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From: hadeishi@husc4.harvard.edu (mitsuharu hadeishi)
Newsgroups: sci.physics
Subject: Re: Mind Reading
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Date: Fri, 17-Oct-86 17:09:52 EDT
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Summary: Responses and Apologies

In article <2577@ihlpg.UUCP> tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum) writes:
>> > [Greg]
>> >It's very easy to take all of the experiences in your life, select the
>> >coincidences, and then declare that they are more than coincidences.  It's also
>> >easy to edit your own memory to have it fit your preconceived notions of the
>> >world.  Recollections of dreams and feeling are especially easy to change.
>----
>> [Mitsu] 
>> 	You are becoming rather offensive here, Greg.
>------
>How is Greg's stating the obvious offensive to you, Mitsu.  Greg's
>example with the 1's and 0's in the random number generator is entirely
>appropriate to your case.  Or did you not understand it.

	Excuse me for continuing this discussion here, but I did so
because this was the original newsgroup in which the topic of mind
reading or telepathy arose.  I did not choose to put this topic here.
I simply was interested in posting my personal viewpoint, from actual
experience.

	Of course, Bill, I understood Greg's argument.  My point was
that this is such an obvious argument that it might have occurred to
Greg that I had thought of it already, and had discounted it after
some rather convincing experiences came down the line.

	I hold further that the things which have happened to me
have happened to other people, and that they are certainly not just
a series of carefully chosen coincidences.  I didn't spend each day
going over with my friend every experience of each minute of every
day, looking for coincidences of this type; these events "jumped out
at us" as it were.  I don't always get "blasts of ecstasy" and so forth.
From this point of view Greg's analysis breaks down.

			-Mitsu