redwolf
Sorry Old Man but Sheldrakes' studies have yet to be repeated by others to establish a better level of credibility and there is still no clear explanation for a mechanism and a study to determine if such a mechanism even exists.The jury is definitely still out on this especially in light of the number of "promising" studies over the years that turned out to be bogus.
AS for the parrot here is an excerpt. See if you can spot the problem inherent in the test.
At the beginning of each trial, Aime opened a numbered sealed envelope containing a photograph, and then looked at it for two minutes. "These photographs corresponded to a prespecified list of key words in N'kisi's vocabulary," and were selected and randomized in advance by a third party. We conducted a total of 149 two-minute trials. The recordings of N'kisi during these trials were transcribed blind by three independent transcribers. Their transcripts were generally in good agreement. Using a majority scoring method, in which at least two of the three transcribers were in agreement, N'kisi said one or more of the key words in 71 trials. He scored 23 hits:
Hint: It is within the quotation marks I have inserted.
"We cannot define anything precisely! If we attempt to, we get into that paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers, who sit opposite each other, one saying to the other, 'You don't know what you are talking about!' The second one says 'What do you mean by know? What do you mean by talking? What do you mean by you?', and so on."
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