Richard Haier: 'In everyday life are some people more conscious than others?...Are those the people we might label as more intelligent?'<br>WOW! You mean that there really might be NPCs wandering around? Or Zombies even?<br>(It's always seemed like it to me, even way before we found those labels...),(reply>), <b>"From 80 to 90% of the population can be hypnotized to varying degrees...At least 5%   (10,000,000) of the U.S. population is extraordinarily hypnotizable, so easily hypnotizable  that they are in a constant state of exaggerated suggestibility," even when awake and going  about their normal daily routine. They are at the total mercy of all forms of influences and can easily be persuaded to do things and afterward have no idea why they did them..."</b><br><br><br><br>Dr.  Tobias H. Brocher", Director, Center for Applied Behavioral Sciences,  Menninger Foundation, Topeka, KS