ANSWER

Since the days of Descartes, the unstated assumption of orthodox science has been that “no human qualities of consciousness, intention, emotion, mind or spirit can significantly influence a well-designed target experiment in physical reality”. Although this may have been true in Descartes’ day, it is certainly not true today!

Although this non-scientific bias is widely held by the orthodox science community, the more dominant reason is that science does not choose to seek truth in nature’s many manifestations. Rather, it seeks internal self-consistency with respect to a particular reference frame (RF) used for their scientific observations of nature. Further still, the currently accepted RF for orthodox science is distance-time (spacetime) and it works very well for all those natural phenomena whose behaviors are distance- and time-dependent. However, natural phenomena like consciousness, intention, emotion, mind, spirit, psychophysiology, parapsychology, love, psychiatry, complementary and alternative medicine, etc., are not phenomena that are exclusively distance and/or time-dependent. Thus, there is really no hope that today’s quantum mechanics or relativistic mechanics can, in any way deal with this other category of natural phenomena.

What is needed is the expansion of our current distance-time RF to incorporate an operational RF that can also effectively deal with this particular new category of natural phenomena.

Of course, one must then deal with the hubris of today’s orthodox scientific community in order to get them to pay attention to anything beyond distance-time-only phenomena.