We’ve all heard about it, but …
From “Most Vertebrates – Including Humans – Descended from Ancestor With Sixth Sense”
(ScienceDaily Oct. 11, 2011), we learn:
People experience the world through five senses but sharks, paddlefishes and certain other aquatic vertebrates have a sixth sense.
They can detect weak electrical fields in the water and use this information to detect prey, communicate and orient themselves.
A study in the Oct. 11 issue of Nature Communications that caps more than 25 years of work finds that the vast majority of vertebrates — some 30,000 species of land animals (including humans) and a roughly equal number of ray-finned fishes — descended from a common ancestor that had a well-developed electroreceptive system.
But we apparently lost it.
What they count on is that people won’t even intelligently think and reason for themselves anymore. Create and fabricate a great story that delves into the occult-like world of mysticism and people will eat it up like candy. Seriously, look at the number one subject matter for Movies and Television these days.
Most of this Sixth Sense occult subject matter is usually magnified and embellished on by Hollywood and again I’m not sure if it’s these science-fiction journalist story writers who contribute material to Hollywood or rather is it the other way around with Hollywood writers providing great material for mankind beginnings myth propagation.
No matter, when many of mankind are finding life anymore as having less and less purpose, science-fiction is a great entertainment outlet to trip off to and forget how much of a failure this world’s leadership is at providing satifactory answers when many are desparately needed.
as to:
Cool, kind of like a in-built radio receiver! Reminds me of this;
This is also of interest:
But the critical thing to realize in a ‘sixth sense’, is that people, when talking of a ‘sixth sense, usually mean having a premonition before something happens, knowing another person’s thoughts, or something along that line. Something that defies time and space. Yet detecting electric fields alone will not allow premonition, and such, since, as Einstein clearly showed, energy is confined to space-time constraints, i.e. No premonition allowed by relativity!!! And yet, despite this constraint placed on the ‘material’ realm for ever having a true ‘sixth sense’, we do in fact have evidence of such in humans:
And this defiance of space-time material constraints is only possible if humans do indeed have a something ‘supernatural’ in them that can defy these material constraints of space-time. Which is exactly what recent breakthroughs in science have found:
A few other things that indication of a ‘supernatural’ component to man: This following experiment is really interesting:
I once asked a evolutionist, after showing him the preceding experiment, “Since you ultimately believe that the ‘god of random chance’ produced everything we see around us, what in the world is my mind doing pushing your god around?”
Here is another article that is far more nuanced in the discerning of ‘transcendent mind’ from material brain:
Moreover, it can be forcefully argued that humans have a ‘supernatural’ component to them since their ‘brains’ can easily accomplish, in one short paragraph, what the Entire universe can’t even ‘reasonably’ accomplish over its entire history;
Verse and Music:
This doesn’t have any direct bearing on the matter, but I thought it was amusing/interesting (I don’t want to offend anyone.)
The ability to precisely know one’s own salinity is also in there. Here’s the full list of all 57 extra senses.
Reading that reminded me of two quotes. One from Henry Gee (I hope no one will begrudge my reinterpreting the word “fossils” there to include living fossils):
And another from that font of all wisdom, Sir Humphrey Appleby:
🙂
And why does dissimilar embryonic development not count against common ancestry?
i.e. Completely contrary to evolutionary thought, this following article and video show that the same exact genes in different species have actually been shown to produce completely different body structures:
further notes:
etc.. etc..