虽然略有争议性且显“民科”，但这是可以用很简单的实验来验证的假想\假说，国外有对遥祈的安慰剂效应做的对照试验，有些据说无可观察效应，有些有效但备受争议。我想，还是有必要进行更多的实验，如果有效也未尝不是好事，确证没效的话，就不误导更多人了（当然可能没那么容易证明或证伪啊）。

http://beta.briefideas.org/ideas/3d6ef86d41aa5d8edafe9437f3b8ead0

Hypothesis of Buddhism activity of freeing captive animals in huge amount may have quantum superposition effects of consciousness and lead to discernible placebo effects.

By Zhuangzhuang Kang

buddhism placebo effect release animals quantum mechanics of consciousness

1: Placebo effect sometimes plausibly has powerful effects.
2: Buddhism philosophy holds that every living animal is sentient, and has a consciousness and killing them is bad for the killer and freeing them is good somehow. Consciousness may involve some aspects of quantum mechanism as Roger Penrose’s Orch OR' theory of consciousness pointed out.

3: Although previous studies show that there is no “demonstrable effects of distant intercessory prayer. Anecdotal cases of a special kind of Buddhist activity of freeing captive animals in huge amount seem to have powerful therapeutic effects on severe and terminal patients. We want test it experimentally.
4: The cunning point that exceeds previous stuies is, it’s reasonable to consider there may be collective and superpositional effects of this activity due to the likely quantum mechanism of consciousness, and it may play as a sort of magnifying glass that shows a discernible placebo effect.

5:We recruit a considerable number of patients that are terminally ill and the doctors said they can not help them anymore and have double-blind experiments of the above idea.The statistics may show some anomalous distribution. Ethical concerns shall take into consideration.