Nobody is forcing anyone into this discussion. Sometimes recycled topics
provide a chance for new perspectives--even though most of it might be the same
old arguments.
Conversations work this way in the real world as well. It would be rather rude
to tell a friend, "Hey, we talked about this two
Hi
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Miguel Roig wrote:
> While I am not as certain about psi as John's statement appears
> to imply, I continue to believe that the evidence, in spite of
> its flaws, shows a weak anomalous effect that I interpret as a
> manifestation of psi. I, therefore, support the gist o
FYI...
>Science
>Volume 287, Number 5454 Issue of 4 Feb 2000, p 791
>http://intl.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/287/5454/791
>
>NEUROSCIENCE:
>Cold Numbers Unmake the Quantum Mind
>Charles Seife
>Calculations show that collapsing wave functions of tiny structures in the
>brain can't explain t
Yes, Miguel, deja vu all over again ;-)
While I am not as certain about psi as John's statement appears to imply, I
continue to believe that the evidence, in spite of its flaws, shows a weak
anomalous effect that I interpret as a manifestation of psi. I, therefore,
support the gist of John's
Let's say that _verbal reports_ of anomalous phenomena occur.
Identifying the antecedents of these reports is a valid scientific challenge.
At 11:20 PM -0500 2/19/00, Ballard, John wrote:
>Stephen Black wrote:
>
>>I'd say that the biggest challenge is keeping the pseudoscience out of
>psychology.
At 07:27 AM 2/20/00 -0500, John Ballard wrote:
>Anomalous psychological phenomena, such as clairvoyance and precognition, occur.
To which Mike Scoles responded:
>Can you point all of us blind folks in the direction of healthy evidence for
>these "anomalous psychological phenomena?"
And Nancy
On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Michael Sylvester wrote:
> while on this, did MTO [Martin Orne] coined the term "hidden
observer"?
No, it was Ernest Hilgard. Although I don't recall anything specific,
I imagine Orne would not accepted such a construct. Here's
a description from "What is hypnosis" at
ht
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Stephen Black went:
> The evidence for serotonin in slow-wave sleep led to attempts to
> increase cerebral serotonin to induce sleep. Serotonin doesn't cross
> the blood-brain barrier but its precursor, l-tryptophan, does. The
> hope was that tryptophan might act as a natural
On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Jean Edwards wrote:
> while
> reading an article on sleep and dreams in the Annual Editions of
> Psychology (00/01), the author states that during sleep, the brain
> is "soaked in acetylcholine, which seems to stimulate nerve cells
> while it strips muscles of tone and tensi
> Stephen Black wrote:
>
> >I'd say that the biggest challenge is keeping the pseudoscience out of
> psychology
except that I'm happy to accept Jim Clark's emendation
that it's _removing_ the pseudoscience as well as keeping it out
that's important
Then on Sat, 19 Feb 2000, John Ballard wrote
First of all I want to thank you for your sage advice in dealing with my
trouble student. You advice mirrored that of some of my psychology colleagues,
who suggested that I get this young lady to our counseling center by any means
necessary. She has been a thorn in several other instructors' si
Dear Martin,
Maybe rape was an evolutionarily sensible strategy, maybe it isn't. Who
really knows?
As a psychologist who knows something about the brain and evolution, I can
say with some confidence that there is no reason to believe that men are
somehow more naturally morally impaired than
Listers,
I would like to join my colleagues in requesting evidence from Mr. Ballard
for the anomolous paranormal events he describes occurring under controlled
conditions.
I would also like to know the basis for his criticism of CSICOP (other than
the fact that when someone tells them of a pa
John Ballard wrote:
> I'd argue that the biggest challenge is not "throwing the
> baby out with the bathwater". Anomalous psychological phenomena, such as
> clairvoyance and precognition, occur. The pursuit of knowledge is not
vested
> in the blind skepticism of CSICOP but rather in the healthy sk
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