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>Whatever it is, Reiki is exquisitely sensitive to intention of the people involved. It only "cares" about healing. If your intention is to test Reiki, it won't

>Whatever it is, Reiki is exquisitely sensitive to intention of the people involved. It only "cares" about healing. If your intention is to test Reiki, it won't work. Reiki doesn't care. If your intention is to heal people, it will work but you'll also heal the control group. There's no way to use Reiki not to heal some people, you see? You can't administer "placebo" Reiki. Ascribing emotion and intention to a hypothesized nonliving object is a step too far for me. Put up or shut up.

carapace 7y ago
I never said it was nonliving. The most parsimonious hypothesis I have come up with is that Reiki is life. (That's a bit of a cop-out because both terms are somewhat loosely defined so there's enough wiggle room to simply equate them, and it doesn't really add much to a scientific conversation does it?) Check out: "What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System - NeurIPS 2018" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjD1aLm4Thg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjD1aLm4Thg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698 Reiki could be as simple and (relatively!) unremarkable as some kind of biological near-field communication ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-field_communication https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-field_communication ) > Put up or shut up. Honestly, I'm just some weirdo on the internet. I'm in SF, if you're ever out this way hit me up and I'll demonstrate Reiki for you. There are Reiki practitioners in your city no doubt. If you're really interested you should go meet some of them. I'm willing to keep answering your questions but if you want to really see hard science doing some wild "supernatural" stuff, Levin's work (above) is much more worth your time. Cheers! :-) - - - - edit: I was rereading my replies and it occurred to me that since, as I told AgentME, there is apparently no distance limit to Reiki, we could attempt a demonstration. To wit: if you reply within, say, 24 hours with a time (Pacific Standard if you would be so kind) I'll go ahead and do a distance treatment on you. The image from your Github account is enough to "dial it in". (For sake of parity I'll tell you that I'm "calroc" on that site. You can see what I look like. ;-) Maybe nothing happens, maybe something. YMMV @AgentME, same offer.

carapace 7y ago

I never said it was nonliving. The most parsimonious hypothesis I have come up with is that Reiki is life. (That's a bit of a cop-out because both terms are somewhat loosely defined so there's enough wiggle room to simply equate them, and it doesn't really add much to a scientific conversation does it?) Check out: "What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System - NeurIPS 2018" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjD1aLm4Thg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjD1aLm4Thg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698 Reiki could be as simple and (relatively!) unremarkable as some kind of biological near-field communication ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-field_communication https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-field_communication ) > Put up or shut up. Honestly, I'm just some weirdo on the internet. I'm in SF, if you're ever out this way hit me up and I'll demonstrate Reiki for you. There are Reiki practitioners in your city no doubt. If you're really interested you should go meet some of them. I'm willing to keep answering your questions but if you want to really see hard science doing some wild "supernatural" stuff, Levin's work (above) is much more worth your time. Cheers! :-) - - - - edit: I was rereading my replies and it occurred to me that since, as I told AgentME, there is apparently no distance limit to Reiki, we could attempt a demonstration. To wit: if you reply within, say, 24 hours with a time (Pacific Standard if you would be so kind) I'll go ahead and do a distance treatment on you. The image from your Github account is enough to "dial it in". (For sake of parity I'll tell you that I'm "calroc" on that site. You can see what I look like. ;-) Maybe nothing happens, maybe something. YMMV @AgentME, same offer.