Updated View on the Rice Experiments of Masaru Emoto

Abstract

Masaru Emoto has carried out extremely interesting experiments with water at the critical point against freezing. Emoto reports that words expressing emotions are transmitted to water: the expression of positive emotions tend to generate beautiful crystal structures and negative emotions ugly ones. Also music and even pictures are claimed to have similar effects. Emoto has also carried out similar experiments with rice in water at physiological temperature. Rice subjected to words began to ferment and water subject to words expressing negative emotions began to rotten. I have already earlier discussed a model for the findings of Emoto. In this article I update the model. I will also ask new questions. How emotions are communicated at the fundamental level and how a conscious entity can perceive the emotional state of another conscious entity and possibly affect it? What does emotional intelligence mean? How could one assign a measure of conscious emotional information to the emotional state? How certain sounds or gestures with emotional contents or even pictures can induce emotional response at the fundamental DNA level?