On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > It cannot happen, because if it happens you will say that it is no more > "parapsy". >
I most certainly will not say that! I'm not talking about finding evidence to explain how the paranormal works I'm talking about something more basic, finding evidence that there is something that needs explaining. So in that spirit let me offer you a little bet, if Science or Nature or Physical Review Letters reports evidence that telepathy or telekinesis or clairvoyance or remote-viewing exists before January 1 2016, and I don't care if they have a explanation for why this strange physical phenomenon exists or not, I will give you $1000, if they don't print anything like that you only have to give me $100. Come on it's easy money, OK maybe scientists aren't as smart as Joe Blow the bartender who does parapsychology research in his spare time but their bound to catch on eventually that it's real and I'm giving you 10 to 1 odds, so put your money where your mouth is. So do we have a bet? > A bit like when you say that intelligence is when it is done by human, > and is no more when done by machine (which makes the prediction of > intelligent machine virtually senseless. > I don't say that, the anti-AI/human-apologists do. > > Well perhaps you did not do that prediction for enough time). > Exactly 2 years ago somebody on this list said almost exactly the same thing, this is what I said back then: "Nothing gets their [physicists] blood moving like a experimental result they can't explain. If psi was real physicists would love it, if psi was real it would have been proven to everybody's satisfaction in the 17th century, if psi was real high school kids would be repeating the 300 year old experiments in their science fair projects, if psi was real I personally would love it too, in fact it's hard to imagine anyone not loving something as cool as psi. But unfortunately psi is not real. [...] you don't need a 10 billion dollar particle accelerator to investigate this stuff, if these simple easy experiments were valid then today the paranormal would not be controversial because its existence would have been proven to everyone's satisfaction way back in the time of Newton if not earlier." > > Hmm... I predict that you will not move to the step 4 of the UDA(*) > > (*) UDA = Universal Dovetailer Argument, in case you forgot. > Thank you I had forgotten, I was about to ask if the Universal Dance Association said that step 4 was a pirouette or a sissonne. > > I am not astonished. Only the pseudo-religious people can't doubt their > own conviction > Wow, calling a guy known for disliking religion religious, never heard that one before, at least I never heard it before I was 12. > I think you are bigot atheists > And happy new year to you too. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
