[ExI] A paranormal prediction for the next year

[Tomaz Kristan]

Will, you are off. Way off.


On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Will Steinberg <steinberg.will at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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!
>
> 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.
>
> So I will counter your nebulous statement with one I hope is slightly less:
>
> Eventually--maybe not this year, but almost certainly--a hitherto unknown
> or unexplored ability of the human mind will find mainstream scientific
> attention.
>
> And it won't be called psi.
>
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