Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
I'm not disagreeing with this, because Einstein's E=mc² implies that it is correct, but can anyone explain how to use consciousness to make you less fat? Or run faster for that matter
I was refering more to the observer effect, human beings have the ability to make subatomic particles appear out of a vast sea of energy just by observing this sea of energy. My favourite clip on this:



So we all have two parts to us, the physical eating, running, swearing part, and another part that can extend out of us and interfere with things without touching them. This violates one of the most sacred tenets of classical mechanics, strong objectivity. This interfering is also suspected to be instantaneous and involve no known signalling medium such as electromagnetics, this superluminal signalling also violates a sacred tenet of classical mechanics, locality.

At this point we start to lack the language to describe the implications of this new set of laws, but what we can say is that consciousness is not biochemical and in your brain, it is an energy field and is everywhere; this also violates classical mechanics, which holds matter as the ground state of all being, not consciousness.

So, can consciousness when properly prompted to do so, transform the subatomic particles that make up a fat molecule or a cancer cell and reduce them back to waves? I think there's enough evidence in favour of this to warrant further investigation, but the powers that be in todays medicine won't have anything to do with anything that violates classical mechanics. What the layperson knows as "snake oil" is more than likely an unexplained phenomenon that breaks the rules of classical mechanics, and thus far we have not advanced our scientific curiosity far enough to entertain the idea that a 500 year old set of assumptions might be innacurate somehow.

It's a slippery topic.