I do think this is a bit of a pointless post. I could imagine the human mind being versatile enough to glean enough information from body language, facial movement, speech patterns and content, etc. to effectively "read a mind" by *somebody's* standards. Of course, the second something like this is found out to be possible then we have a factual basis for it, and it is no longer psi-like. Your post really amounts to saying "An untestable, unexplainable human mental phenomenon will not have a paper on it published in a leading science journal"--but of course that is not the sort of thing that would be published in one of those journals!<br>
<br>Maybe you mean to say that we won't discover some electromagnetic doodaddy weirdness in our brains. But I think if you told people of the past that we could put you in a magnet machine and see what you we're thinking, they might be a little bit incredulous. So then perhaps you mean to say that we won't discover human mental faculties that are unexplainable by physics as it is known to humanity up to 2012. But I have a sneaking suspicion that we have a bit of a way to go in understanding physics.<br>
<br>So I will counter your nebulous statement with one I hope is slightly less:<br><br>Eventually--maybe not this year, but almost certainly--a hitherto unknown or unexplored ability of the human mind will find mainstream scientific attention. <br>
<br><div>And it won't be called psi.</div>