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A Critique
wave-length?) for the process of thinking and other mental activities.
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Many scientists, however, see drastic changes on the horizon. There would have to be some revolutionary paradigm1 to explain telepathy, psychokinesis and precognition. At-least one serious physicist, Gerald Finberg of Columbia University, thinks that psychic transmissions may one day be linked to yet undiscovered elementary particles which may be called mindons or psychons2. If modern scientific instruments became really successful in detecting such particles, they could be equivalent to the group of matter called manaḥ vargaṇā by Jains. But since, such matter is devoid of mass, it is extremely unlikely to be found in its original form.
1. Paradigm is the word used by Thomas Kuhn for the model of scientific advancement after each major conceptual shift.
2. Time (Weekly).
