江博士的“特异功能”

我回国后改行研究“人体科学”已经3年有余,这其间曾接触过形形色色的人物,江永红博士便是其中一位“奇人”,他有好多精彩故事。 江永红,1965年出生于四川某地,华南理工大学的电子学博士。1996年初,联系好新西兰一所大学去做博士后,想到不知何年何月才会故国重游,临行前他     

张宝胜应邀在广济寺表演“特异功能”

本刊讯 1月16日,应中国佛协的邀请,国防科工委507研究所张宝胜在北京广济寺作特异功能表演。表演开始之前,原国防科工委主任张震寰向出席观看表演的佛教学者、僧人、佛学院师生及佛协工作人员共二百多人介绍了研究特异功能的意义和关于张宝胜同志在特异功能方面的珍闻趣事。他说,人体特异功能属于尖端科研项目,世界许多国宗都在进行研究。《心经》中说“色即是空,空即是色”,这里面就有辩证法。特异功能现象说明色与空是同一个事物。他还说,从佛教的角度来讲,特异功能不过是一种雕虫小技,但我希望它有助于中国佛协和中国佛学院对这个问题的研究。赵朴初会长也讲了话。他说,在过去一次表演中,张宝胜将我的一张名片嚼成纸浆,然后放在手上搓揉,几分钟后,名片又按原样复原了。这张名片我至今还保存着。赵会长说,我们佛教徒要对这     

“特异功能”之说绝不可信

一、离奇的宣传自从《四川日报》报导了少年唐雨有“耳朵认字”的功能以来,所谓“特异功能”的研究和宣传,越来越神。据报导,这种“功能”,不仅儿童有,青少年有,甚至老年也有。似乎有很多     

特异功能=巫术——特异功能认亲札记

您知道有这么个公式吗:“气功+特异功能=巫术” 可能有些人一见这个公式会跳起来:“你这是对‘人体科学’的污蔑！” 且慢发火,也先别抗议。这个公式不是我的发明,而是大气功师及其鼓吹者们提出来的。您若不信,请看事实。 一、严新首先与巫术攀亲 第一个把气功和“特异功     

人体有特异功能吗?——特异功能小议

人体是否有特异功能?我认为,对于研究人体解剖学和人体生理学专业的专家们,应该更有发言权。 我很难相信特异功能的存在。因为人体的功能与人体的结构是密切相关的,有什么样的结构也就会有与它相适应的功能。 如人的视觉功能,主要取决于人的视网膜视部的构造,视觉的产生是平行光线进入视网膜视部成像,经过视觉传导通路,由大脑皮层视觉中枢接受到的。特异功能有这样一个例子:偷偷在     

评几项“特异功能”实验

《中国人体科学》是中国人体科学学会与上海交通大学联合主办的一份杂志,该杂志创刊于1990年7月,一年四期,国内公开发行,据说是有别于通俗气功刊物的学术杂志。杂志的主体内容是对所谓“人体科学“(也即“特异功能“与气功)和实验研究及理论探索,另外     

浪漫主义与特异功能

文学的浪漫描写与特异功能迷信是有本质区别的,可是,在一些人眼中,却把两者混为一谈,特别是那些优秀的古典文学作品,特异功能鼓噪者们拿这些名著中的浪漫主义神奇描写当作“历史证据”,大加渲染,而一些思想评论文章又把这种神     

人体特异功能问题

一、两次测试人体的特异功能是多种多样的。这里讲的是“耳朵认字”一类的功能。下面举两个实验区的记录: 测试记录(一)(地点:重庆市北碚区朝阳小学会议室;日期:1980年5月23日9时15分至10时半)     

“神功“揭秘第二部分轻气功不是特异功能

轻气功,是通过“气功大师“的发功运气,使自己的体重变轻的功夫.其实这是不可能办到的事情,如果哪位气功大师能站在磅秤上,通过发功运气使自己的体重减轻十斤,说明地球吸引力失灵,我团便可以奖励他十万元.……     

Met aknowledge: Undefeated justification

Internalism and externalism are both false. What is needed to convert true belief into knowledge is the appropriate blend of subjective and objective factors to yield the appropriate sort of connection between mind and the world. The sort of knowledge explicated is calledmetaknowledge and is knowledge that involves the evaluation of incoming information in terms of a background system. It is proposed that knowledge is equivalent to undefeated justification which is justification on the basis of every system that eliminates or corrects any error in what a person accepts. The system of such system is called the ultrasystem of the person. This account appeals both to internal factors and external factors and involves appeal to both normative requirements and empirical constraints. Justification is defined in terms of a comparative notion of rationality adapted from Chisholm.Research for this paper was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation and a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. I am indebted to the members of the Summer Institute in the Theory of Knowledge, Boulder, Colorado, 1986, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities under the auspices of the Council for Philosophical Studies for helpful criticism of the ideas contained in this paper as well as to Scott Sturgeon, Peter Klein, Steven Luper-Foy and to T. Kuys for a positive proposal cited below.     

