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From: prs@oliveb.UUCP (Phil Stephens)
Newsgroups: sci.physics
Subject: Re: ESP as evolutionary disadvantage (was: none)
Message-ID: <115@oliveb.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 14-Oct-86 17:09:28 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 14 17:09:28 1986
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Reply-To: prs@oliven.UUCP (Philip Stephens)
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I'll keep this short, getting ready to go to England for a few weeks...

In article <2556@ihlpg.UUCP> tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum) writes:
>Of course, "psychic" power alone knows no biological limits!

You think it's a fantasy, and fantasy has no biological limits.  Please
open your mind to some of the more moderate views on this subject; "if"
psi does exist, it "probably" *does* have biological limits.

I think you have what Casteneda called a "need to believe" that *all* psi
claims are fraudulant or deluded.  Some are, but not all.  Both the pro
and con sides of argument (myself included) tend to have a "need to believe"
clouding their judgement of others' arguments and claims, but one can make
an effort to set that prejudice aside.  I make the effort, but I'm not 
sure you know that you have such blinders on.

Which is why this topic is so appropriate on net.physics or some close
relative such as sci.misc (feel free to spin off *that* topic, too, but
I won't have time to reply...)

	- Phil		prs@oliven.UUCP (Phil Stephens)     or: prs@oliveb.UUCP 
	or:			{get to 'nike' somehow, then}!oliveb!prs 
				{I *think* this will work everywhere}