Extrasensory Perception

I define extrasensory perception as the ability to perceive events or conditions, originating at any place or time, without the use of sight, smell, taste, touch or hearing. Such perceptions may be of oneself, another person, an animal, plant or object. These abilities are commonly known as precognition, clairvoyance, telepathy, psychometry and remote viewing. I also include in this category, out-of-body perceptions such as the near-death experience and astral projection.

I will not be discussing Telekinesis, the manipulation of objects.

I was trained as an electronics technician specializing in computer systems, at a time when such professions were rare. After a few years in the field, my colleagues and I realized that much of the conventional wisdom about electronics simply did not apply when it came to high speed integrated circuits and software. We developed our own knowledge base and terminology that later became the discarded conventional wisdom of the next generation.

It's funny how things work out. Most of my professional career has been spent maintaining electronic information systems; and much of my understanding of information itself has been molded by this experience. As a consequence, I will, from time to time, borrow terminology from this field to assist in my explanation.

Still, I think it's fairly safe to say that if you're going to have information, you're going to need someplace to put it. Information cannot exist without some kind of storage system. This is hardly a radical idea, but it produces many problems, as you will soon see.

For the purpose of this discussion, I've divided information into two types. Primary information has to do with the properties of objects. Color, size, wavelength and mass are but a few examples of such properties. Then there is secondary information. This is where one or more of an object's properties are manipulated to produce coded messages. Stone tablets without any carvings would just be stone. Books without print, would just be paper. The smallest known form of secondary information is the coding scheme used in Deoxyribonucleic Acid, or DNA. OK, maybe there is something smaller, but you get the idea.

All information needs a physical carrier in order for it to exist.