<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/18/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Sondre Bjellås</b> <<a href="mailto:sondre.bjellas@intellifield.no">sondre.bjellas@intellifield.no</a>> wrote:<br><br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'm having a hard time figuring out the evolutionary basis for remote viewing (or other weird abilities that some people claim to possess). I can't see how it improves the survival or reproduction ability of humans.
</blockquote><div><br>On the contrary, anyone who had ESP would be like the only sighted man in the kingdom of the blind, and would enjoy enormous advantage. We should expect that such abilities would become at least as well developed as other senses through the process of evolutionary competition. We wouldn't be sitting around debating whether ESP exists because it would be completely obvious and commonplace. The fact that evolution does not seem to have taken this path should tell us something.
<br><br>Stathis Papaioannou<br></div></div><br>