Do computers exhibit morphic resonance?
The thought occurred to me just now as I waited for data via the painfully slow (23kbps down/32 up) dial-up Internet connection I’ve been downgraded to for the past three days as a result of Comcast’s “all-or-nothing” high-speed service. By that I mean when it’s on, I get about 14,000 down/750 up (“all”) but when it inexplicably stops working — as it does on an almost daily basis for minutes, hours or longer (as is the case currently), with no sign of inclement weather and my cable TV coming into my house just fine via the very same wire that can’t seem to simultaneously deliver the Internet — the speed drops to (doh!) 0, i.e., “nothing.” Don’t bother with advice/suggestions — I’ve followed it/them all repeatedly and this is simply the way it is. But I digress. Rupert Sheldrake is a generally discredited scientist whose work is termed heretical by those who consider him a revolutionary genius and quackery by those who don’t. Regardless, his theory of morphic resonance, whereby living t
