Are extra-sensory perception and telepathy well-documented sciences?
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I don't think the tests that have been done proved anything more than luck. There's no solid proof that any of that exists as far as I know. \n\nMaybe your friend should subject himself to tests?
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i think, yes. a person's like or dislikes can also be explained psychologically, his feelings can be viewed through brain activity, heart beat rate, etc. science is very wide, almost all things can be explained through science. we just have to look for the right branch or study that deals with it.
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I belive if you are really close to someone sometimes (as corny as it sounds) you have similiar brain wave patterns and can tap into each other thoughts.  I had that experience a lot with my best friend.  It is eerie but very cool too!
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Yes, these things have been widely scientifically tested.\n\nOver a period of more than 20 years, the CIA and Pentagon spent approximately $20 million to study and employ numerous "psychics." They were supposed to help track down terrorists, find hostages, help anti-drug activities, etc. Experiments were conducted on precognition, clairvoyance, and remote viewing.\n\nThe "psychics" were accurate about 15% of the time when they were helping the CIA.   Fifteeen percent?  Is this supposed to convince us to pay them to help the United States government?  Utts says she thinks "they would be effective if used in conjunction with other intelligence." My intelligence tells me that 15% accuracy isn't much help no matter what it's used in conjunction with--that's an 85% failure rate! So 85% of the time, spies would be wasting their time and resources on incorrect information. We're supposed to be happy with that? And that's presuming she's right about the 15%.\n\nThe results have always been the same: psychic phenomena achieve the same results as random guesses.\n\nWhat that means is that they don't exist. People who call themselves psychics are either deluded and simply guessing, or more often they are charlatans like John Edward who try to take people's money by pretending to be psychic,
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Yes.\nReality, as we accept, exists within a perceptible spectrum/frequency range. We can measure many other wavelengths that go unnoticed by humans. In a way, it's like insects that see in the UV or IR wavelengths. Their "reality", in this sense, is much unlike our own.\nScience has only identified X% of spectrums and, considering the numerous anomalies that occur on a regular basis, there is no telling what happens or exists in these undiscovered frequencies.\nThen again, I'm just a computer scientist, not a physicist.
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No.\n\nNo one can "read" another person's mind in some sort of telepathic sense. There is no physical mechanism for carrying information from one brain to another in such a fashion. (And while there are certainly unknown phenomena, this one would have to impart essentially zero energy in order to remain undetected. Which means there is no energy to create an effect.)\n\nSometimes people, not just twins, can appear to answer each other's questions or guess what the other person is supposed to do. But this just comes from living with the person and knowing their behavior.\n\nStories of one twin knowing what happened to another 2,000 miles away are a combination of coincidence and urban legend.
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Being I've had them, I assume they are common. As far as "astral projections" are concerned, I can't imagine they could be verified in any rigorous or scientifically adept way...at least at this time. Have you read much about "remote viewing?" There has been some notable experiments carried out in this area for which I see some correlations.  Your last comment about the third moon of Saturn seems a bit "tongue 'n cheek" which makes me wonder if you're not a major skeptic. That's okay, 'cause I am too... I just try to keep an "open mind."  Entertaining any GUTS theory tends to have that effect on you.
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Yes you are correct about the unknown Indian bit!! I haven't heard about either him or the experiment, and I haven't found any one else that has, but I think my 'teleportation' gear is playing up a bit, I'll get it re-tuned and try again later!! I thought teleportation was a means of transferring physical matter almost instantly? Not brain waves!!\nAre you sure your brain waves haven't been transfered??
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Kyle, if you can figure this one out, you best write a very long book about it. Science has been working on this for a long time. Obviously, the cerebral cortex has something to do with it, but not all. Awareness, specificially self-awareness, is a slippery fish. I will not give you Wikipedia links, you probably already have them.\n\nRather, look up Julian Jaynes and his work on the Bicameral Mind. Early work but interesting. He thought that once upon a time the two halves of our brains were not very interconnected, that we received messages from the right half as mystical experiences, shamanic insight. The books he wrote are incredibly hard to read. \n\nI will see what else I can dig up for you. Great question. The work on this is ongoing.
