Hi all,
Paul Brandon (I believe) 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.
And then Miguel Roig wrote:
>So, because the mechanism for a phenomenon cannot yet be accounted for, we
>should toss out any evidence of the phenomenon?
No. We cannot discount the "evidence" that *sometimes* there is a tiny,
but above-
chance, match between senders' messages and receivers' guesses. However, why,
in the absence of a theory that is compatible with physics, biology, and
psychology,
should such findings be considered evidence FOR psi any more than they are
considered evidence FOR sensory leakage, other confounds, wishful thinking,
etc.
You're presuming that the presence of above-chance matches means that psi is
responsible. That may be, but given the great difficulties in
accommodating psi into what
we know about the way the mind works, it is more parsimonious to consider that
the alternative explanations are more likely than are the paranormal ones.
-Mike
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