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Author Topic:   What do you think of the evidence for psychic abilities?
1.61803
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Message 33 of 37 (817384)
08-17-2017 10:14 AM


Life is stranger than fiction
What if there is a yet to be discovered explanation for what seems to be ESP?
Before you all go rolling your eyes:
Top gun pilots are able to make microsecond adjustments at mach speeds to avoid death.
Is it possible for the brain to somehow have access to events microseconds before the event happens?
There are physics experiments that show that events can happen before causes.
Many things that humans thought were supernatural have been shown to have a scientific explanation. Perhaps someday ESP will too. (if it does exist)
quote:
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."~Arthur C. Clarke
quote:
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. ~Shakespeare
Edited by 1.61803, : redundant word removed.

"You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative" William S. Burroughs

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1.61803
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Message 35 of 37 (817402)
08-17-2017 11:29 AM
Reply to: Message 34 by Taq
08-17-2017 10:39 AM


Re: Life is stranger than fiction
Taq writes:
Hours of training seems like a much more likely explanation for those fast reflexes.
Indeed.
I do not dispute that training and muscle memory can influence a positive outcome hence why they are trained. But many of the best of the best have been described as having "The edge".
This edge seems uncanny,surreal, unexplainable. They are routinely making the right millisecond decision every time. But this is not limited to just Top gun pilots, other everyday people have invoked this ability in moments of life or death millisecond decisions. The pilots do this routinely, but how many untold times do ordinary people do this? Yes a broken clock is right twice a day and eventually people will get "lucky". But that is not what I am talking about. What we call luck may at times be some yet unexplained tapping into immediate future events and making adjustments. This ability may even be genetic in that some people are able to do this and other are not.
Again I am not claiming this is what is happening but I am not ruling out the possibility either.
https://www.newscientist.com/...e-that-we-can-see-the-future
Study showing that humans have some psychic powers caps Daryl Bem's career | Cornell Chronicle
Future Influence: The Quantum Physics Of Precognition Or Pseudoscience? | Science 2.0
http://www.csicop.org/...psychology_experiments_published_by
Edited by 1.61803, : adding a counter point link 2013.

"You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative" William S. Burroughs

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1.61803
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Message 37 of 37 (817406)
08-17-2017 11:52 AM
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08-17-2017 11:43 AM


Re: Life is stranger than fiction
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....paranormal explanations, at least in my opinion.
In my opinion as well. My point was that perhaps someday it will not be considered paranormal.

"You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative" William S. Burroughs

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