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Possibly, FuschiaHoney. I my opinion, telepathy is a supernatural ability. Humans have a real connection to the supernatural, but what is beyond the created universe is physically unknowable to us since we cannot experience it with our senses. It is knowable through our intellect (our soul), but normally only through proof and analysis.\n\nHowever, the real existence of the supernatural is not dependent on us and all of our extensive analysis. It exists whether we want it to or not. And since humans do have a supernatural intellect (soul), I think that occasional revelations can occur that can allow our thoughts to be transferred through telepathy to another.\n\nNow, whether you can telepathically send your feelings of affection to this guy, probably not when you want to. It would more likely just happen without any effort on your part. So you may want to try a more proven method known as flirting. If you wink at him, smile at him, tantalizingly part your lips when he sees you, smile at him again, twirl your long locks, and look sufficiently coy, then I think he will get the message that you fancy him.\n\nGood luck, sweetie
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No one has ever scientifically proven telekinetic ability.  People who claim to have such ability fall into two categories: those who are demonstrated to be faking it, and those that won't allow themselves to be scientifically tested.\n\nThe James Randi Educational Foundation is one of the foremost organizations for investigation into paranormal claims like telekintic powers.  They've had a standing offer to pay $1 million to anyone who can prove they have such an ability for years and no one has successfully done so.
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I would say its because they know or somehow is aware of the situation/know the answer of the question. Anyway, its all about opinion, don't you think? Although, I believe about mental telepathy on twins.... or in my situation, it happens so often that my husband and I gets the same thoughts.
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Precognition.  Its not that rare.  Can't proven to be a ral occurance.  But could be.
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Sure. Where is your mind located? \n\nI know we can read electrical brainwave activity as well as use a variety of machines to detect chemical changes in the brain, but when you think a thought (such as a day at the beach) where is that image in your mind actually located?\n\nThe most recent scientific theories treat such notions as simply "ghosts in the machine", arguments that are secondary to the electro-chemical function of the brain. I disagree.\n\nThe only way to prove a thought exists is (currently) in the eye of the beholder. To everyone else (in spite of our machines) it does not exist.\n\nIf our everyday thoughts are non-locational, yet exist then we have a very personal and immediate proof of the non-location nature (matrix nature) of the universe.\n\nLife is a dream. Our bodies are an illusion, only our thoughts and awareness are real.
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We know that's true, mathematically.  Check into the newest physics research.  Amazing stuff, really, but be careful of some of the new age nonsense about science (not a comment on new age, more about attempts to use half-understood science to back up there own ideas, which is foolish for anyone).  I've experienced that for a fact, though this isn't proof of anything to you, nor do I expect it to be.  Remember, we aren't that far from infants, to whom everything is a dim reflection of reality, and slowly learn to distinguish differences between one thing and another.\nExperiments with kittens show that when raised in boxes with only horizontal lines, let out when older, they cannot see table and chair legs and run into them repeatedly. When raised in boxes with only vertical lines, they cannot or will not jump onto chair seats or tables.  Neither group outgrows it if kept in the box for too much of their childhood.\n\nWhat have we missed?  What stimuli have we denied to ourselves and our children such that as adults, even if it is right in front of us, we cannot see it?  I live everyday seeing the world differently because of my experiences as a child and it gives me such an advantage dealing with people.  I'm not "better", just aware of things most people don't yet notice.  And trying to tell them only makes them look at me funny, so I simply use the knowledge, and everyone benefits without understanding why.\n\nI wish I could just show you.  Until then, I'm raising my daughter to see things clearly, to understand herself and seek the truth above all things, to love unconditionally and to choose happiness rather than search for it.\n\nThen again, maybe half of it is regaining your innocence... .  Maybe I'll see you one day.  I'll miss you until then.
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I don't believe it's real.\nPeople who can seem to do such things are "reading" body language, vocal pitch inflections, etc.  They know people very well and tell a lot about them just by observing them.  HOWEVER, when it comes to things like "tell me what's on the card" and the like they fail to perform under scientific conditions.
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Telepathy, Telekinesis, Precognition, Mind Control, Astral Projection, Mind Transfer, Possession, Mental Blast (Psionic attack, mental bolts, whatever you want to call it), Empathy, Emotion Control, Animal Communication/Control, Illusions/Hallucinations\n\nX-Men at one point or another have used these powers, and probably some I haven't listed.