Dean Radin

Dean Radin, PhD, is Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) in Petaluma, CA, he is on the adjunct faculty at Sonoma State University, and serves on the Distinguished Consulting Faculty at Saybrook Graduate School. Dr. Radin earned degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Massachusetts, and electrical engineering and psychology from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Before joining the IONS research staff, he worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories, GTE Laboratories, Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, University of Nevada, and three Silicon Valley research labs. Author of over 200 popular and technical articles.

Workshop: Entangled Minds: Understanding Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality
Monday, April 23   
New Mexico Room 3:30pm to 5:00pm

Everyday experience of the world presents us with an array of independent objects, separated in space and time. From this common sense perspective we have developed mechanistic models of the world that involve concepts like causality, force, and a stable reality that persists whether or not we are looking at it. This classical worldview is learned early in life, it is reinforced by Western education and society, and it is taken for granted by most adults as self-evident unless something unusual comes along to challenge it. One such challenge has been the development of quantum mechanics, which has seriously questioned all of the basic assumptions underlying classical reality. Another challenge is the commonly reported and scientifically controversial realm of human experience labeled psychic or mystical phenomena. This workshop considers the possibility that psychic and mystical phenomena are the human experiences of quantum reality. To examine this proposal beyond superficial similarities, we will focus on how science has explored psychic experiences in the laboratory and what it has found.  We will consider the ontological differences between classical and quantum realities and we will examine theories that connect quantum effects with human experience.  We will also consider their implications for an emerging worldview. 

 Goal: This presentation will demonstrate from both experimental and theoretical perspectives why there is growing scientific confidence that psychic phenomena not only exist, but are pervasive.

Learning Objectives:
• Learn how science has studied psychic experiences,
• Learn why, until recently, these phenomena have been studiously ignored
   by science, and
• Learn emerging models that explain why these phenomena exist, and some
  of their implications.