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Subject: Mind and Brain
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Date: Fri, 27-Jul-84 09:22:00 EDT
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PSI research and Great Poetry are
marvelously parallel in at least two major ways:
I.  If one is born with certain talents,
    and trains them,
    one can, ocassionally, produce a new piece of Great Poetry.
    But it can't be expected on stage, on command.
II. If one is born with certain abilities,
    and trains them,
    one can, occasionally, produce a PSI event.
    But it can't be expected on stage, on command.

PSI research and Great Poetry are
marvelously orthogonal in at least two major ways:
I.  They are both mental activities, but poets get their
    product On Paper, for the whole world to see forever.
II. Many PSI researchers pretend that they are working
    on a Defined Science.
    Poets know that they are dealing in an Art.

*Neither* of these has been mathematically proven,
or caught in a test tube. I choose neither to Believe nor to Judge,
but to be Intrigued...
                                         D Iverson