[ExI] Psi in a major science journal, J. Personality and Social Psychology

Richard Loosemore rpwl at lightlink.com
Thu Oct 21 17:04:58 UTC 2010


AlgaeNymph wrote:
> On 10/21/10 8:03 AM, Richard Loosemore wrote:
>> Actually, this is just factually incorrect.  Me, personally, I have 
>> read dozens of papers that try to analyze how it works.  They may not 
>> be good explanations, but they are attempts, at least.
> 
> Do you know of them, or where specifically I can find them?  Also, what 
> explanations did they give?

See previous comments to Keith Henson.

The ones I can remember were mostly in EJP and JP (European Journal of 
Parapsychology and Journal of Parapsychology).  They would be from the 
early 80s.

As I said in the other message, I do not think they succeeded.  But if 
you read them, you can see people making serious efforts to wrestle with 
the titanic problem of making theoretical sense of psi.

Mostly they related to quantum mechanics, since some relationship with 
the observer issue in QM seems to be involved.

Trouble is, intentionality.   You can sling QM ideas around all you 
like, but at the end of the day you have to connect them to the fact 
that what people *intend* is related to what happens.  That is bad news, 
theory-wise.

If you are able to find lists of contents for EJP from the early 80s you 
may be able to track down some of those papers.  Or you could ILL them 
from your library of choice.  I am so out of date I cannot even recall 
the names of the main people.  I do know, however, that some of them 
left the field, as I did, due to lack of funding and lack of respect.



Richard Loosemore








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