As for the other two links, the first one sounds like nonsense; the “research” was not peer-reviewed, replicated or verified and was “released exclusively to the Daily Mail”, a well-known London tabloid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail). The article he linked is from The Evening Standard, another British tabloid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evening_Standard), and asserts that “Virtually all the great scientific formulae which explain how the world works allow information to flow backwards and forwards through time—they can work either way, regardless.”, as well as a great deal of other obvious nonsense. The second one lists a number of anecdotes, none of which have sources, identifying references or even names.
Information flowing both backward and forward through time is obviously useless to us since we perceive and move in only one direction. It’s not obviously nonsense. Our perception moves forward through time, so it seems obvious to us that cause leads to effect.
However… if, in fact, the effect precipitates the cause… Or some feedback combination of both… How would we actually be able to tell? Our perception only computes in one direction so we always see the cause half of it first and then the effect.
If there were people reliable enough at passing information back to their past selves to beat random chance though I expect they would already have found a way to make use of it.
“Got protocol? Yes or no?”
If there was any actual evidence, somebody would have claimed Randi’s million-dollar prize years ago. I wasn’t able to find a copy of “The Irreducible Mind” online; it doesn’t have a Wikipedia article and apparently isn’t that popular. A quick Google of the authors reveals that only one (Bruce Greyson) has a Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Greyson). The lead author, Edward F. Kelly, is employed as a professor of “Perceptual Studies” at the University of Virginia Health System (http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/personalitystudies/Edbio.cfm) and has a PhD. from Harvard in “Psycholinguistics/Cognitive Science”. The authors seem to work mainly within the field of psychology, asserting that it has “no explanation” for the human mind (http://www.amazon.com/Irreducible-Mind-hard-find-contemporary/dp/customer-reviews/0742547922).
As for the other two links, the first one sounds like nonsense; the “research” was not peer-reviewed, replicated or verified and was “released exclusively to the Daily Mail”, a well-known London tabloid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail). The article he linked is from The Evening Standard, another British tabloid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evening_Standard), and asserts that “Virtually all the great scientific formulae which explain how the world works allow information to flow backwards and forwards through time—they can work either way, regardless.”, as well as a great deal of other obvious nonsense. The second one lists a number of anecdotes, none of which have sources, identifying references or even names.
Information flowing both backward and forward through time is obviously useless to us since we perceive and move in only one direction. It’s not obviously nonsense. Our perception moves forward through time, so it seems obvious to us that cause leads to effect.
However… if, in fact, the effect precipitates the cause… Or some feedback combination of both… How would we actually be able to tell? Our perception only computes in one direction so we always see the cause half of it first and then the effect.
If there were people reliable enough at passing information back to their past selves to beat random chance though I expect they would already have found a way to make use of it.