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From: zdenek@heathcliff.columbia.edu (Zdenek Radouch)
Newsgroups: sci.physics
Subject: Re: Minor nit on psi experiment
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Date: Thu, 13-Nov-86 19:52:19 EST
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 In article <1090@mmm.UUCP> cipher@mmm.UUCP (Andre Guirard) writes:
 >
 >...And the other important point, which you cut out of your quoting from
 >the other article, is that if a subject can influence the outcome of a
 >_deterministic_ process then there's some funny business going on.  A
 >person who can do this should also be able to get the following program:
 >
 >	do forever {
 >	    print "1"
 >	}
 >
 >to print something other than "1".  Or an easier task, to get a
 >computer to crash just by concentrating at it.  This is easy to do by
 >just randomly changing memory locations, after all.

[the rest of the article full of PSI deleted]

Let me tell you something. I am not an open minded person.
I really do have problems with my digesting tract when I see the words
"PSI" and "research" right next to each other. This time it's not a joke.
Sorry to disappoint you.

zdenek

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