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De "psyche" van levende wezens wordt afdoende verklaard door hun hersenstructuur en -werking.
Het bestaan van enige "geest" buiten deze psyche of buiten werkende hersenen is op geen enkele wijze aangetoond.
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Journal of Scientific Exploration~,Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 223-229, 1995 0892-33 10195
0 1995 Society for Scientific Exploration
Psychokinetic Action of Young Chicks
on the Path of An Illuminated Source1
RENE PEOC'H
4 rue rks Genets, 44640 Saint Jean de Boiseclu, Frcince
Abstract - We tested the possible psychokinetic influence of 80 groups of
15 chicks on a randomly moving robot carrying a lighted candle in an otherwise
darkened room. In 7 1 % of the cases, the robot spent excessive time in
the vicinity of the chicks. In the absence of the chicks, the robot followed
random trajectories. The overall results were statistically significant at
p < 0.01.
Introduction
For the past 25 years, researchers in parapsychology have invented numerous
devices driven by random sources to test the hypothesis that consciousness
could alter their performance. For example, H. Schmidt (1 970, 197 1, 1973),
built an apparatus. which randomly selected the numbers 0, 1, 2 and 3 in an
equal distribution,and demonstrated that one or the other numbers would appear
more frequently in the presence of a human subject who tried consciously
to will this variation to occur. The results were significantly different from
the random expectation at probability of 1110,000. Since then, many other
experimenters have confirmed a psychic influence of humans on such "Random
Generators" (Radin & Nelson, 1989; Jahn et a]., 1987).
In an initial experiment (Peoc'h, 1986), we established that young chicks
aged from 1 to 7 days could attract towards them a robot controlled by a random
generator, and we subsequently developed this research further with the
use of a conceptually new machine, the Tychoscope 1, invented by P. Janin
(1977, 1988). (The name Tychoscope derives from the Greek "tukhe", which
means chance, and "skopein", which means to examine.) This was a small,
self-propelled robot driven by an internal random generator to move about on
a level surface in successive segments of random length and orientation. A
plotter attached to the robot traced a record of the movements, allowing graphic
recording of the path of the vehicle. The use of baby chicks was motivated
not only by the fact that they are easily obtained and maintained, but also by
the fact that birds are readily imprinted (Lorentz, 1978). After hatching from
the egg, many species of baby birds adopt the first close moving object as
their mother. We conditioned our chicks to adopt the Tychoscope as their
mother, by placing them for one hour alone in the presence of the moving
robot, every day for six days after their birth.
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