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Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos  Most parapsychologists don't use any sort of brain analysis equipment, so they are making this distinction already. What good would it do them, exactly? |
Paul, let me clarify, I mean looking for the causal direction, I don't mean every parapsychologist must adopt fMRI (although presentiment studies are very intriguing in that the direction of cause is at odds with classical materialism)
Hypotheses can be tested without fMRI, for example Dr Ian Stevenson's research suggests young children might be more psychic and it diminishes with age. If true, one cannot easily argue the direction the brain is evolving psi, logically the direction would be the brain development filters it out.
One cannot falsify materialism by taking a snapshot because any snapshot measurement can just be called material ... the only way (I think) to falsify materialism is too look for problems in causal direction, how it would evolve, what is generating what, etc.