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Steve Gray
Steve Gray
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Yes, but...
May 18, 2004, 08:33
If I hadn't heard of TV or tape recorders, as a scientist I would still be able to appreciate the principles behind these devices if someone described them to me. I might still be a little incredulous that they could be actually made to work, but I could at least appreciate them in theory. In the case of the tape recorder I would also be able to systematically verify that it was able to reproduced whatever sounds it was presented with.

What's lacking with the concept of "place" recording for me is any suggestion of how events could imprint themselves on a place, how they could be stored and how they could be played back, in such a way that they are confusable with reality. That implies a huge storage of detail and no losses due to the passage of time. A pretty tall order for any information storage system.

IF (big if) there was such a mechanism it must surely operate by direct influence of the observer's mind, as opposed to producing actual optical images. I would therefore expect that the effect would be a vague influence that the observer would "fill in" with detail. But this is not what is reported if tales such as the Roman soldiers at York are to be believed (the observer was able to describe items of tunic that were unknown outside of specialist academic circles).

That's why I have such a hard time with it. It's just too realistic to be plausible.

You might just as well say that it's the wind or the clouds that do the recording. There just doesn't seem to be any evidence to support the conjecture. I'm quite happy to change my mind if you can show me some real evidence or describe a plausible mechanism.
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