The sense of being stared at
and other aspects of the extended mind
by Rupert Sheldrake · first published 2003
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…thread, or blowing on card to move them, later admitted by the test subjects. > "commonly represented by the feeling one gets if another person is watching them." I have a copy of Rupert Sheldrake's "The sense of being stared at", maybe I should get round to reading it one day. > "Im not implying these these are true, but it is interesting to see how they formed several arguments describing events today we have a more sophisticated…
on “Harnessing telepathy using quantum mechanics” ↗…beam of energy, this view is typically dismissed by science. If you start with an assumption, the end result will probably be compatible with the assumption. Rupert Sheldrake wrote a book titled The Sense of Being Stared At [0]. I recently found a copy at a thrift store (it was on my stack of books that I've yet to read). Dr. Sheldrake does not adopt materialist science's assumptions. Perhaps the eyes do not exactly emit…
on “Implicit model of other people’s visual attention as an invisible beam” ↗…happening to look when someone else is happening to look, or worse, attracting looks when you check for someone looking? I'm sure you could figure out an experimental protocol. The book I referenced, The Sense of Being Stared At, presumably applies mathematics and statistics to the experiments. But I haven't read it, and I don't care enough at the present time to really dig into the text and respond to your whole comment. Chapter…
on “Implicit model of other people’s visual attention as an invisible beam” ↗Makes me think of Rupert Sheldrake and his book "The Sense of Being Stared At".
on “Owls discover and get rid of a hidden camera which tracks their movements” ↗…Sheldrake, he writes about these ideas, and then goes off to test them. See Seven Experiments that Could Change the World, and his later books which tested the effects. A meta-analysis has supported the sense of being stared at. I will find the link later and included it. I believe it was in the British Journal of Social Pyschology around 2005.
on “TEDx talks discredited: Sheldrake speaks, argues that speed of light is dropping” ↗This reminds me of Sheldrake testing the dog who knew when its owner was heading home, and studying "the sense of being stared at," etc. Institute of Noetic Sciences? Or is that too soft a science? No idea, just things that popped up as I read the quote.
on “You Share Everything with Your Friends, Even Brain Waves” ↗…conclusively demonstrated not to exist (which would, in any case, be impossible) it might be worthwhile to figure out what the hell is going on with these experiments. There was also a meta analysis on the sense of being stared at which has never been refuted, link below. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1348/00071260477395244... I actually ran an experiment on this (for my undergrad thesis) but didn't demonstrate significance…
on “Stop Ridiculing Ideas” ↗