Elusive by Law · source record · paper

Synchronistic Phenomena as Entanglement Correlations in Generalized Quantum Theory

von Lucadou, W.; Römer, H.; Walach, H. · 2007

AI-verified citationSRC-LUCADOU-ROMER-WALACH-2007

identifier / locator: Journal of Consciousness Studies 14(4): 50–74
verification note: Full text retrieved and read during the 2026-08-22 verification batch; quotes in the evidence records are verbatim from that text.
reliability notes: The clearest statement of the NT axiom, the decline prediction, and the matrix-design rationale, by the model's three principal theorists.
A theory paper: it asserts, but does not itself test, the predictions.

Evidence drawn from this source

Supports· strongMPI-E009

what the source states: "Entanglement correlations cannot be used for transmitting signals or controllable causal influences." From this the paper derives: an apparent causal effect "will be wiped out, if one tries to corroborate it by improving statistics through attempts at replicating the effect. This is the well known and often experienced decline effect. The decline effect will be faster, if the original effect was stronger: the reciprocity of effect strength and reproducibility is a further prediction of Generalized Quantum Theory." Correlations "may even change sign or disappear altogether, or else show up again in different observables and/or between different parts of the system."
what we infer: Establishes that the decline/displacement predictions are genuinely in print (2007) rather than retrofitted to the 2017–2021 failures. Note the strength–reproducibility reciprocity: a distinctive, testable piece of fine structure that no replication has yet targeted with a prespecified metric.
limitations: A theory paper: this record evidences what the model predicts, not that the predictions are true.

Supports· strongMPI-E011

what the source states: "In order to reduce the decline effect, one should make positive use of the evasion phenomenon. This can be done by simultaneous registration of as many different correlations as possible. Psi effects will then show up as transitory, jumping unexpected and statistically unlikely patterns in the correlation matrix. Clearly, by such measures it will never be possible to overcome the decline effect completely and to convince every sceptic."
what we infer: The design rationale concedes in advance that the paradigm will not produce skeptic-proof replication — a candor that reads either as theoretical consistency or as a pre-announced excuse, depending on the attribution rung. Either way, it binds MPI to the matrix record as its best available test.
limitations: Same source and authors as MPI-E009; not an independent attestation.