The Delpasse-Effect

- 19 - 2. 0 The DELPASSE-EFFECT 2. 1 Neurologist Dr. Grey Walter discovers the standby wave We can assume that Professor Delpasse’ peers would not have shown the necessary understanding for his idiosyncratic ideas to begin with. It therefore does not come as a surprise that Delpasse kept his contemplations to himself to begin with, even though his contemplations and the construction of cybernetic machines during his everyday field of work did not go beyond what’s admissible. Cybernetics, who received its first impetus through the American mathematician Norbert Wiener, draws comparisons between information-storage in the nervous systems of animals and the information-storage in computers. About 52 years ago, the English neurologist Dr. Grey Walter constructed his “machina speculatrix”, a scouting robot. This small machine, displaying thought behaviour by reacting to light, drew the attention of experts within the ranks of cyberneticists. It gave Delpasse the impetus to take an interest in other works of the idiosyncratic neurologist from Bristol. It came to pass that Delpasse was stimulated through another experiments by Dr. Grey Walter to come up with an idea that was so unusual, that Delpasse decided to keep it to himself for the time being. Dr. Grey Walter sat a test person in front of an accordingly modified television set and placed a pressure switch into her hand that could be used to switch the set on and off. The test person was told that switching it on would display a very interesting image on the screen. The brainwave curves were collected via electrodes and recorded with an EEC device. It was determined that shortly bevor the test person activated the switch, an electrical impulse developed in the brain. Dr. Grey Walter called this electrical impulse “standby wave”, because the test person signalised the decision to operate the switch with it. The impulses received by the brain electrodes attached to the test person were now amplified with a suitable circuit and connected to the television set. The originally weak arousal impulse was amplified to a current surge that was powerful enough to switch the television set on. • The test person no longer had to operate the switch in her hand. It sufficed for her to think about wanting to press the switch, and the image appeared on the monitor. This however only functioned for as long as the appeal of the new remained. Once the interest of the test person waned, she was no longer able to produce a sufficiently strong standby wave. Convulsive efforts of will did not help either, only the natural excitement caused by curiosity was able to trigger a standby wave. • The results stands in striking agreement with the fact that human mediums are also only able to produce their feats in a state of relaxed attention. Even the most gifted sensitive is unable to display paranormal abilities with an effort of will. This could be the reason why paranormal events are almost always impossible to repeat under laboratory conditions. Spontaneity seems to be the premise - the way it is the premise for the production of the standby wave.

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