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Most of us believe
we only possess five senses,
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but there are people
who claim we have more,
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and that we can
learn how to use them.
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From talking to the dead
to connecting with
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the earth's magnetic field,
these believers are out there.
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I need to meet them.
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My father was a scientist
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running a top secret
government project.
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One night in his lab,
an experiment went horribly wrong,
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rendering him invisible.
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Fearing he was
disappearing forever,
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he rushed home to see my mother.
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And nine months
later, I was born.
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My life's mission is to
investigate concepts on
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the fringe of science,
conducting experiments to test
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those claims regardless of taboo
or seeming unprovability,
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searching for the clues
that will make me visible.
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I walk on the edge of science.
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I am Mister Tachyon.
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Many human senses have
evolved and been lost through
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the history of life on Earth.
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Superior senses of smell,
sight and sound that were once part of
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our biological toolbox became
less necessary for survival.
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Some people claim that we
once had access to senses like
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the ability to navigate using
the earth's magnetic field,
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and that humans could
communicate in ways that
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transcend the accepted
laws of physical nature,
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including ESP, the ability to
communicate across space using
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only your mind, and psi,
the ability to speak with the dead.
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Measuring a sixth sense is
challenging scientifically,
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but I still need to investigate.
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It could hold the key to
unlocking my invisibility.
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Some people say they have
the ability to view the world
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remotely, that they're able
to sense information about
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distant or hidden locations.
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I'm meeting up with remote
viewer John Cook to learn more.
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What is remote viewing?
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Remote viewing is the ability to
perceive details of a location
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or an activity that is
otherwise shielded to you
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by it being distant, or it
being remote in time or space.
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What makes remote viewing
unique and testable?
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Remote viewing is done
under controlled conditions.
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The person who's doing the
viewing is blind to the nature
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of what they're looking at, and
it's important that there be
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an actual thing that
you are viewing.
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And so you need to be able
to get feedback at the end
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to have a looped
closure essentially.
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Do you get visions,
or how does the information come to you?
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It's more of a general
perception that's happening.
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You're getting all sorts of
different kinds of detail about
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the location or the thing
that you're looking at.
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It's not coming in in a nice,
clean, orderly, visual way.
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Is remote viewing
an extra sense?
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It is a sense that every human
being has to varying degrees.
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The ability or the aptitude for
it is distributed in the general
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population probably something
like musical inclination is.
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Some people can't play a
violin to save their life.
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Other people,
they're four years old,
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and they're up onstage and
they're blowing your mind.
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I'm going to test John and
see if he can remote view
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a location, and I've
recruited a volunteer to help.
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So I'm gonna be trying to do
a remote viewing session today.
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And when you get there, if you
could just try to experience
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that location as
fully as possible,
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walk around, look at things,
touch things, listen to things,
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pay attention to details that
are especially interesting,
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and we'll see how it goes.
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Neither John, the volunteer
or myself have any idea
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where we are going.
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Three distinct locations
with recognizable landmarks
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were chosen and photographed.
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The three photos along with
written descriptions were then
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placed into sealed envelopes.
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After a brief meeting with John,
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we travelled to
one of the locations.
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Again, none of us have
any idea where we're going.
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Alright, so the
target is Tachyon-Ian.
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How are you feeling right now?
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Kind of skeptical,
to be honest with you,
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but I'm gonna keep
an open mind to it.
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We're gonna declare what
we call a water gestalt,
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which just means that
some element of the target
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may contain predominantly water.
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Biological, is
looking at something.
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There's a sort of a...
a degree of intensity of
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looking at a particular
thing for some length of time.
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Right now I see...
I've got the skyline.
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I see the waves of
the lake coming in.
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Descriptors related to the
water are that it's energetic,
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it's propelled.
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And if you listen
carefully, you can hear the...
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the water hitting
the rocks over there.
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The structure basically
delineates edges of a region.
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So it's like there's some
function of this structure
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that actually is a clear
division between regions
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for some reason.
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In the middle of all this,
there is a very specific
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upright focal point.
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It feels essentially permanent.
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How accurate do you
expect you'll be?
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It varies with remote viewing.
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Sometimes it can be
spectacularly on.
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You can wind up at
the end of a session
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with three-dimensional clay
models that very obviously are
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the location that
you're talking about.
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Other times it's
a complete bust.
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This is sort of the
experience of lan at the site.
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Typically you're looking
for somewhere between 60+%
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of the things that are said
and identified to be true
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in order to consider it a hit.
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And the idea is when
it's on, it's really on.
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Done.
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I got sucked into
this fountain thing,
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so if they're not at
a fountain, I'm fucked.
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To measure how John did, I
have asked five volunteers
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to examine his work and
compare it to the information
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in the three sealed envelopes.
