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I am curious as to why this particular TEDtalk has not garnered more outraged discussion considering the recent hem-haw over a user's comments regarding the notion of mind-over-matter in issues of chronic physical or mental disease.
(http://videosift.com/video/Going-to-the-Doctor-in-America)

Newsflash: Satisfactory explanations just in, more to come with additional, epiphanous information.

One YT user today suggested the following:
"@2:51 The real reason that this was banned: the audience is laughing. And the joke is - no not on science - in this case the joke is on Daniel Dennett = one of the 'anonymous' jurors. He seems to have neither a sense of humour, nor a sportsman attitude, nor the wit to stand his ground on his own two feet."

Remember, Rupert Sheldrake *actually believes* in psychic powers.

In this video he sets up a bunch of straw-men arguments to knock down. Just by using (and abusing) the language of science and framing it inwords like "dogma" that we associate with religion doesn't mean that anything else you have to propose has any validity.

He believes that by "morphic resonance" that "natural systems, such as termite colonies, or pigeons, or orchid plants, or insulin molecules, inherit a collective memory from all previous things of their kind".

Hmmm. I'm waiting or your peer reviewed paper on this with interest.

This guy is so full of logical fallacy it's barely watchable.

Edit: What TheSluiceGate said.

There was actually a really great segment by PBS recently called "What Plants Talk About". They argued that plants do in fact communicate and change behaviors rapidly based on their active environments.

I think what Sheldrake and the like encourage is that humans know little to nothing about the inherent nature of anything.

More than anything this should be exciting, we are barely out of a 1 year perception of what anything actually is or how this world or the Universe works, let alone why humans even stand today to be sitting behind a bunch of computers poking fun at or trying to figure out the nature of things.

People love thinking that we are elevated modern humans or something. It's fairly laughable and will be even more laughable even 50 years from now.

DMT is proof. Smoke it and see for yourself how little you know about your "consciousness" and what is "real".

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