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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.sci
Subject: Re: Professional Psychics (Re: how about *real* psi info?
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Date: Thu, 17-Jul-86 15:37:12 EDT
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In article <214@cci632.UUCP> rb@ccird1.UUCP (Rex Ballard) writes:
>
>The question here is not basic "cause effect" psychology, but spontaneous
>"random" thought.  When simply letting our minds drift, what causes two
>people to "drift to the same thought at the same point in time".

        My guess would be simply that people are genrally more similar
to each other than most of us like to believe, so they just naturally
think the same sorts of things in the same circumstances.
>
>Psychology can tell me why this thought is significant, where it might
>have originated from, possibly even what it means, but not why I thought
>it at that time.

        I disagree, I think psychology can even do the last mentioned
thing.
>
>Actually, I agree, psychology will eventually find the answer, and it
>will all make perfect sense.  But you have to study the phenomena to
>explain it.
>
        I agree, I have always believed that unusual situations need
to be studied. I just feel that the parapsychologist efforts at
proving that something inexplicable is happening is misdirected. A
better research topic is to tty and find the mechanism for an unusual
phenomenon. This is the approach taken by psychology, physics and
biology, and what makes them real sciences not pseudo-sciences. In the
past it has only been when a phenomenon has been taken out of the
context of PSI research and studied from the point of view of a
different field that adequate mechanisms have been found.
--

                                Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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