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The volunteers have been
given two tasks: try to match
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John's work with the contents
from one of the envelopes,
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and then rank their confidence
on a scale between 1 and 5,
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with 5 being 100% certain,
and 1 being 0% confident.
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My hypothesis is that
the volunteers will match
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John's viewing to
the chosen location
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with a high degree
of confidence.
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I selected Envelope 1,
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and I give it a
confidence rating of 5.
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I think #1 is most
likely to be this photo,
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but I'm probably just
#3 confident because
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the description was too generic.
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I selected #1.
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Level 5 confidence.
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I selected #1.
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I gave it a 5.
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4 out of 5 picked
the right location.
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Only one failed to identify
the bridge and water.
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Under the circumstances,
this is as good as I think
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I hoped to do, other than
an absolute complete hit.
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That would've
been awesome, but...
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I have to say, John, these
results are pretty amazing.
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None of the volunteers have any
knowledge of the experiment,
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and those who chose correctly
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had an overall
confidence rating of 90%.
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John's notes indicate that he
immediately linked our location
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to moving water,
and our location is set beside a river
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emptying into a lake.
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Predominantly water.
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He also noted an upright rigid
structure, and another structure
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he described as rigid
with parallel lines.
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When he put all of
this information together,
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he took the water and
structures to be a fountain,
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which was not correct,
but the description also resembles
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the rock feature and the bridge.
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Overall, John's description
seemed accurate
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in a number of ways, and my
volunteers confirmed this.
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While I only ran
one trial with John,
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the results are very interesting
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and compel me to continue
with my investigation.
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Next, I wanna meet
someone who believes
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they can speak with the dead.
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I'm investigating
whether humans possess
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or can develop
additional senses.
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My experiment with remote
viewer John Cook was compelling,
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and I am motivated to
continue my investigation.
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I've found a woman who claims
to have been connecting with
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the spirit world
for over 30 years.
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She specializes
in psychic healing,
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and believes her ability can
be explained with science.
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Everything's heightened
when you're doing this work.
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Your brain chemistry changes,
your physicality changes.
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The spirit world, they vibrate
at a higher level than us.
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We're solid, they're gaseous.
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So think of physics and
how vibrations are different
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according to the
state that you're in.
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So what's really interesting for
me is that I use all five senses
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in a heightened state in order
to meet with the spirit world.
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Carolyn has agreed
to participate
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in an experiment for me.
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She believes her brain
changes during her readings.
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I don't have any
ways of tracking
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her communication with
the dead, but I can track
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her brain's electrical
activity with an EEG device.
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An EEG uses electrodes that
can measure brain waves.
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Our experiment will measure four
rhythms produced by the brain:
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alpha, beta, delta, and theta.
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The frequency of each
gives us an idea of
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how alert a person is.
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I'm going to start with
a baseline reading of
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her brain activity while we
have a regular conversation.
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These frequencies show
her normal brain activity.
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I'll then compare these results
to her brain frequencies
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during three separate readings.
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Upon completion,
I will debrief with each volunteer.
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My hypothesis is that I should
see measurable differences
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in her brain frequencies
between her baseline
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and her accurate readings
versus when she is not accurate.
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I'm hoping to
connect with my dad.
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Oh my goodness, there's a
father figure that's come in.
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Is your father in spirit?
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Yeah.
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I feel like with your dad,
there was never a dull moment.
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If people got bored, they'd
call up your dad and say,
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"Okay, well let's do something,"
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and he would rise
to the occasion.
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Today I hope to
connect with my father.
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Strong working man.
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I feel like he carried
the world on his shoulders.
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Do you understand that?
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- Mm-hmm, yes.
- Yes? Okay, good.
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Part of him wants to apologize
for not really taking in all of
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who you are, because I think he
missed the fun aspects of you.
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Hmm.
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He's telling me that he now
understands that you are very
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different outside of the home
than you were in the house.
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I'm looking to contact
my stepdad, Charlie.
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He wants you to laugh,
he wants you to smile.
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He doesn't want you to cry.
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He says this is a celebration
of me being with you.
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I think that's one of the
things you whispered to him
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before he left, was
that... don't leave me.
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- Right.
- Right?
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- Yeah.
- And he hasn't.
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With the readings finished,
I meet with the volunteers.
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It was interesting
to see the accuracy.
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I was pleasantly
surprised, I would say.
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There were many,
many things that...
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that you can't tell
from a photograph.
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Now onto the EEG data.
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Carolyn's brain activity
changed in unique ways
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between the baseline
and readings.
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During her readings, beta brain
waves, showing intense focus,
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and theta brain waves,
which relate to daydreaming,
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were dominant at times.
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These two waves are not
dominant in her baseline test.
