Saturday #NoeticSpectrum : We can and have measured external physical effects of conscious focus or intent in experiments with human subjects in laboratory settings...literally for decades. The data demonstrates directed consciousness is at a lower bound weakly interacting as a field , but we don't have an associated physical theory, force carrier or mediator. Sound familiar ?
...part of the problem is how we bind our concepts of physics. If a particular phenomenology is an epiphenomena in more than two dimensions and includes non linear variables it's almost out of our conceptual reach. There are notable exceptions - like quantum mechanics. Sometimes we generalize and wind up with understanding. #Solitons are a good example. #Quasiparticles are another. But we've barely scratched the surface of what's out there