A Modular Model of Mind/Matter Manifestations (M5)

While ongoing empirical research into anomalous mind/matter interactions continues to reaffirm the reality of such phenomena, it has heretofore failed to stimulate viable theoretical models, or even to suggest ef- fective strategies for more productive experimentation. In contrast to preva- lent presumption, re-examination of several large databases from this labora- tory raises doubt that such effects are produced by direct attention of the conscious mind to the observable physical processes addressed. Rather, an alternative route is indicated wherein unconscious mind and intangible physi- cal mechanisms are invoked to achieve anomalous acquisition of mental in- formation about, or anomalous mental influence upon, otherwise inaccessible material processes. Implications for more effective experiments include sub- tler feedback schemes that facilitate submission of conscious intention to un- conscious mental processing; physical target systems that provide a richness of intangible potentialities; operators who are amenable to such interactions; and an environmental ambience that supports the composite strategy. Theo- retical requisites include better understanding of the information dialogue be- tween conscious and unconscious aspects of mind; more pragmatic formula- tions of the relations between tangible and intangible physical processes; and most importantly, cogent representation of the merging of mental and materi- al dimensions into indistinguishability at their deepest levels.