From: Rupert Sheldrake To: jeffrey E. <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Introduction of two creative minds Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 15:06:15 +0000 Dear Jeffrey, What an interesting suggestion! I had in fact thought in terms of morphic resonance experiments using plasma in the laboratory to see whether habits would build up. But I didn't know about this natural experiment with lightening striking twice in the same place. I'm interested in lightening anyway, so thanks very much for this. Rupert On 18 Jun 2015, at 12:32, jeffrey E. wrote: look forward to it. . suggestion. the study of lightning, shows that the second strike is much more likely to follow the path of the first strike. negating the idea of independent events. quantum description suggest that the electrons calculate all paths at once and travel along the fastest route. the ionization around the path of the first reduces the calculation of the second one to to the one already known. . what does not appear intuitive at first , is that once an event ( shape , ) occurs, it joins a new probability space. smaller than the original one without the event. the questions would be is the new space symmetric? did its entropy change. ? is zipf law a projection in the space on a plane. . more face to face On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 7:12 AM, Rupert Sheldrake wrote: Dear Jeffrey, Good, so let's try and meet up when you're next in Britain or Paris. I've often puzzled over Zif's law and have no idea about how to understand it more deeply. But I don't think it's particularly related to morphic resonance. Rupert On 16 Jun 2015, at 18:39, jeffrey E. wrote: glad to hear it. will follow up if and when I am your vicinity, . As there is no true derivation of Zipfs law. though extensive analysis tried or as you are aware few of the other power laws. do they provide a concrete formularization for some of your morphic ideas? . On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Rupert Sheldrake wrote: Dear Jeffrey, Many t