<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Oct 21, 2010, at 10:29 PM, Keith Henson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">The meta question is why people feel strongly that psi exists when it<br>is *so* marginal if it exists at all.<br></span></blockquote><br></div><div>I think its the same reason people get angry when their religious faith is questioned, some just find it very unpleasant to be in a state of doubt, and anger is less unpleasant than unhappiness so a substitution is made. However my theory could be completely wrong, but that's OK, I don't mind uncertainty.</div><div><br></div><div> John K Clark </div><br></body></html>