The chicks could see the robot but couldn’t move toward it or follow it, despite their instincts to do so.

But instead, the chicks were placed in an enclosure just to the right of the robot’s rectangular space. If the chicks had been given free rein, they’d have followed the robot along its randomly chosen paths. Peoc’h then hatched a group of chicks and imprinted those chicks on the robot. So in that rectangle you’re imagining, you’d see random, jagged lines traced throughout the entire space. When Peoc’h placed his robot in the rectangular space, its path went all over the rectangle. Instead, imagine a rectangle on the ground in front of you. Obviously, we can’t show you any graphics in this Blink. Peoc’h built it to turn right 50 percent of the time and to turn left the other half of the time. The robot traveled forward, choosing to turn left or right at random times. He built a robot with random-choice-generator software installed. The French researcher René Peoc’h first demonstrated this very phenomenon in 1995.

But you also give off energy, and because of that, you can affect both your body and the world around you by merely focusing your consciousness. Most of your life involves being matter, being a tangible being. The equation also shows how everything that contains mass is a certain amount of energy, just in stationary form. Essentially, any tangible mass that travels faster than the speed of light becomes pure energy – it can’t hold its material form. For those of us who need a refresher, that equation describes how mass becomes energy and vice versa. Remember learning about Einstein in physics class? E = mc².

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