[ExI] Psi in a major science journal

[Damien Broderick]

On 10/22/2010 9:42 AM, Richard Loosemore wrote:

>> But so far, after many, many years of 'interesting' research, none of
>> of the psi items have emerged, blinking, into the daylight as a
>> wonderful new product.
>> Maybe they will  - one day. But until then they remain filed.
>> 'Interesting', but filed.

> That position is pretty close to mine, if you put it that way.

Mine also, in a way. But then billions of dollars are being invested in 
the LHC and various deep space telescopes, the results of which seem 
unlikely to yield a Mall-full of wonderful new product any day soon. The 
value of finding out what's behind the anomalous results lumped together 
as "psi" isn't that we might get a garage door that opens when you make 
a wish, but that scientific insight into the structure of the universe 
will become deepened and more clarified. Knowing that events at t1 can 
be influenced by events at t1+n (as Bem and others have demonstrated) is 
a genuine contribution to human knowledge, whether or not the Amazing 
Mandrake can saunter into a casino and break the bank.

Damien Broderick