<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Ben, you just can't change superstitions. One study: the myths about certain psych subjects were measured at the start of a 101 class, and then addressed and contradicted throughout the semester. the myth measure was given again at the end of the semester. Same results. No effects of contractions. Sad. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 9, 2023 at 4:14 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 09/06/2023 01:41, Giulio Prisco wrote:<br>
> If humans have natural ESP abilities, good!<br>
<br>
If anyone turned out to have natural ESP abilities (I'm confident that <br>
won't happen), I think it would be far from good.<br>
<br>
It would basically mean that science is wrong, down to the fundamentals. <br>
That would not be good. Fortunately, it's so unlikely that we can safely <br>
discount it, I reckon.<br>
<br>
Ben<br>
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