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Originally Posted by David Bailey  All you are doing is putting impossible conditions on ψ research, because you don't believe any of it is true! |
If animals (including humans) had an organ we didn't know the purpose of, and if we could detect the field Sheldrake (for example) is talking about (and know about the nature of this unknown field, and how it can brought back informations from the future for example in order to explain precognition), so maybe we could speculate that the organ is taping into this field and extracting from it some informations. And start doing research about that.
But here the situation is:
we don't have any anatomic clue in favor of the existence of an organ like that. We have the eyes to see, the ears to hear, the hands for touching, the tongue for testing, but NOTHING for psi. Of course there is the brain, but there is NOTHING in the brain that could be claimed as being able to detect anything (except trough sensory input from the senses we know).
And claiming that the brain is like a radio detcting "vibrations" of somekind is just plain crap.
So absolutely no physiological ground for psi whatsoever.
And of course we can't detect the field Sheldrake claims is used for psi.
So no physiological basis for detecting a field that we can't detect by other means, so that we can't be sure that field even exist in the first place!!!
So hell we scientifics have obvious reasons to be skeptical. After that he comes with some statistic anomalies about dogs wandering about in houses, but that doesn't prove his theory. And statistic anomalies, well you know "Correlations is not causation".
At the end of the day, Sheldrake's theory is pure speculation...