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Next, I examine the specific
time she gave an accurate
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or inaccurate reading
to each of the subjects
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based on their
anecdotal evidence.
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Do you understand that?
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Yeah, my aunt recently passed.
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When Carolyn was reading
accurately, her brain was in
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a focused or dream-like
state 75% of the time.
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But he just feels like someone
who could do bowling very well.
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When her accuracy was off,
her brain was mostly in a state
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similar to her
baseline, or normal.
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This data
supports my hypothesis,
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and there's an interesting
correlation between
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Carolyn's unusual brain
states and her accuracy
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reading the subjects tested.
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Even with this interesting data,
I'm forced to use anecdotal
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evidence to gauge how
accurate her ability is,
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and this prevents me
from making a conclusion
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in regards to her claim
to speak with the dead.
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I would also like to examine her
brain data when she's focused on
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other activities like
reading or doing a puzzle.
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Now I need to find a less
anecdotal way to test accuracy
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in individuals who claim to
have an extra sensory ability.
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I want to connect with
someone who claims they have
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an extra sense, but one that is
grounded in the physical world.
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And I've found
someone near Seattle
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that might be able to help me.
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I need to meet him.
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I'm exploring the
idea that humans possess
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or can develop
additional senses.
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My experiments with a
psychic and remote viewer
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gave me some
interesting results,
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and I am eager to continue
my investigation.
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I found someone whose
brain apparently has
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a measurable difference in the
way it perceives the world.
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He claims altered
wiring in his brain
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allows him to see
things geometrically.
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The name's Jason Padgett.
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I'm a synesthete
and acquired savant.
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Basically an ability that I have
is something that we all have,
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but we're not aware of.
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A synesthete is a person who
senses the world differently.
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Some see words in
certain colours.
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For some, sounds
trigger strange sensations.
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Others like Jason
see the world in math.
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Describe your condition for me.
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I see motion in picture frames,
which makes everything
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that was curved looked like
it's slightly pixelated,
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and seeing things in picture
frames makes the way that...
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things move and the math
behind it much more obvious.
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Interesting.
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Is this something
you were born with?
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In 2002, I was
attacked by two muggers,
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and the next thing I knew I
was waking up on the ground
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getting punched and kicked
from all different directions,
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and it damaged the
part of the brain that
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smooths out picture frames.
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So now whenever something moves,
I'm aware of the picture frames.
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Put it in here, then it
winds up being like say 6.28...
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It forces you to
see in calculus,
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which to me is absolutely key
to understanding the universe,
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reality, everything.
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So what do you see
when we toss this orange?
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So as we toss this
orange back and forth,
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like for instance, that
looks about like -.1x squared.
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So that equation describes the
arc of this ball due to gravity,
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a parabolic arc.
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The orange does
travel along an arc
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that matches Jason's statement.
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How does your ability help you
describe moving objects in math?
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The slower it's getting, the
closer the picture frames get,
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and the faster it moves, the
further the picture frames
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get apart from each other.
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A good way to describe it
is like a flip book.
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You know how you can draw a
cartoon character on several
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different pieces of paper,
then you flip the paper
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and it looks like the
cartoon character moves,
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but it looks kinda jittery.
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And the more pictures you
draw, the smoother it looks.
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Is modifying our brains,
our bodies to give us extra senses
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something that we should do?
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Modifying ourselves not
only is something that we--
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that we should do,
but perhaps we are
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the natural evolution
for computers.
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And perhaps event-- the only
way for us to keep up with it
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is to merge, you know,
with computers.
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Jason's story raises
the question about
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modifying ourselves to
acquire extra senses.
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But the unique and tragic way
he acquired his extra sense
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makes it impossible
to replicate.
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I need to find someone
who is using other means
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to explore the potential
for extra human senses.
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Some believe that all humans
were once connected to
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magnetic north as a
means of navigation.
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Carl Smith is working on a
project called North Sense.
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It uses technology to help
people connect with a sense of
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direction that humans have lost
along our evolutionary path.
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North Sense is the basic aim
of trying to give people back
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a sense, which is the ability
to actually detect north.
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The implant is actually
just a body piercing,
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so the actual sense or the
technology is not actually
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implanted in the body,
and we are basically trying
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to establish what effect
the North Sense has
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on the human condition.
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North Sense sounds interesting,
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but I need to learn more
about this project firsthand.
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Carl puts me in touch with
someone who already has
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the implant, the leader of
a group called Cyborg Nest,
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Liviu Babitz.
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I have the North Sense
connected right here to my body.
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How does it work?
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The way it works is every
time you're basically facing
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the magnetic north in the
certain location you are,
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it will give you
this short vibration.
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The North Sense doesn't ask
me, or I don't ask it if I am
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interested to know
where the north is,
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the magnetic north.
