photon (brendan.roycroft_at_nmrc.ie)
Date: 02/25/05 

Date: 25 Feb 2005 13:57:33 -0800

"Q-on" <physicsofchi@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<1109131463.880052.113810@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>...
> Some common sense.
>
> What is the function of Qi that nothing else can be attributed to cause
> that
> same function?
>
> It's organization of distinct parts.
[snip]

Have you read up on Ilya Prigogine? He got the Nobel prize for
studying how order/organization arises.

You can get started at

http://nobelprize.org/chemistry/laureates/1977/prigogine-lecture.pdf

and there are many websites discussing the issues if you do a quick
search.

He starts off talking about thermodynamics, and goes on to prove how
order can arise from randomness. All you need is a power supply of the
ordinary kind (heat), no qi needed.

Subjectively, this can give the illusion that there is some guiding
force or organizational hidden element, but he actually showed
*mathematically* that you are *almost certain* to get organization
from randomness under various circumstances. He also did the
experiments, connected the experiments and theory, and ended up with
the Nobel for his efforts.

Creationists have been having a hard time with this for ages now, and
still think that order/evolution proves the existence of God or some
higher power. Prigogine showed how organization alone does not prove
this, and can be explained by normal means.

BR