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From: sunny@sun.uucp (Sunny Kirsten)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy,net.sci,net.misc
Subject: Re: Mind and Brain
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Date: Wed, 18-Jul-84 11:32:40 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 18 11:32:40 1984
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Greetings:
	How presumptuous, to think that "modern" physics has all the answers,
or has the best definition of "energy".  Oh, yes, indeed, the "physicists"
definition is the one to use when talking of "physical" phenomena.  But
there are yet phenomena which "physics" fails to explain, and which, in fact,
appear to contradict some of the "laws" of "physics".  Webster's explains:
EN-ER-GY n. [LL energia, fr. Gk energeia activity, fr. energos active, fr. en
in + ergon work] 1: the capacity of acting or being active <intellectual ~>
2: natural power vigorously asserted <work with ~>
3: the capacity for doing work

ERG n [Gk ergon work - more at WORK]: a cgs unit of work equal to the work
done by a force of one dyne acting through a distance of one centimeter.

Ok, so you CAN measure the PSI energy required for a telekinetic to move
an object with their mind, based on the existing "physics" definition of
energy.  Now, tell me it takes no work (energy) for a telepath to send a PSI
message, or to receive one.  Our "physics" once explained how the sun orbited
the earth.  It doesn't yet explain everything.  PSI phenomena do exist, and
obviously some form of "energy" is involved in the process.  It also happens
to work right through a Faraday cage, so we'll doubt it's an electro-magnetic
phenomenon.  Let's see, gravity works through Faraday cages, so I guess we'll
have to believe in "energy" of the PSI kind, even though we only know about it
that it is NOT electromagnetic.  PSI is definitely "intellectual work", as
Webster's would define it.  

Go back to your physics lab.  There is no life outside of it.  Physicists
have ALL the answers.  And the only useful definitions of words.  Dream on...
{ucbvax|decvax|ihnp4}!sun!sunny(Sunny Kirsten of Sun Microsystems)