Re: Possibility of telepathy information theory (theory of)

From: Les Cargill (lcargill_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 11/06/04 

Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 04:50:00 GMT

mike3 wrote:

> "robert j. kolker" <nowhere@nowhere.net> wrote in message
> news:2v2girF2fu9glU1@uni-berlin.de...
>
>>
>>Fabrizio J. Bonsignore wrote:
>>
>>>Telepathy has been considered one of the phenomena for which science
>>>can offer no explanation, and which therefore is relegated to the
>>>category of superstition,
>>
>>And for good reason. No one has ever proven there is such a phenomenon.
>>
>>Bob Kolker
>>
>
>
> And if it does exist, and somebody tries to prove it, they'll be blasted
> into oblivion. No wonder no-one has, 'cause they aren't ALLOWED to!!!!!!!
>
> What if some top scientists decided to conduct in-depth research into the
> phenomenon to once and for all prove/disprove it's existence and settle
> the matter? Essentially you are saying that if something isn't proven then
> it
> can't be researched -- but science is about attempting to find proof or
> disproof of something. That's not advancement -- that's stonewalling.
>
>

(Gad, this thing is crossposted to hell and back, but...)

The problem is that there is no possible communications medium
for these signals to be written on. It sorta points back to
the Luminiferous Aether, which was embarassingly deprecated
in what, 1930? 1906? (too lazy to look it up) by Michelson/Morley.

There was a historical move to prove the Great Beyond,
beginning about the time when people missed those lost in
the Civil War (dunno why Europe followed),
which is still sorta with us. All attempts to measure it or
exploit it resolve to embarassment for the participants.

Since the Universe has a sense of humor, we cannot
categorically prove a negative. So any hypothesis
founded on A Miraculous Finding is doomed in
resonable discussion, unless you show lab measurements
hinting to the immeasurable. *Dis*proof is an
infite series of windmills, barring contradiction of
something relativelty non-fundamental. We have remarkably
good and comprehensive fundamentals.

Rail as you will, the skepctics won. 

--
Les Cargill

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