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The standard assumption is that minds are located inside heads. But many mental phenomena, including vision, suggest that minds are far more extensive than brains. There is now a large body of experimental evidence for the reality of the sense of being stared at, namely the ability to detect unseen gazes. There is also evidence for the effects of intention at a distance through telephone telepathy, the phenomenon of thinking of somebody just before they call, or knowing who is calling before looking at the caller ID or answering the phone. New evidence also suggests that joint attention can be detected at a distance. Such phenomena make sense if we think of minds as more like extended fields than as processes confined to brains.
Biography
Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D., is a biologist and author of more than 80 scientific papers and 11 books, including The Science Delusion, called Science Set Free in the US. From 2005-2010, he was Director of the Perrott-Warrick Project, funded from Trinity College, Cambridge. He is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and of Schumacher College, Dartington, England. He lives in London. Web site: www.sheldrake.org.