[MD] Intention changes physical world

[Case]

[Platt]
If those of a scientific bent are looking for evidence of Pirsig's 
metaphysics that presupposes a Dynamic force that affected physical 
evolution, Jahn and Dunne's experiments should satisfy.

[Case]
An interesting post Platt, that raises several interesting issues. The first
is that taken at face value what Jahn and Dunne showed was an effect where
human intent had its effect on 1 in 10,000 of these micro events. Not an
especially profound effect. Second if you look a little deeper your will see
that most investigators are skeptical for other reason. Was the "random"
equipment in the experiments really random in the way the researchers claim?
Were trials done where subject ignored the equipment? Where the results
reproducible by others in the field or even the same researchers? It turns
out, no.

Third this really illustrates the problem with this and all
parapsychological research to date. It is not that it has not been done, it
is that it either gets done badly or it does not show any meaningful
results. From J.B. Rhine to Charles Tarts to Rupert Sheldrake to Jahn and
Dunne this line in inquiry has a long history of ambitious claims supported
by little but wishful thinking.