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by Sheila Lennon
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May 17, 2002 • Last week's weblog

Our Conscious Mind Could Be An Electromagnetic Field: I once showed email and the Web to one of the spaciest, most right-brain people I know, a painter who shrank from technology. After watching for a while, she very slowly said, "This is fascinating. It's a prosthesis for telepathy."

Professor Johnjoe McFadden from the School of Biomedical and Life Sciences at the University of Surrey in the UK believes our conscious mind could be an electromagnetic field. “The theory solves many previously intractable problems of consciousness and could have profound implications for our concepts of mind, free will, spirituality, the design of artificial intelligence, and even life and death,” said. And for telepathy, I suspect.
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