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Spooky Intention at a Distance

Woman in disposable jump suite standing among 1000s of baby chicks.
Picture of By Eric Egan
By Eric Egan

Is Your Mind More Powerful Than a Chick’s?

Baby chick

The First Study: Look Mom, No Hands!

The coffee can size robot called Tychoscope 1

The little Tychoscope 1. (Pic from the video https://youtu.be/_AcmQB30krs)

The first experiment involved imprinting chicks to think the Tychoscope was their mother. “Newly hatched chicks memorize the characteristics of the first moving object they encounter, and subsequently show a preference for it.”3

Chick following the Tychoscope 1. (Pic from the video https://youtu.be/_AcmQB30krs)

Once the chick was imprinted to think the Tychoscope was mommy, they put the chick in a clear cage next to a frame the size of a dining room table where the Tychoscope could move freely like so.

Chick in cage controlling the coffee can size Tychoscope 1. You can see the lines the Tychoscope drew on the dining room table size paper in front of the chick's clear plastic cage.

Imprinted chick in a clear cage next to a paper-lined frame the size of a dining room table where the Tychoscope could move freely. (http://gerp.free.fr)

Tychoscope randomly plotting lines on the paper

Tychoscope randomly plotting on the paper. You can see the marker just drops down a hole in the middle. (http://gerp.free.fr/Tycho2.jpg)

With no chick present or a chick that was not imprinted, the Tychoscope went equally on all sides of the pen. When there was an imprinted chick present, “It was found that the Tychoscope spent two and a half times longer on the half of the surface closer to the chicks, compared to its motion when the cage was empty.”4

Two charts. On with no chick in the cage showing the Tychoscope's random patterns. The other image of when there is an imprinted chick in the cage, the Tychoscope spent far more time in front of the chick's cage.

The video is in French. But you can change the closed caption to your language.https://youtu.be/_AcmQB30krs 

Study II, Let There Be Light!

The coffee can size Tychoscope 1 and the 5-gal bucket size Tychoscope 2.

The larger Tychoscope 2 in front of the smaller green Tychoscope 1. http://gerp.free.fr/tycho%201%20et%20tycho%202r.jpg

The lines the Tychoscope drew on the test table sowing much more activity next to the cage with the chick in it.

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The coffee can size Tychoscope 1 with its outer shell removed reveling its circuit boards, wheels and motors.

The larger Tychoscope 2 in front of the smaller green Tychoscope 1. http://gerp.free.fr/tycho%201%20et%20tycho%202r.jpg

Man looking up at a night sky full of large gold or brass gears and a huge clock face. The Machine we Live in.

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