David,
I'd like to know more about your consultancy.
Anyhow, you're right that I was being pretty hard. The trouble is that if medium research were ever to be found legitimate then it would have to stand up to extremely fierce scrutiny. People like James Randi are just downright pathological (and mean)! They give you the impression that there's just no way to cooly and reasonably examine such phenomena without a debunker coming in and pointing out everything that
could have actually happened when existence for psi was found. So I think all possible responses should be anticipated and accounted for and I think the experimenter should try to think in the mentality of the debunker in order to deal with people like Shermer et al. Of course I don't think medium research is going to turn the tables on psi research but if the data is significant and stands up to all scrutiny then mainstream science is only hurting itself by denying the experiment.
It also looks like you worked with AI and discuss consciousness at great length - also one of my interests, I did a paper on Searle and Dennett just recently. I'd be interested to hear your views more.
