Re: Proof for the existence of telepathy (schizophrenia as neurosis)

From: Fabrizio J. Bonsignore (fbonsignore_at_beethoven.com)
Date: 10/21/04 

Date: 20 Oct 2004 18:46:21 -0700

jhelfand@umd.edu (Joe) wrote in message news:<e62610ea.0410151636.4429e770@posting.google.com>...
> Fabrizio,
>
> > Sure, I guess there will be a lot of opposition, as I wrote in another
> > post of this thread. Have you ever had that experience of turning
> > around because you thought you heard something, like your name? That
> > could be a telepathic experience.
>
> I've had weird experiences, but I don't think I'm telepathic. Do you
> think you're telepathic? I have to warn you, you may want to be
> careful what you say, or the white coats may come after you. Has
> anyone ever asked you if you "hear voices"?
>
Everybody must hear voices every so often. It is a matter of how
distracted you are or not, to distinguish between a random noise and
thinking there was a voice in that random noise, or hearing youself
thinking, or imagining if you have a vivid imagination (;)~. But you
would have to go with leaded feet. In order to assess if you heard a
voice or not, you should get information you would not be able to get
other way. That would be telepathy. Otherwise it is your own mind
generating voices.

> But the tests I was thinking about
> > have more to do with lots of psychiatrists comparing their notes about
> > clinical subjects, crossing them with some measure of `popularity` and
> > dunping the results into some kind of statistical model to see if the
> > correlation is meaningful.
>
> What correlation are you looking for?
>
Severe schizophrenics must have had a really busy social life. I guess
you would have to get some measure from sociometrics. Then you would
need a measure about the severity of an individual`s schizophrenia
(psichiatrists must have some measure, though even a learned guess
would suffice for some kinds of statistical models). Then I expect a
positive correlation. The more social life, the more sever the
schizophrenia.

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