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The futility of hardcore psi skepticism

Columnist: Brendan D. Murphy

Started by UM-Bot , Dec 14 2012 04:39 PM

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#1 UM-Bot

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Posted 14 December 2012 - 04:39 PM

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Brendan D. Murphy: To explain the visual input we receive and the resultant images we construct and perceive, we have to acknowledge that the brain is hardwired to decode energy waves and their frequencies/vibrations. Where the major differences in belief, perception, and, consequently, awareness come in is that the brain is not passive in decoding the wave input. It edits and rewrites information constantly.

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Posted 15 December 2012 - 11:43 PM

Awesome artical!

What havn't any of our hard-core sceptics left a comment? :whistle:

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Posted 16 December 2012 - 03:21 PM

An excellent article! :yes:

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Posted 18 December 2012 - 03:02 PM

that was pretty intense

" I imagine that the intellegent people are the ones so intellegent that they dont even need or want to look "intellegent" anymore".
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Posted 24 December 2012 - 07:56 PM

Very interesting. This article gave me a lot to think about.

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Posted 26 December 2012 - 02:58 PM

Professor T, on 15 December 2012 - 11:43 PM, said:

Awesome artical!

What havn't any of our hard-core sceptics left a comment? :whistle:

Because there's not much to respond to. The whole thing is a massive case of special pleading, non-sequiturs and useless references. Yes, the brain does weird stuff, we know this. This doesn't mean that "psi" is in any way true. He's missing the point that we can measure and quantify the weird stuff that the brain does, and yet we can't measure anything "psi" related. Because it doesn't exist.

Oh, and his references are singularly useless. He mentions that "60% of 10 year old could read with their ears", and then cites a publication about "psychic evolution". Not good enough, sorry.

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