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The man attempting to merge physics & the paranormal - C C - Mar 18, 2019
https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/science-history-the-man-attempting-to-merge-physics-and-the-paranormal
EXCERPT: . . . Brian D. Josephson’s tunnelling theory was later confirmed, and in 1973 he was one of three scientists who shared the Nobel Prize in physics. [...] In the late 1970s, Josephson’s work took a turn that was looked upon unfavourably by some peers. He began to focus on the human brain and links between quantum physics and parapsychological or paranormal phenomena such as telepathy and extra-sensory perception.
He became director of the Mind-Matter Unification Project [...] within Cambridge University. Josephson’s homepage describes it [...] He told an interviewer from the Physics World journal in 2002 that, “physicists have an emotional response when they hear anything connected with parapsychology. Their opinion of parapsychology research is not based on evaluation of the evidence but on a dogmatic belief that all research in this field is false.”
He’d started to think about how the brain works and found this more fascinating than anything in physics at the time. He became interested in Eastern mysticism and parapsychology. "I began to sense that conventional science is inadequate for situations where the mind is involved, and the task of clarification became a major concern of mine,” he said.
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