Paul the octopus has become a celebrity after predicting world cup results for Germany, and according to the aquarium spokesman Tanja Munzig, “Paul’s prediction was phenomenal”. A phenomenon, originated from the Greek phenomena, is an unusual or an extraordinary event. According to the Merriam Webster dictionary, a phenomenon is ‘a fact or event of scientific interest susceptible to scientific description and explanation’. And in the same dictionary it is also explained as ‘an exceptional, unusual, or abnormal person, thing, or occurrence’.
While some refer to Paul as psychic, I bet if it were in a rural region of India, the people there would already be prostrating to it believing it as a god. A creature who does not understand what football is, what the world cup is, what it means to play football, how could it predict a score while the most intelligent humans are unable to predict scores?
For me accepting that this octopus is somewhat psychic and if its actions are phenomenal seems a bit bogus. Rather, I wonder if there is a science that could explain this psychic octopus.
Every time I hear such stories, or whenever I learn about such events, the first thing that comes to my mind is Noetics. The word noetic, as described on the website of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), “comes from the ancient Greek nous, for which there is no exact equivalent in English. It refers to ‘inner knowing’, a kind of intuitive consciousness – direct and immediate access to knowledge beyond what is available to our normal senses and the power of reason.”
And as per described on the website of IONS, noetic sciences are “explorations into the nature of potentials of consciousness using multiple ways of knowing – including intuition, feeling, reason, and the senses. Noetic sciences explore the ‘inner cosmos’ of the mind (consciousness, soul, spirit) and how it relates to the ‘outer cosmos’ of the physical world.”
In other words, noetic sciences explain how a thought (the inner cosmos of the mind) could have an impact on the physical world (the outer cosmos). The noetic science is about the powers of the human mind, spirit and the soul. As per noetic science the basis of every physical event starts within our minds. Whether we would like to purchase a book, read a book or write a book, or create something, or even if we want to lift our hands, the first step to achieve this physical actions foundation is laid within our own minds. That is the moment that we intend to do something!
And it is the power of this intention that leads us to create a physical happening. And because the intentions and the thoughts have an actual physical weight that could be measured, the intensity of this weight of thoughts could have an actual impact on the physical world. For instance, when many people concentrate on the same thing, the weight of thoughts increases the probability that it would become increases. This is the science that explains ‘supernatural’ events such as healing, telepathic visions etc.
Moving back to the octopus, could noetic science be the truth behind Paul’s successful predictions? The World Cup is an event that gathers the concentration of the whole world. The prayers, the thoughts, the thinking of the people could have an immense effect on the physical world as several people would be concentrating on the same thing at the same period of time. Thus, with all this concentration of the millions of people, the octopus could actually move towards the glass box with the flag of the team that most of the people wish would win.
-thadu
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