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mk  ·  4879 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Phil Plait: Dear Playboy: Deepak Chopra is wrong
Yes, not much science, and a lot of feeling.

I read Robert Anton Wilson's Quantum Psychology some time ago, which is a similar display of pseudoscientific dribble. I don't see why Chopra doesn't pick organic chemistry as a means for explaining how we can alter our world with our consciousness.

It's always struck me how people are willing to believe what Chopra says quantum mechanics is, and yet don't bother to read what Shrodinger, Heisenberg of Feynman have to say about it. IMHO the reason is because what Chopra says is comforting and supportive of a human-centric view of the universe; but c'mon, grow up already. How much evidence do we need before we can grasp the situation that this is not all about us?