[ExI] Sigh

[Will Steinberg]

John, just curious--what all would you consider to be considered "psi"?  It
seems there's not a catchall--I thought to have it mean "an action taken by
the human brain that is currently unexplainable by known physics," but a lot
of things that seem very non-psi would fall into that category.  A perhaps
tighter definition would be "an action taken by the human brain that
violates known physics," but I wouldn't quite put it there, either.

The problem is, what psi really does symbolize is a large group of fairly
unrelated phenomena.  Most seem to be considered conscious, mental
abilities.  I'm sure we can both agree that the mind can do some very wild
stuff, and that there are a LOT of things out there that we all could
certainly believe the mind was capable of much as we might believe a
powerful computer was.

What definition, exactly, do you reject?  It seems like your argument is for
the most part "Magic ain't real," but I doubt any of us don't think that.
 What do you think the human brain has, without question, zero capability
for?  This should clear a lot up.
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