[extropy-chat] John Wright Finds God

[Dirk Bruere]

Damien Broderick wrote:

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>> As for psi phenomena, there is plenty of experimental evidence.
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> Granting this (as I do, to the horror of many extropes), there is no 
> obvious link between that evidence and claims of the supernatural.
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I tend to agree.
However, I think it is likely there is a link between psi phenonena and 
altered states of consciousness.
Problem is that no really new and interesting experiments are being 
done. For example, I'd like a PEAR-like machine to be coupled with 
people on LSD to see what happens.

> Granting its validity for the sake of the discussion, psi evidence 
> might suggest that, e.g., quantum entanglement *can* convey 
> information under some circumstances, etc; what it doesn't do (unless 
> a deity bafflingly likes to help willing subjects gain scores of 70%, 
> at best, when 50% or 20% would be expected by chance) is manifest the 
> activities of a divine designer/sustainer of our observable ontology. 
> No more than lightning, however inexplicable at the time, proved the 
> reality of a thundering storm god.
>
Well, Thor is still around and still has followers (me, for example).

-- 
Dirk

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