I think what might help is if you quote original material asserting autonomy. IOW quotes of people whose position you are expressing skepticism about.
If I was launching a formal challenge or article on the subject, yes, I agree with what you are recommending. However if I did I wouldn't be publishing via sciforums or any online forum as the effort would be wasted due to the attitude of many posters as is typical of online forums such as this one.
Autonomy (and a term like interconnectedness for that matter) is pretty open ended. But if you had quotes that went into greater detail, it might make it clearer degree.
Granted and agree totally with what you are suggesting. [maybe next time I will prepare a better show of it for sciforums member entertainment.]
Also if you were specific about phenomena you think seem exceptions given only the current scientifically accepted forms of connection/information exchange and similarity.
From idea to publishing here the time span was approximately 30 minutes. No in depth assessment but merely an idea that no doubt will mature over time.
Generally, current scientific thought fails to take into account the full gamut of what it is positing and feels confident with..IMO
I may be wrong, but I would guess you are working from intuition (that something is missing from the current scientific model.) I think this is valid, however starting a discussing here based on intuition will only get counter intuitions. Oh, I think this is covered by.........(whatever, similar genes, language despite errors, etc.) So we end up with one intuition being responded to by other intuitive assessments.
Yes there appears to be much that is missing from the thinking on the subject overall hence this topic poser about autonomy to start the process of greater depth of inquiry.
I hope you don't mind my backseat driving. I will counter D's assertion that there is no evidence of psychic activity. This is not the case. Whether there is sufficient evidence is where the controversy lies.
I am rarely granted support for my most often radical views and I appreciate it even if you feel you are back seat driving, it is much better than driving alone.
Psychic activity is an instinctive and intuitive phenomena that underpins our consciousness as all we observe and are able to observe due to our inherent paranoia of the paranormal is merely the tip of the iceberg so to speak.
Rarely does it fall into the realm of conscious decision making as it's primary function is to support subconsciously, or unconsciously, that decision making and not be a part of that conscious decision making. When it does and the person is ill-equipped he or she normally fails to maintain normal function in society and either becomes a fringe dweller [ such as the Romani - Sinti Gypsy's*, occult wiccans, pagans, card readers and astrologers etc etc ] or ends up undergoing psychiatric care.
After all, one could quite reasonably argue that the evolution of organised/regulated religion was primarlly about creating order in society and where paganism occult etc etc threatened such order, persecution followed.
What would or should lead one to believe that a significant/real process is not being included at this point in the scientifically validated interconnections?
might be another way to word what I am getting at above.
yes another and perhaps better approach..
I'll add one other issue. Some people, perhaps most, seem not simply autonomous, but nearly impervious to experience - whatever experience, mundane, psychic.
When one destroys the ability to be receptive to psychic phenomena by over emphasizing the belief in it's non-existence, emotional and empathic dampening can be experienced, leading to a sort of depressive state and one that is fundamentally unhappy. [ or so I have observed]
Nice post and thanks for the food for thought....
* I have done some limited research and study into the Romani-Sinti groupings/race and the results are quite amazing when considered agnotically and leaves one impressed at how they as a group/race have managed to survive at all. [ I had to do a memorial web site for the WW2 Holocaust victims [ approx: 500,000 perished in the camps] which is how I became interested in their plight.
I am currently doing research into the flocking habits of birds as well. [ currently fully discounted by science as expected, until you take every frame of a video recording in as part of the assessment process and then it becomes obvious that psychic connectivity is occuring...but as yet to be substantiated fully - too busy trying to earn an income to devote too much time to it.]