I see that the majority way of thinking of people is the dismissive kind. Tell them "there is telepathy" and they will say "no there isn't!". The problem with this attitude is that it is end of story. How do this people that dismiss everything expect progress to be made ? They say: "Let the scientists prove telepathy!", put if a scientist tries to actually do an experiment, they come and say again: "Stop doing the experiment, telepathy doesn't exist!". So how is progress to be made if they create an infinite loop of denial? Very few people (including myself) take the constructive attitude: "Ok, here is an interesting phenomenon. How it might work?".
Why do people waste their lives playing the "smart skeptic" card dismissing everything instead of actually doing something about trying to find an explanation ? How is an explanation to be found if they reject from the very start the phenomenon ? They say: "Oh, but we are not rejecting it, we are actually encourage scientists to prove it!". Ok, but how are scientists to prove it, if a theoretical framework is not laid down first ? In order to actually build an experiment, you need to know what you want to experiment with in the first place. But if you reject from the very start any attempt at hypothesis formulation, how is the experiment to be designed ? -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/58464d31-463a-4201-ad9b-790735e165ab%40googlegroups.com.
