I never said it was nonliving.

The most parsimonious hypothesis I have come up with is that Reiki is life. (That's a bit of a cop-out because both terms are somewhat loosely defined so there's enough wiggle room to simply equate them, and it doesn't really add much to a scientific conversation does it?)

Check out: "What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System - NeurIPS 2018"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjD1aLm4Thg

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698

Reiki could be as simple and (relatively!) unremarkable as some kind of biological near-field communication ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-field_communication )

> Put up or shut up.

Honestly, I'm just some weirdo on the internet. I'm in SF, if you're ever out this way hit me up and I'll demonstrate Reiki for you. There are Reiki practitioners in your city no doubt. If you're really interested you should go meet some of them. I'm willing to keep answering your questions but if you want to really see hard science doing some wild "supernatural" stuff, Levin's work (above) is much more worth your time.

Cheers! :-)

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edit: I was rereading my replies and it occurred to me that since, as I told AgentME, there is apparently no distance limit to Reiki, we could attempt a demonstration. To wit: if you reply within, say, 24 hours with a time (Pacific Standard if you would be so kind) I'll go ahead and do a distance treatment on you. The image from your Github account is enough to "dial it in". (For sake of parity I'll tell you that I'm "calroc" on that site. You can see what I look like. ;-) Maybe nothing happens, maybe something. YMMV

@AgentME, same offer.

> The open question remains as to why some animals can do so again and humans dont.

One of those talks that blew me away: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/RjD1aLm4Thg

Professor Michael Levin talks abt how certain animals regrow their body parts and how this process can be transmuted to other species. A very nascent but civilization altering research.

Edit: HN discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18742131

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698 (thx u/carapace)

The last coauthor listed on this preprint is Michael Levin, who has a lot of other cool work.

In particular, this talk of his from NeurIPS 2018 includes fascinating biology research results, as well as musings on the future of biologically-inspired artificial intelligence.

https://youtu.be/RjD1aLm4Thg

HN discussion about the talk: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698