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<blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5425274" data-attributes="member: 8835"><p>there's a whole lot of things that could explain ESP.</p><p></p><p>It could be that the brain acts as a control rig for our essences that float in some quantum space dimension, as such, some times we can peak outside of our control rig</p><p></p><p>It could be that the brain sometimes picks up interference that happens to reveal information we couldn't directly know through the physical senses</p><p></p><p>it could be that the 90% of our brain that we don't use, is in fact being used.</p><p></p><p>I know this much:</p><p>magicians can do ESP acts that are convincing. Assuming that it was not actually ESP, we know people can fake it (how is of cource a magicians secret).</p><p></p><p>People who honestly puport to have psychic abilities do not have access to precise, instant or controllable information. They are often described as "intuitive" which basically means they are subconciously deducing things, effectively guessing really well. But they are not 100% accurate, or even getting "obvious" images.</p><p></p><p>So, we don't have any documented telepaths who can be reliably tested, thereby proving ESP.</p><p></p><p>ESP falls into the realm of wierd science. Stuff that somebody's seen, but can't reproduce. Enough people have seen it to believe it, but there's not been solid cases to prove it with the scientific method.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Janx, post: 5425274, member: 8835"] there's a whole lot of things that could explain ESP. It could be that the brain acts as a control rig for our essences that float in some quantum space dimension, as such, some times we can peak outside of our control rig It could be that the brain sometimes picks up interference that happens to reveal information we couldn't directly know through the physical senses it could be that the 90% of our brain that we don't use, is in fact being used. I know this much: magicians can do ESP acts that are convincing. Assuming that it was not actually ESP, we know people can fake it (how is of cource a magicians secret). People who honestly puport to have psychic abilities do not have access to precise, instant or controllable information. They are often described as "intuitive" which basically means they are subconciously deducing things, effectively guessing really well. But they are not 100% accurate, or even getting "obvious" images. So, we don't have any documented telepaths who can be reliably tested, thereby proving ESP. ESP falls into the realm of wierd science. Stuff that somebody's seen, but can't reproduce. Enough people have seen it to believe it, but there's not been solid cases to prove it with the scientific method. [/QUOTE]
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