Originally published at: CIA releases new documents about Russian telepathy experiments in the 60s | Boing Boing
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Because Marxism denies the supernatural in any form (gods, witchcraft, nationalist myths etc.), and correctly posits that historical and political forces can be explained entirely in terms of material conditions, e.g. who is starving and who lives in a palace. That’s what “Marxist materialism” means.
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“The Comrades Who Stare At Goats”. Nah, it’ll never sell.
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Those who promote ESP often insist that such phenomena exist as part of the natural world but have simply been ignored or under-studied by mainstream science.
They are wrong, of course, but one can promote bad science without necessarily abandoning materialism.
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You are aware that the US also had such programs, right? That scientists participated in?
I’d argue that it’s a phenomenon that should be studied, but as part of sociology, mythology, philosophy, or theology. Or all of them.
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Sure it will, just bill it as the 2nd title of a trillogy: the commies learn of the “successes” of the US effort, and in turn double-down on developing their own psychic warriors with similar but comically Russian incidents of failure and possible success. The third and final has them directly conflict, in a post-Soviet neo-modernist era where the “technology” is being commercialized and made part of the millitary-industrial complex. Throw in some WH40K references for teh luze and youth appeal, some possibly real/possibly imagined psychic fights, and some extropolation about what the world would look like today if we’d had a breakthrough in the 80s, and you’re golden.
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Just in time for the next season of Stanger Things.
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Signals could be recorded, he said, from the arm of a skilled pianist while he was playing. Then this recording could be played into the arm of another person who could not play the piano well. That person would then be enabled to play difficult music
I bet we’re able to do this someday. It’s almost like holography. The problem is it only captures the “electro-” part of the electro-chemical signals in the body. So if someone was playing Mozart and their signals were recorded, the target person might end up playing Bach, or even P.D.Q. Bach.
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Another project that he was only able to describe in hearsay (it was going on in Kiev) was “tapping” messages from the central nervous system by placing electrodes on the skin of the forearm; and, conversely, “introducing” messages into the central nervous system at the same point. Signals could be recorded, he said, from the arm of a skilled pianist while he was playing. Then this recording could be played into the arm of another person who could not play the piano well. That person would then be enabled to play difficult music — but also would retain some of this skill as permanent learning.
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This has surely been done albeit using the ear rather than the arm. Who among us can say they have not easily learned a foreign language subliminaly while they have slept - employing nothing more than a speaker in their pillow?
Does an angry foreign student jabbering away at you all night as you’re trying to get some sleep count?
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In Communist Russia, just like everywhere else, goat stares at you.
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