J.          conclusions

I realise that to claim an explanation for all these diverse phenomena out of one basic principle is very ambitious indeed.  some one has got to come up with an explanation for some of them sooner or later, and there is no doubt that the operation of intelligence and more specifically, memory, is one of the last voids in man's understanding of nature.  since so much is known in great detail of the physical action of minuscule elementary particles, this lack of knowledge should be embarrassing to anyone who ever thinks about the current state of knowledge. We are too close to the problem, since the explanation of the problem solving mechanism, the mind, is the content of the problem itself. It seems not unreasonable to reflect that all there is lacking is a fundamental principle, which must be sitting there waiting for denouement, perhaps so obvious and simple that it has been passed over.

I therefore consider that the answer to the unsolved problem of memory, consciousness and thought, when it finally is resolved, or more likely chanced upon, will be from a direction entirely unanticipated by established patterns of belief and will effectively be a new paradigm, requiring a new way of understanding how intelligence operates.  the fact that we still have hardly the first inkling of the operation of intelligence indicates that established science has been looking in the wrong direction, or using techniques that tend to mislead rather than assist. The problem is how to examine our own thought processes and to do this one must set oneself out side them as much as possible. This is not easy, and is also what the ancient mystic religions of the east have always taught by stilling the mind with contemplation and other techniques. If such processes could be rationalised in scientific terms as I have attempted above, then the intuitive methods of gaining insight from the East, might be reconciled and married to the deductive logical thought process developed by the West. 

Either a new convincing proof for some ESP effects are required to stimulate proper funding for research, which is the route that Rupert Sheldrake and others are currently pursuing, or perhaps research into holograms and the operation of the synapses in the brain might come up with a modus operandi for memory based on resonance. I consider that more time should be spent on researching the trance state and hypnosis.  the possible experiments I first posited in 1985 in section G were so sketchy in outline that I now think they stand little chance of being born out in their original from, but have been supplanted by the possibility of Professor Pizzi's work producing a palpably repeatable and effective result if she could be persuaded to continue with the line of research described in the first half of section G. I have not deleted my original proposals (second part of G)  if only to show how my train of thought has developed over time and might now have been justified by an experiment the detail of which I was not able to anticipate 26 years go, but which should bear out my original premise of resonance of similar micro structures through time and space.