Plausibility of homeopathy and conventional chemical therapy: the systemic memory resonance hypothesis.
The controversy surrounding clinical observations and double-blind studies on homeopathic treatments is lessened when modern dynamical systems analysis is applied to high-dilution therapies. The logic of recurrent feedback loops, which applies to all dynamical network systems, inexorably leads to the systemic memory hypothesis - that complex patterns of emergent information and energy are stored to various degrees in physical, chemical, and biological systems. The addition of resonance, a dynamic pattern recognition process, explains many classic observations using high-dilution therapies. The systemic memory resonance hypothesis potentially provides a plausible biophysical mechanism for explaining not only how high-dilution therapies contribute to healing, but by extension, how information and energy in low-dilution and chemical therapies contribute to healing as well.
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Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721-0068, USA. GSCHWAR@u.arizona.edu
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D004358:Drug Therapy; D005246:Feedback; D006705:Homeopathy; D006801:Humans