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This Chapter describes in the first-person language the experience of an example of analogical, emergent interspecies communication; it then corroborates that experience with similar ones reported in the language of the observer; and it analyzes the common themes at the roots of such happenings.
Praise be to thee above, Most High, for all thy creatures...
St. Francis of Assisi: ((quoted in Clissold, 1978, p.87)
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Naturally when I use the term “talking” I do not mean an actual sharing of semantic constructs, but some communicative tool of sort, based most likely on affects.
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The experiment was used to challenge implications of quantum physics because they seemed to emphasize nonlocality. It stimulated laboratory research to prove or disprove the nonlocality principle. This principle was eventually “proven” by Alain Aspect (1982) and others. (See also R. Penrose, 1994, pp. 246–249).
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This kind of experiment, in which paradoxically a large-scale object such as a cat could be conceptualized in two simultaneous different (dead or alive) states, addresses the mystery of measurement, a” central...mystery of quantum theory” (Penrose, p.334).
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Jung would not be surprised; he would consider the events as activations of archetypal templates embedded in the psyche of all creatures, parts of the common legacy of life: what, unless I err, he called “the spirit of the depth”.
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It seems to be an ingrained habit of humans to marginalize and discard what they do not understand, in order to hide their lack of knowledge under a presumptive dismissive explanation. The recent proliferation of unproven (and unprovable) conspiracy theories in the area of politics and health is another glaring example of this imbedded tendency.
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Sanguineti, V. (2023). The Unfolding of Life: The Genetic Endowment. In: Journeys in the Mind. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29735-9_5
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