[ExI] Psi in a major science journal, J. Personality and Social Psychology

[Damien Broderick]

On 10/21/2010 11:26 AM, AlgaeNymph wrote:

>> Actually, this is just factually incorrect.  Me, personally, I have
>> read dozens of papers that try to analyze how it works.  They may not
>> be good explanations, but they are attempts, at least.

> Do you know of them, or where specifically I can find them?

Well, you could always read my book OUTSIDE THE GATES OF SCIENCE. Brief 
accounts of some attempted explanations there, plus references to some 
relevant papers.

I think there are two issues here:

If psi phenomena exist, how do they work? (Is it a side effect of 
Hawking's many histories, say, or quantum entanglement, or 9th 
dimensional magic from the post-Singularity mind at the center of the 
galaxy?)

If psi phenomena exist, what is their function in an evolved critter? 
This is easier to examine, because we can play the same Just So games as 
evolutionary theorists and even apply some algebra to the topic. One 
notion I suggest in the book is that psi might be used primarily during 
gestation, and later in parental bonding and protection, and the traces 
we see of it in later life are clumsy repurposed exaptations.

Damien Broderick