Entangled Minds Non-locally Transfer Information

One of the steadfast theories of classical physics has been the notion that interactions and the information that is transferred between particles, objects and people is accounted for by known mechanisms.  Furthermore, all interactions are governed by local “cause-and-effect” described by relativistic limits such as the speed of light.  In other words all interactions where information can transfer from one object to another takes place slower than the speed of light and is described by electromagnetism, strong and weak forces, nuclear and chemical reactions and other larger scale mechanisms.

This limit is used by main stream materialists to make the following assumptions: nothing travel beyond the speed of light, including information, since everything is caused by local interactions, it is impossible to have non-local interactions and effects.  This conclusion leads to further arguments that the mind is an emergent “side effect” of the brain and hence no existence outside of the brain is possible.  All of these have evidence to confirm their assumptions, but if in order for these assumptions to be completely valid, they would have to be valid for all cases, irrespective of the testing environment.  If someone were to find repeatable evidence that challenges these assumptions, even one exception, then the entire model and associated assumptions would have to be reevaluated and new theories and models created to account for the exceptions.

As it turns out such studies exist and furthermore, have been repeated by scientists in various disciplines.  Recently measurements by the CERN and OPERA facilities suggesting that Neutrinos may travel faster than the speed of light are being hotly debated in the physics community.  In addition many physicists have replicated the instant entanglement of photons and other small particles coined by Einstein as “Spooky action at a distance.”  In fact, entanglement has been replicated with a variety of particles, atoms and even macromolecules.  This would suggest that we can transfer information between two objects that could be separated by vast distances instantly.  The difficulty is in the verification which is still limited to slower than the speed of light.

To make things even more interesting, it appears that “entangled minds” can transfer information without using classical mechanisms as well.  Studies at several labs around the world have replicated, using several different measurement methods, that two people that have been interacting can unconsciously transfer information from one mind to another.  In Spiritual Evolution: How Science Redefines Our Existence I describe these studies in detail.  To summarize here, the standard experiments allow the subjects to interact or meditate together for ~20 minutes.  Each subject is then placed in separate chambers that are acoustically and electromagnetically isolated to prevent any typical types of communication.  A measurement method is used to monitor both subjects’ brains (EEG, fMRI, etc.).  One subject’s mind is excited with an evoked stimulus such as a flash of light in one eye while, simultaneously, the second subject is monitored.  The amazing thing is that not only did the 1^st subject’s temporal and spatial brain measurements verify the stimulus, but so did the 2^nd subject’s in the isolated chamber with no stimulus.  These results have been replicated using several different methods by various investigators.  Furthermore, the results show the 2^nd subject’s brain reacting a fraction of a second BEFORE the 1^st subject’s brain.

What are we to make of these results?  First off, it directly challenges the assumption that our mind is confined to the area of our brain since evidence suggests that brains and perhaps minds can transfer information with one another across space AND time without direct physical interactions.  This opens up the possibility that the mind being more than an emergent property of the brain.  It also suggests that the human mind is acquiring and sharing information in non-classical ways.  The exact mechanisms are yet unknown, but some have suggested entanglement as a possibility others feel we have yet to discover the exact mechanism.  Regardless of how the information is transferring the fact it occurs requires us to reexamine what we think we know of the universe and our existence in it.