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Friday, November 12, 2010

An example of Precognition

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19712-evidence-that-we-can-see-the-future-to-be-published.html

As always, the prediction is maddeningly vague on crucial details like when it will be published.

11 comments:

  1. I knew you were going to post this.

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  2. like when it will be published.

    Heisenberg's uncertainty publishing,

    you cannot know both that it will be published and when.

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  3. Experiment 1: Precognitive Detection of Erotic Stimuli

    You know, I could use some research into this area.

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  4. Sounds like fish is experienced with the vagaries of academic journals.

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  5. From Bem's paper:
    40 of the sessions comprised 12 trials using erotic pictures,
    ...using stronger and more explicit images from Internet sites for the men. We also provided two additional sets of erotic pictures so that men could choose the option of seeing male-male erotic images and women could choose the option of seeing female-female erotic images.


    It does not require precognition to see the kind of hostile publicity he's going to receive when the rightwing culture warriors find out about his methods.

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  6. It may turn out that all your inappropriate boners were instead precognitive boners and you just DIDN'T CLUE IN.

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  7. They even have the tools to convince a grand jury that even if you didn't do anything, you're still a fucking perv and need to be incarcerated...

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  8. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penile_plethysmograph

    It is hardly my fault if I am turned on by having pressure gauges or inflatable cuffs placed around my penis.
    It is in fact the Frau Doktorin's fault, but you don't want to hear that story.

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