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autonomic conditioning qualify for million $s?

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Would autonomic conditioning qualify for the JREF challenge? Say if I could turn off portions of my nervous system or regulate body temperature and heart rate.
 
autonomic conditioning is supposedly an extension of other forms of behaviorial conditioning that applies the phyiscal parts of the human body. Several experiments were conducted to prove it existed and only one was positive. OF course that study was never succesfully replicated. So if I could regulate on demand my physical body functions that would be paranormal, because normal people cannot replicate it. For instance, raising my body temperature on demand to 99 degrees fahrenheit or lowering my heart rate to sleeping rate without entering a sleepstate.
 
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lowering my heart rate to sleeping rate without entering a sleepstate.
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Hey, James Bond can do that! :D

Did you hear about the man who could regulate his own heart rate?
He had a nerve!

Rolfe.

(This is the only joke I ever made up myself. Please laugh.)
 
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"I feel a lot more like I do than I did before I got here,now I feel like a beer";)
 
Rolfe said:
Did you hear about the man who could regulate his own heart rate?
He had a nerve!
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It's so incredibly bad that it's actually good! :D
 
For instance, raising my body temperature on demand to 99 degrees fahrenheit or lowering my heart rate to sleeping rate without entering a sleepstate.
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Sleep and control of body temperature are intertwined. I am interested to learn what method you use in order to achieve these objectives and if the results you get are progressive. What are your records ?

GABA

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NullPointerException said:
... So if I could regulate on demand my physical body functions that would be paranormal, because normal people cannot replicate it. ...
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I can juggle three balls with my eyes closed. Normal people cannot. Does that give me supernatural powers?

No--it just means I'm a damn good juggler! :D
 
Ohhhkay...

Sleep and control of body temperature are intertwined. I am interested to learn what method you use in order to achieve these objectives and if the results you get are progressive. What are your records?

I haven't conducted my own study on this yet, I'm currently devising a simple experiment to see how controlled such changes are, how quickly they are induced, if they can be induced outside of a specific state, if they can increase response delay and magnitude, and what the mechanism through which it occurs is. I just wanted to know if it would qualify for the JREF prize if it actually represented a human being exerting control over autonomic bodily functions. I was thinking they would refuse to test such a case since lowering your heart rate is hazardous to your health and hard to test(they would have to buy at least a 5 dollar stethoscope and hire a registered nurse for 30 minutes)

I can juggle three balls with my eyes closed. Normal people cannot. Does that give me supernatural powers?

Maybe, if you did it with your mind! *WANANAH*

No--it just means I'm a damn good juggler!

Maybe you are, but your act would not be considered paranormal because the entire scientific community wouldn't be sitting there going, oh wow thats amazing, oh wow how did he do that. Since autonomic conditioning is considered improbable and has been disproved as a conditioning method after thorough testing it would definately defy explanation the first time someone did it.

from dictionary.com we have Paranormal-
Beyond the range of normal experience or scientific explanation:
 
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