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Originally Posted by Topher Not right. Some people think that is the case but that is just speculation. Remove viewing is a kind of protocol for clairvoyance -- a way of eliciting psi phenomena. |
Yes, agreed. And clairvoyance is supposed to work by some sort of out-of-body presence at the remote site, isn't it? I guess not. It's just supposed to work.
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Its not a quibble, but an important point that underlies a source of confusion that underly many of your arguments (e.g., requiring that the dog "view" and "parse out" the information from the "neural net" of its owners brain). Terms frequently have a general and a specific sense. Because of the specific sense, the term "sensory" carries a whole load of assumptions that are demonstrably inappropriate to ESP (which stands for extra sensory perception -- perception outside of sensory means).
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Sorry, I just don't understand how I can perceive something without using a sense. Even if I am somehow cognizing information out of thin air, it's still a sense. But anyhoo, it's just a quibble with definition.
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"Psi" is a label for the unknown explanatory principle or principles that underly the results found in parapsychology experiments. These results, in turn, are evidence for information transfer occurring sometimes under conditions that would preclude such transfer under current scientific understanding (I could swear I have defined that previously in this discussion, but I won't spend the time to look).
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Sounds good. It means we did a parapsychology experiment and we don't understand the results. I don't think most people use the term that way, but I'll try to. It's similar to the way people use the term UFO.
~~ Paul