Gregg R Thomas

@Unseen – My A.I. returned this:

The experiment you’re describing sounds like a variant of a Galton board (also known as a Quincunx), which is a device invented by Sir Francis Galton to demonstrate the central limit theorem. In a Galton board, balls are dropped from the top and bounce through an array of pins, with the outcome forming a normal…[Read more]

I thought you could find anything on the internet, but I can’t find this.

I distinctly remember on one of NPR’s serious talk shows a discussion of psychokinesis, and they talk ended up centering on experiment that tended to suggest some such ability even if weak.

The experiment consisted of a glass-encased board with a square matrix of…[Read more]

I don’t know the name of it, unfortunately, but there was a sci fi novel or short story about a man who wanted to go back in time to “fix” something (the death of someone important to him) and while he succeeded in going back in time, no matter what he did or how he changed the antecedent circumstances, they would still die then somehow.

That…[Read more]

@strega – that way lies madness.  There are all kinds of things we could do recursively, but we don’t, because it’s too much effort.  To Babs, 12 hours and 2 miles away was like standing on top of a hill and looking around over the countryside.  Maybe the story was centred around me because I was there.

I don’t even think I could cope with a 2 minute clairvoyance talent, let alone a wide open future view.

10:00 – Sitting in my office, drinking coffee and dumbly gazing out the window, I see that at 10:02 a bird will smash into the window, scaring the crap out of me, causing me to spill my coffee all over my shirt.

10:01 – In order to avoid the p…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
I am skeptical. The multiverse is as elusive as god is so far.

I’m not talking about the multiverse.  I’m talking about the idea that the entire history of the universe, a 4-dimensional shape, was created simultaneously, in the Big Bang.  It’s not so far-fetched.  Subjectively, we experience a 3-dimensional world as we travel fo…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
all played out to the letter.

If Babs really was able to see twelve hours into the future, what would that tell us about the nature of space-time?  That from the point of view of the present, the future already exists.  After all, the future is a place as well as a time.

_Robert_ wrote:
A “friend of a friend” might know some things.

That’s true.  But this was before mobile phones, and none of us could confirm the prediction until I went home, when it had all played out to the letter.

Unseen wrote:
You’ve got it backward, Simon. Photons go into the eyes. They don’t shoot out of them.

Lol, the photons have to come out of a light source, bounce off something and go into your eyes.

Simon Paynton wrote:

Unseen wrote:
the mere act of observing some events (simply knowing about them, in other words) has some way of modifying them.

Surely observing requires photons to knock into and bounce off something, therefore, potentially modifying it.

You’ve got it backward, Simon. Photons go into the eyes. They don’t shoot out of them.

Unseen wrote:
the mere act of observing some events (simply knowing about them, in other words) has some way of modifying them.

Surely observing requires photons to knock into and bounce off something, therefore, potentially modifying it.

@ Simon

If anyone wants an area ripe for investigation by parapsychologists, it’s psychokinesis since it seems experimentally proven that the mere act of observing some events (simply knowing about them, in other words) has some way of modifying them. (Split Screen Experiment)

Unseen wrote:
If I ever had an astrological reading telling me that I would set aside my teenage leaning toward being an Episcopal clergyman in favor of becoming an atheist philosopher whose main interests were linguistic philosophy and the questions surrounding free will consciousness, I’d be impressed on one level,

Well, any given medium is o…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
went to college with someone who was completely unsuited to her course, and her chart says “you will do things that you are completely unsuited for”.  I have seen a number of other weirdly specific accuracies.

J.B. Rhine was a scientist with a specialty in researching parapsychology. One of the main critiques of his rese…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I made up a few generic paragraphs that sounded profound but very vague.

Yes, but being vague and general doesn’t prove anything.  Those things apply equally to everybody.

My college friend’s chart didn’t say “analytical scientist”, and mine didn’t say “totally unsuited to your occupation”.  They are very specific.

I once did Horrorscope readings for 5 different star signs. All were very keen to have it done by a professional 🙂

I made up a few generic paragraphs that sounded profound but very vague. “You are happy to work on a task on your own but also enjoy being part of a team when the task allows for your own skill sets to be called upon”.  I spoke…[Read more]

Here is one of the co-authors of Project 2025 discussing the plans.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
accurate.

I find Randi’s debunking unconvincing.  He’s chosen traits that everyone has or wants, and everyone wants to be Bluebeard the pirate.

Unseen wrote:
This is as good as any place to pass along a meme I made yesterday:

That’s a good meme.  I heard on World Service that Trump is trying to distance himself from it, maybe because it looks sinister.

The “conservative” (i.e., corrupt) commentator they had on said it was a success for them to politicise the judiciary as they have done.

I would call it a truism. You would have to be mad to think otherwise 🙂