We look around and see innumerable things and to each we give a separate name. But most things are composites, made up of smaller, more fundamental things. So digging down to bedrock reality, what are the fewest numbers of independent things? Particles, forces, fields in the physical world? Anything mental? Anything spiritual?

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Dean Radin is a researcher and author in the field of parapsychology. He is a Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and has taught at Sonoma State University and the Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center.

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