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Dick J. Bierman (University of Amsterdam, Utrecht University) has been active
in the field of parapsychology for over two decades, though he is skeptical
about the reality of psi phenomena. At least in the way we understand objective
reality, the world of public and shared data.
In his recent article, he suggests that in order to accommodate psi phenomena
we might have to propose new types of realities, intermediate between the
subjective but hardly deniable reality of consciousness and objective physical
reality. Thus psi phenomena could have some restricted reality within a group of
observers.
After a PhD in experimental physics he became involved in research in Artificial
Intelligence more specifically ‘Intelligent’ tutoring systems. This resulted in
a focus n individual learning and later learning during altered states of
consciousness most notable learning during sleep. Also the importance of
affective rather than cognitive processes in individual teaching lead him to
interest in non-conscious emotions and their role in (intuitive) decision
making. In that context his work on pre-sentiment, the apparent anomalous
activation of bodily arousal preceding emotional events, found a natural
context.
More recently he started to try to get an empirical handle on the relation
between quantum physics and consciousness. He is currently engaged in
experiments that might clarify this relation. The ORCH-OR model by Hameroff-Penrose
is indirectly tested by measuring decoherence times of the rhodopsin molecule in
the living retina. The Walker-Stapp dualistic model for the collapse of the wave
function is tested using a method earlier explored by Abner Shimoni. In contrast
to Shimoni’s approach the dependent measure is not a conscious ‘guess’about the
state of the observed quantum event but it is the early (non conscious) part of
the evoked brain potential.
Further work in psi related areas are his development of true random number
generators (now available through a company called ORION) and his active
participation in the Global Consciousness project where many of these RNG’s are
used.
Publications:
Many publications can be found on
Dick
Bierman’s website
If you can’t find there what you are looking for please
mail Dick BiermanWe thanks the Parapsychological Association Board (www.parapsych.org) for the permission to publish the above material.
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