subject: Why Do Ghosts Wear Clothes? and Where is Psi? [print this page] Why Do Ghosts Wear Clothes? and Where is Psi?
A large quantity of ESP based data has become comprehensible due to memory models in which assume that the systemic source of extrasensory information is somehow localized in the long-term memory.
Recent findings support the hypothesis that memory is distributed in many regions of the brain, assumed as a means to potentially compensate for damage to one storage area. In other words, the support of memory is not specific to certain regions, but rather a whole network.
The view up until now was that in regards to memory, if point (A) was lost then point (B) would be on all of the time to take over for (A). However, this assumption appears today to be incorrect, as (B) would only take over if and when needed (i.e. is exclusively need-based).
Most of the time (B) appears to act like a normal piece of brain tissue and only kicks into "hyperdrive" when (A) is particularly challenged, and performs in less than a second. While this is a remarkable fluid neural plasticity, it is not to be confused with the standard "(B) took over for (A), but rather (B) will take over when needed.
Such a finding (that memory is distributed in many regions of the brain) will pose an issue for the parapsychological community in regards to isolating a region of the brain responsible for psi cognitive processes, or rather, could potentially explain what such a region has not yet exclusively been found.
The first sight model helps the parapsychological community answer difficult questions like "why do ghosts wear clothes?" or "how can there be apparitions of living individuals?"
Such experiences are assumed the result of hallucinations, possibly mediated via telepathy or clairvoyance. Such hallucinations are assumed a product of the mind and constructed from images in the "receivers" memory, rather from the "senders" memory.
Therefore, it is assumed that no mediation of visual impressions from the sender to the receiver has occurred, but rather the mediation of generalized information to be later cognized via the receivers own memorial images.
Assumptions continue suggesting that the images are retrieved from the receiver's conscious and subconscious memory (i.e. extrasensory experience arises exclusively from memory).
(Adapted from the book series "A Quantum Approach" by Dr. Theresa M. Kelly.)