从基督教与进化论的第一次相遇谈起

在许多学者眼中,达尔文(Darwin,1809-1882)的进化论与基督教的创世说之间的分歧始终是困扰着现代西方文化的和谐发展的一大矛盾。但事实上,当达尔文的《物种起源》一书于1859年首次在英国伦敦面世时,非但没有使他在当时仍受教会资助的剑桥大学中陷入四面楚歌的境地,反而在一定程度上得到了一些信仰或同情基督教的科学     

算命遭难,大仙丢命

天下的父母,有哪一个不盼望自己的孩子前程似锦!他们,心甘情愿地付出了许多.但是,千万不要用错了地方呵!     

贾庆林会见伊斯兰世界联盟代表团

<正>10月7日至15日,应中国伊斯兰教协会邀请,以伊斯兰世界联盟(以下简称伊盟)秘书长阿卜杜拉·图尔基博士为团长,由伊盟部分成员国政要、宗教领袖和著名学者组成的高级代表团,先后访问了北京、新疆和甘肃等地。     

Catechol-O-methyltransferase Val158Met genotype affects neural correlates of aversive stimuli processing

It was previously shown that variation of the catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) gene modulates brain activity during the processing of stimuli with negative valence, but not for pleasant stimuli. Here, we tested whether the COMT genotype also modulates the electrophysiological correlates of emotional processing and explored whether the environmental factor of life stress influences this effect. Using the early posterior negativity (EPN) paradigm, event-related brain potentials were measured in 81 healthy individuals during the processing of pictures that evoked emotions of positive and negative valence. As was hypothesized, the COMT genotype affected the EPN amplitudes for unpleasant stimuli, but not for pleasant ones. Specifically, Met/Met carriers respond more sensitively to unpleasant stimuli, as compared with Val/Val carriers. We did not find evidence that life stress moderates the effect of the COMT genotype on emotional stimuli processing.     

Guest,Deryn, When Deborah Met Jael: Lesbian Biblical Hermeneutics

Abstract

An event in the life of Tchaikovsky occasions the possibility of the development of a wisdom prefigured in the story of the martyrdom of Sts Serge and Bacchus—a Christian view of the world which embraces gay legitimacy and commends vegetarianism. This wide-ranging essay seeks first to retrieve from its cultured despisers a vision of sex as flowering in enduring affectionally grounded relationships; and then contextualizes that vision within a theology that celebrates an inclusive creaturely enjoyment of other creatures as the proper end of life, and thinks of God as an implicate of prayerful living in the light of a hope against hope—in full acknowledgment of mortality and vulnerability—for a perfected world, to which gay sexual love, like all love, and vegetarianism are both pointers.     

Met expectations: The effects of expected and delivered inducements on employee satisfaction

Interpretation of existing theory and research on met expectations is problematic due to ambiguous conceptualization of the met expectations hypothesis and limitations imposed by the measurement strategies typically employed in this domain (i.e. difference scores and direct retrospective measures). In this longitudinal study, we sought to overcome these problems by using an alternative methodology to conduct a more comprehensive test of the met expectations hypothesis based on Warr's (1987) Vitamin Model and on research in related fields (e.g. person–environment fit). Polynomial regression and response surface analyses were used to examine how employee satisfaction is related to unmet, met, and exceeded expectations concerning two distinct types of inducements analogous to vitamins A (skill development opportunities) and E (support, compensation). Respondents included 342 limited term employees. Consistent with previous research, our results indicated that unmet expectations of any sort were associated with decreased satisfaction. However, contrary to common interpretations of the extant literature, our results also indicated that met expectations were not always associated with high levels of satisfaction and that exceeded expectations were, in the case of skill development, negatively associated with satisfaction. These findings suggest a need to broaden existing met expectations theory and to refine common organizational practices.