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    Heisenberg Fridays* - Why Baby Chicks Are Smarter Than You!

    If you want to get things done in life, to break through seemingly insurmountable obstacles — you may want to hire a chick to help you. A baby chick. Preferably fresh from the egg.

    What do these newborn baby chicks know that you don’t know? What can they do that you can’t? They can influence machines with the power of their thoughts. Embarrassing, I know. But read on and you’ll learn their secrets.

    And no, this is not a cheep** publicity stunt. It’s the real deal. No new age woo-woo, just solid science. Documented science. Interestingly enough, while I can see this being excluded from the more philosophically-based film “The Secret,” it should have been in the more scientifically-based “What The Bleep.” Maybe they did include it and it was cut for time.

    At the end of this post is a link to the research paper that documents this outlandishly-cool experiment. 

    Like I typically do with marketing, sales and copywriting topics, I’ll give you the context so it’s easier to grasp what is important about the research.

    Amazing Kreskin Chicks Cracked The Case

    The scientists took newborn baby chicks and imprinted them to a machine that look like a mother hen. The machine was actually a tychoscope which is a fancy name for a small, self-propelled robot that uses a random event generator to determine its movements.

    The environment for the experiment was a long corridor with two branching hallways at the end of it. Picture a “T” shape and you’ll get the idea.

    The mechanical mother hen was programmed to travel down a corridor 100,000 times and at the end of the corridor it was programmed to go left down one side of the “T” approximately 50,000 times and to the right the other 50,000 times – randomly.

    One side of the “T” contained the human subjects, the other the baby chicks.

    Because the baby chicks were imprinted with this machine as their mother, when they saw it coming down the corridor, they would cheep incessantly, calling out to their mama. And in fact, over the course of 100,000 turns, the mechanical mama hen would go down the corridor containing the baby chicks more often than the one containing the humans!

    Insert collective “Oy Vie!” for human achievement.

    Why were the baby chicks so proficient at this? Because animals are much better at expressing pure intent than “rational” thinking humans. These baby chicks had only 3 thoughts, ”Mama!”, “Where’s my food?”, and “Keep me warm!” 

    Consequently, astoundingly, as a result of that focused intent, the baby chicks were radically influencing the machine, and far more so than the humans down the other hallway. But it is worth noting that the humans did considerably better when the newborn chicks were removed from the experiment.

    Put another way, when the focused consciousnesses of the chicks were removed, the human consciousnesses did statistically better.

    “Whotta revoltin’ development!”

    Practical Applications

    Interesting that this research came out at the same time that scientists were proving the seemingly bizarre nature of quantum mechanics — that the mere observation of subatomic particles can affect how they behave. And you’re probably wondering what’s the big ‘whup’ about subatomic particles?

    As I detailed in the first Heisenberg Friday post, you are and everything in your life is composed of these subatomic particles.

    Every. Thing. Every. One.

    So, in the context of your life what does that mean? Simply this, if day old-baby chicks can influence a machine with focused intent, then imagine what you could do with such intent. It’s a good question. In “What The Bleep,” Dr. Joe Dispenza touched on this subject in one of the film’s most popular segments about creating your day.

    Here’s what I think it is — the older we get, the more we have a tendency to become less focused because there are so many distractions and all those thoughts accumulate and weigh on our minds. But the baby chicks have only a single thought — a single intent – only one focused outcome: Mama! I need you. Come to me!

    So you see, it’s all about intention and the way you focus your intention affects reality. In fact, as you’ve seen, it’s so simple a baby chick can do it. Hmm, wonder if Geico is looking for a new spokes-animal? “So simple, even a baby chick can do it!” That’ll really PO those prissy cavemen.

    What does to mean for you? Simply put, it means that what you’ve been thinking about has been and is affecting your life. Like it or not, positive or negative – your continuous thought streams keep your day-to-day reality intact. Don’t like your reality? Change your habitual thoughts. It really is as simple and as challenging as that.

    And since you know what a research-hound I am, I would never present such an outrageous premise to you without the facts to back it up, so here’s the research abstract.

    Remember, “extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.” Something the purveyors of “The Secret” forgot.

    Baby chicks research paper: http://www.parapsych.org/pa_convention_abstracts_2002.html#12

    You can snag a copy Dr. Dispenza’s book below. I’m reading it now and it is one of the most mind-opening, astonishing books I have ever read:

     

    * = About Heisenberg Fridays. Each Friday’s post will be the one post where I can talk about whatever I want outside of the realms of marketing, sales, advertising or copywriting. More often than not, it will be about one of my favorite studies –  the research into quantum mechanics and how consciousness influences reality.

    So for most of the week you’ll be certain of the overall theme of my posts, but each Friday there will be that uncertainty about the topic. Thus my tip of the hat to Werner Heisenberg the creator of quantum mechanics’ Uncertainty Principle.

    ** = Yes I know the difference between “cheap” and “cheep.” Go with the joke, man. 

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