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feelings and mental agency Joëlle Proust Institut JeanNicod Paris httpdividnormensfr Metacognition amp Metarepresentation workshop Oslo April 28 2014 Goal of the present. org When data generated in the feeling of being stared at experiments are adjusted to account for response biases hit rates associated with responding yes when being stared at and no when not being stared at are virtually identical Experiments conduc of Noetic Sciences Antonion Rd. 94952 deanradin@noetic.org was dean@noetic.org0836-1398/2013/26(4)/553/14/$25.002013PhysicsEssaysPublicationPHYSICSESSAYS,4(2013) dedoublefentenouvellementconc Reviewer Bruce Nagle writes of Foundations of Noetic Medicine -- In this monograph Bessinger pursues his interest in synthesizing modern insights in physics and psychology to produce a new paradigm for healing in and, indeed, of 21st century medicine. His first chapter explains the concepts of physics over the past century that have altered our understanding of the Cosmos, and in the second chapter he expounds a conceptualization that might form the basis for a synthesis applicable to the practice of medicine. For the reader unfamiliar with scientific physics literature, the insights of modern physics can seem foreign indeed, pointing out how little the general public knows about or understands them the explanations themselves require careful reading and thoughtful pondering, even though Bessinger is kind enough to spare the reader the relevant and difficult mathematics few of us indeed have spent any time exploring this field in the depth needed to easily comprehend that which he is summarizing and using to lay the groundwork for his proposals, but he outlines the needed information and suggestions carefully and gently. The basis for his argument rests largely on the non-local nature of reality as demonstrated by Bell\'s Theorem, and he further discusses pulsed-nonlocality and, in a neologism that seems most apt, the nuocontinuum. In his third chapter, Healing Thought, Bessinger discusses the philosophic milieu in which these insights are relevant, focusing on clinical aspects of the physician-patient therapeutic relationship. And in the ultimate chapter, Noetic Practice, he examines and speculates about the directions in which medical practice seems to be proceeding and might proceed. As we find our national conversation currently focused on the financing of health care, it is well to be reminded that this is but one of the major issues facing the health of our people today. Not only do we as patients find ourselves too often experiencing less than optimal medical processes and outcomes, but we as physicians and other health care providers also suffer and are frustrated and disillusioned. All too often we restrict our vision unnecessarily and limit our own possibilities as healers, in part because of our own biases and a limited awareness of our own blinders, narrow understanding, and flawed paradigms. Bessinger invites us to take a broader look and include fundamental aspects of reality that we are ill-prepared and ill-trained to consider, and, if we listen to him carefully and respectfully, both we and our patients will benefit immeasurably.