At 04:11 PM 9/17/00 -0500, you wrote:
>The violation occurs in the fact that no one has been able to identify any
>physical radiation of any known energy source during brain activity that
>can be detected beyond the skull.
So, because the mechanism for a phenomenon cannot yet be accounted for, we
should toss out any evidence of the phenomenon?
>Further, psi signals (unlike anything
>known to physics) do not seem to obey the inverse square law (they do not
>degrade as a function of distance).
In a pretty good, but now somewhat dated book on parapsychology, Edge, Morris,
Palmer, & Rush (1986) point out a nice argument against the incompatability of
psi with the inverse-square law. These authors write: "Hoffman (1940) noted,
the inverse-quare decline aplies ot the power of the carrier wave, but ESP
scores would depend upon the _intelligibility_ of the information. Radio
reception is a familiar analogy: speech remains fully understandable over a
wide range of distances. Further, the inverse-square law rearely applies in a
practical situation, because of reflection, refraction, scattering and other
effects, including intentional beaming. Spacecraft have transmitted picture
signals over nearly a billion miles with power of only a few watts becasue the
energy was concentrated in a narrow beam to earth"
The reference for the book is:
Edge, H. L, Morris, R. L., Palmer, J., & Rush, J. H. (1986). Foundations of
parapsychology: Exploring the boundaires of human capability. Boston, MA:
Routledge.
The reference for Hoffman is:
Hoffman, B. (1940). ESP and the inverse-square law. Journal of
Parapsychology, 4, 149-152.
>You can find more detailed analyses at <http://www.csicop.org/si/>.
In the absence of a more specific reference, I am sure one can find arguments
against some of those detailed analyses in the various parapschological
journals. See http://www.rhine.org/
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