Feeling the Future: Experimental Evidence for Anomalous Retroactive Influences on Cognition & Affect
I guess you all heard the hoopla about Professor Darryl Bem at Cornell getting his ESP experiments into a peer-reviewed journal. Not even close to crackpot in his other work, he has demonstrated that some psychological tests work backwards, as if the subjects had fore-knowledge of the next events in the experiment.
http://www.dbem.ws/FeelingFuture.pdf
Peter Watts, the author about whom I've posted a few opinions, took it up, and I enjoyed his dissection, even more than usual because he is a hard-science die-hard, bitter and stringent skeptic of anything not practical and provable. It's wonderfully reasonable and suspending of judgment given the data will need confirmation via repeat experiments by other reputable researchers.
http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=1793#comments
Like Dr. Watts, I have no thought psionic powers exist, but I think if Professor Bem's experiments are replicated, we are going to have to rethink certain aspects of physics or psychology or "paranormal" events, or all three.
I suspect some of Bem's phenomena are real, and not evidence of mysterious powers of certain special individuals, but a fact of physics that is not usually manifest about cause and effect and time. That Watts gives a nod to this idea delighted me.
http://www.dbem.ws/FeelingFuture.pdf
Peter Watts, the author about whom I've posted a few opinions, took it up, and I enjoyed his dissection, even more than usual because he is a hard-science die-hard, bitter and stringent skeptic of anything not practical and provable. It's wonderfully reasonable and suspending of judgment given the data will need confirmation via repeat experiments by other reputable researchers.
http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=1793#comments
Like Dr. Watts, I have no thought psionic powers exist, but I think if Professor Bem's experiments are replicated, we are going to have to rethink certain aspects of physics or psychology or "paranormal" events, or all three.
I suspect some of Bem's phenomena are real, and not evidence of mysterious powers of certain special individuals, but a fact of physics that is not usually manifest about cause and effect and time. That Watts gives a nod to this idea delighted me.