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It just gives me that
information every time.
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What do you hope to gain
from this extra sense?
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When you start searching about
the north and the earth magnetic
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field, you understand that it's
part of everything that we know.
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It's everywhere
in our traditions,
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starting from the
feng shui religions.
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Nature is built different
on the north side
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than on the south side.
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Animals have this sense.
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So the whole thing comes from
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a very basic existence
of us as humans.
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We want to open this door.
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We want to start
sensing what we can't sense.
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I'm going to run an experiment
to test if the North Sense
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changes Liviu's
navigational memory.
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To do this, I brought Liviu
and two control subjects
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who do not have the device
to an unfamiliar city,
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Breda in the Netherlands.
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It's a medieval city with a
complex network of streets
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and city squares.
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From the same starting point,
I take each subject on
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a disorienting walk to a church
in Breda's central square.
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Do you know where
you are right now?
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I have no idea.
No, I don't know.
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If I asked you to
get to where we met,
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do you think you'd
be able to do it?
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No, I think I have no clue
where to go, actually.
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I'd like for you to make your
way back to where we started.
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A local familiar with the
city could do this walk
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in five minutes.
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I will map their routes and
record the time each subject
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takes to complete the test.
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My hypothesis is that the North
Sense implant will help Liviu
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navigate his way back to the
meeting point more efficiently
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than the control subjects.
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With the experiment underway,
I head back to the meeting point
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to collect the data.
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I'm testing a new
technology called North Sense.
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I've asked two control
subjects without the device
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and the third with the
North Sense, Liviu Babitz,
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to navigate an unfamiliar city.
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One at a time, each individual
set off from the town church.
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I recorded their time
back to a meeting point
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and mapped their route.
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My hypothesis is that the
ability to detect magnetic north
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will enhance Liviu's ability
to navigate a confusing network
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of streets more efficiently
than the controls.
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I didn't feel confidence
when I was navigating
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because I'm very
used to using my GPS.
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So not having access to my
phone when I was doing this
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felt kind of unnatural.
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When I started the experiment,
I didn't know exactly what to
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expect, but that feeling that
follows me every day of knowing
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all the time where the north is
is something that's been already
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built into my
perception of life.
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So I expected to feel
confident about me going back.
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Well, my strategy at the start
was I knew the last few turns.
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My sense of direction told me
it was at a certain place,
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and at the same time I had the
sense of direction telling me
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like where roughly
the part we started was.
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But by the time
I got to the park,
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I had no clue where I was, so...
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My first control
completed the test
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in just under seven minutes.
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Iris, you found our destination.
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I found it!
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What was your experience like?
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I had no clue where I was.
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I was just following
some sort of feeling.
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Did you feel confident?
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Not at all.
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Would you implant
technology to help you,
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to give you a
sense of direction?
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00:20:02,984 --> 00:20:05,254
Yeah, I think it would
be very helpful for me.
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Only if it's safe.
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My second control did not find
his way to the meeting point.
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We were supposed to
meet at the giant block.
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Giant block, right.
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Yeah, do you have any
sense of where that is?
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Uh, right now not really.
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I probably took the
wrong turn out of the park,
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because after that I didn't
really know where I was going.
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Do you feel that
having another sense,
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something like the North
Sense, might've assisted you?
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Yeah, I think it
would've assisted me for sure.
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With the North Sense device,
Liviu found his way back
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in just over four minutes,
arriving at our destination
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the fastest out of
our three subjects.
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What was that
experience like for you?
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It was very, very exciting.
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It's the first time I
do something like that.
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What role did North Sense play
in helping you navigate back?
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I have zero visual memories of
where we've been all the way
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now, and suddenly the North
Sense was the main thing that
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created the memories
or the understanding,
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and the hearing and the
sight were the secondary things.
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Everything that
we created as humans
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we created because
we have senses.
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So now add to these
senses and imagine
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how much more we can create.
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This preliminary experiment
supported my hypothesis.
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Liviu navigated the city
better than the other subjects.
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To determine if this is due to
the North Sense or some other
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factor, more testing
will have to be done,
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but this is a promising start.
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My last experiment demonstrated
that technology may help enhance
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human sensory perception.
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Liviu navigated an unknown
city better than the other
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test subjects, but the results
were not overly significant.
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More testing with other
people connected to the device
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is needed.
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My experiment with
Carolyn was interesting.
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While I was not able to
determine if she can communicate
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with the spirit world, I learned
that her brain does change
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during readings.
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My remote viewing experiment
with John came back with
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the most interesting results.
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The data appears to support the
hypothesis that he was able to
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view a location remotely.
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Do these results constitute
evidence of extra senses?
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I need to do more experiments.
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