Will and the Observer Effect

An occasional experience is when it feels to one as if 'one is being watched', followed by confirmation, e. g. by the discovery that someone behind has indeed been looking at one's back. One explanation of such an experience is that it is an instance of the 'Observer Effect', a term more usually used to characterize how mere observation influences an experiment. In the mundane experiential case, that rubric would imply that the act of observation actually entails some causal efficacy, e. g. the emission of an impulse felt by the target. Now, according to some predominant Epistemological theories, the Observer Effect is in such a case impossible in principle, because they hold either that observation is a passive process and/or one the subject of which incorporeal, and, therefore, incapable of generating a physical emission. In contrast, on the basis of the model, presented here, that observation is a mode of Will, i. e. of externalizing Motility, the question of the validity of the Observer Effect is an empirical one, a re-classification which the experimental instance of the phenomenon suffices to justify.