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Old 06-24-2008, 11:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Mike(Mont) View Post
Yes, I think science is smart enough to use the brainwave binoculars technology to access the subconscious of a dowser. As I have said, dowsing is seeing what is already there (on the subconscious level). Why can't some people understand? Seek and Ye shall find.
In fact this sounds more like simple pattern recognition.

There was an interesting experiment where the American army used a neural network to examine pictures of American and Russian tanks. After training the network was able to identify all the tank pictures with 100% accuracy. But - when they then used the network to try and identify whether some previously unseen pictures contained an American or a Russian tank, the results were a complete failure. Eventually they discovered the reason ... all the American tank pictures were taken on a sunny day, and the Russian tanks pictures were taken on a cloudy day. The neural network had learned to identify the difference between sunny and cloudy!
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