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background-color:#CCEADD;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alternative_medicine" title="Alternative medicine">Alternative medicine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Creationism" title="Creationism">Creationism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Racialism" title="Racialism">Racialism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pseudopsychology" title="Pseudopsychology">Pseudopsychology</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#009955; text-align:center;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Pseudoscience" title="Category:Pseudoscience"><font color="white">Random examples</font></a></b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#CCEADD;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Scientific_creationism" title="Scientific creationism">Scientific creationism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psychoanalysis" title="Psychoanalysis">Psychoanalysis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Falsifiability_of_creationism" title="Falsifiability of creationism">Falsifiability of creationism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Memon" title="Memon">Memon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Le_Fanu" title="James Le Fanu">James Le Fanu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Humans_are_herbivores" title="Humans are herbivores">Humans are herbivores</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/My_Genes_Made_Me_Do_It" title="My Genes Made Me Do It">My Genes Made Me Do It</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_McCanney" title="James McCanney">James McCanney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Finding_Bigfoot" title="Finding Bigfoot">Finding Bigfoot</a></li></ul> <div class="vte plainlinks" style="font-size:smaller; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Template:Pseudosciencenav" title="Template:Pseudosciencenav">v</a> - <a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Pseudosciencenav" title="Template talk:Pseudosciencenav">t</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Pseudosciencenav&action=edit">e</a></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Noetic science</b>, according to its promoters, is an "exploration into the nature and potentials of <a href="/wiki/Consciousness" title="Consciousness">consciousness</a> using <a href="/wiki/Crank_magnetism" title="Crank magnetism">multiple ways of knowing—including intuition, feeling, reason, and the senses"</a>, most famously mentioned by <a href="/wiki/Dan_Brown" title="Dan Brown">Dan Brown</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Lost_Symbol" class="mw-redirect" title="The Lost Symbol">The Lost Symbol</a></i>. </p><p>Note that noetic "science" and noetic philosophy are distinct. Noetic (from the Greek <i>noetikos</i>, "mental") philosophy is philosophy dealing with the mind, intellect, or consciousness. However, this more often goes under the more obvious name of "theory" or "<a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_mind" class="mw-redirect" title="Philosophy of mind">philosophy of mind</a>" these days. Noetic "science" is closer to the pseudoscience of <a href="/wiki/Parapsychology" title="Parapsychology">parapsychology</a> and other such <a href="/wiki/New_Age" title="New Age">New Age</a> fluff as "<a href="/wiki/Not_even_wrong" title="Not even wrong">expanding your consciousness</a>." </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Institute_of_Noetic_Sciences"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Institute of Noetic Sciences</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="#Global_Consciousness_Project"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Global Consciousness Project</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Impact_of_The_Lost_Symbol"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Impact of <i>The Lost Symbol</i></span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Institute_of_Noetic_Sciences">Institute of Noetic Sciences</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Noetic_science&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Institute of Noetic Sciences">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>The Institute of Noetic Sciences is the primary outlet for this form of <a href="/wiki/Woo" title="Woo">woo</a>. It was co-founded by former astronaut <a href="/wiki/Edgar_Mitchell" title="Edgar Mitchell">Edgar Mitchell</a> and billionaire and former Exxon executive Paul N. Temple, who is also associated with the <a href="/wiki/Fundamentalist" class="mw-redirect" title="Fundamentalist">fundamentalist</a> <a href="/wiki/Christian" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian">Christian</a> organization <a href="/wiki/The_Family" class="mw-redirect" title="The Family">The Family</a>, </p><p>According to the Institute, the core of Noetic Science is as follows: </p> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>Noetic sciences are explorations into the nature and potentials of <a href="/wiki/Consciousness" title="Consciousness">consciousness</a> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>All of which sounds more like <a href="/wiki/Other_ways_of_knowing" title="Other ways of knowing">other ways of knowing</a> than <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">science</a>. </p><p>Unsurprisingly, noetic science has come under criticism from <a href="/wiki/Skeptic" class="mw-redirect" title="Skeptic">skeptics</a> and actual scientists, and the organization <a href="/wiki/Quackwatch" title="Quackwatch">Quackwatch</a> has placed the Institute of Noetic Science on the "questionable organizations" list.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup> </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Global_Consciousness_Project">Global Consciousness Project</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Noetic_science&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Global Consciousness Project">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>The Global Consciousness Project (GCP) is more or less the <a href="/wiki/Parapsychology#Specific_programs" title="Parapsychology">PEAR project</a> applied on a global scale. The idea is that random number generators (RNG) run by GCP will be affected by the focused attention of many people or high emotions from a worldwide event (i.e., the alleged "global consciousness"). This essentially boils down to running a whole bunch of RNGs, waiting for a <a href="/wiki/Improbable_things_happen" title="Improbable things happen">spurious, statistically significant result</a>, and then claiming to have successfully detected a "great disturbance in The Force."<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup> </p><p>The project also has a <a href="/wiki/Bias" class="mw-redirect" title="Bias">bias</a> of trying to prove that <a href="/wiki/Paranormal" title="Paranormal">paranormal</a> experiences are true. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Impact_of_The_Lost_Symbol">Impact of <i>The Lost Symbol</i></span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Noetic_science&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Impact of The Lost Symbol">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Following the publication of <a href="/wiki/Dan_Brown" title="Dan Brown">Dan Brown</a>'s book promoting noetic <a href="/wiki/Woo" title="Woo">woo</a> the institute has reported a twelve-fold increase in traffic to its web site and an increase in new members,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup> indicating that at least some people take Brown's work seriously. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Noetic_science&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dean_Radin" title="Dean Radin">Dean Radin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panpsychism" title="Panpsychism">Panpsychism</a></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Noetic_science&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="font-size:90%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://noetic.org/about/what-are-noetic-sciences">What is Noetic Science?</a> Institute of Noetic Science</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.quackwatch.org/04ConsumerEducation/nonrecorg.html">Quackwatch — Questionable Organizations</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.skepdic.com/globalconsciousness.html">Global Consciousness</a> in <a href="/wiki/The_Skeptic%27s_Dictionary" title="The Skeptic's Dictionary">The Skeptic's Dictionary</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lfr.org/lfr/csl/library/Sep1101.pdf">GCP: An Independent Analysis of the 11 September 2001 events</a>, Edwin C. 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