tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9030257666913290314.post2236453286928036367..comments2024-03-11T07:53:25.838-04:00Comments on Spirituality, Dreams and Prophecy: Scientific Proof of Biological PrecognitionDoug Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11071107950046910342noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9030257666913290314.post-60108856526923198192012-10-28T01:15:13.139-04:002012-10-28T01:15:13.139-04:00We do not normally attribute causal reasoning to b...We do not normally attribute causal reasoning to babies less than 12 months old. <br />If some experiments do show some responses the appear to indicate causal reasoning, then perhaps we are seing influences of the reactions of associated spirits. <br /><br />In that case, there may be a way (after all) to study some aspects of the inward sources of rationality. I agree that this is not normally possible, but here perhaps there might be a way.Ian Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13225626428359340605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9030257666913290314.post-17820648319417686062012-10-27T23:39:19.365-04:002012-10-27T23:39:19.365-04:00That's a heavy article. Knowledge derived from...That's a heavy article. Knowledge derived from the senses is known to Swedenborg as the "sensual," and its the lowest most natural form of knowledge. There is outward knowledge, but there is inward knowledge that flows in that is not derived from sensory perceptions: "Properly speaking, the sensual man, that is, he who thinks from sensual things, is the external man, and the spiritual and celestial man is the internal man; but the rational man is mediate between the two, and by this, or by what is rational, there is communication of the internal man with the external." (Heavenly Arcana, n. 978-3). Causal reasoning, in the rational mind, thus should have two sources of information, and experiments can only study the outward visible one.Doug Webberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11071107950046910342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9030257666913290314.post-47806615750391547962012-10-24T23:36:00.062-04:002012-10-24T23:36:00.062-04:00That sounds a plausible explanation.
I believe th...That sounds a plausible explanation.<br /><br />I believe that similar processes are behind many of the recent psychological experiments that show unexpected cognitive responses in babies 6-12 monts old. They react to appearances that break normal causal reasoning, for example. A quick search gives the examples described by <a href="http://psych.stanford.edu/~jlm/pdfs/SobelKirkham07.pdf" rel="nofollow">Sobel and Kirkham</a>.Ian Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13225626428359340605noreply@blogger.com