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From: james@denelcor.UUCP (James Torson)
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Subject: Re: article in net.general (concerning ESP)
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Date: Sat, 3-Nov-84 12:57:02 EST
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Anyone who is interested in the question of whether there is real 
evidence for ESP and whether it is worthy of investigation should
read "The Persistent Paradox of Psychic Phenomena: An Engineering
Perspective" by Robert G. Jahn (Dean of the School of Engineering/
Applied Science, Princeton Univ.), Proc. of the IEEE, Vol. 70,
No. 2 (Feb, 1982), pp. 136-170.  The abstract states (in part):
	"... Over recent years, a sizeable spectrum of evidence
	has been brought forth from reputable laboratories in
	several desciplines to suggest that at times human
	consciousness can acquire information inaccessible by 
	any known physical mechanism (ESP), and can influence 
	the behavior of physical systems or processes (PK), but
	even the most rigorous and sophisticated of these studies
	display a characteristic dilemma: The experimental results
	are rarely replicable in the strict scientific sense, but
	the anomalous yields are well beyond chance expectations
	and a number of common features thread through the broad 
	range of reported effects. ..."
By the way, the author is using a computer in the study of these
phenomena.
				Jim Torson  
				Denelcor, Inc., Aurora, CO
				denelcor!james