The Paranormal (Where is it now?)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 22:11 (5545 days ago) @ dhw

Some quick responses to DHW's replies. - DHW: I am interested above all in cases in which unknowable information has been imparted ... /// (there are many such cases, and not just "a few" as you claim). - GPJ: I still maintain that there are only a very few that apparently involve genuinely unknowable information. These require further investigation. Most others are easily explained in known terms.
 
DHW: Most of the findings of psychologists are based on case histories. - GPJ: I think you mean psychiatry. Modern psychology is far more systematic. - DHW: ... if you can point me in a direction where I might find what you consider to be a reliable scientific explanation of the nature of love, the impact of music or the origin of ideas, I will be most grateful. - GPJ: See the separate thread I have opened on this subject. - DHW: We have not been discussing the atomic theory of chemical structure. We have been discussing the existence of God, the paranormal, ethics, aesthetics, religion, evolution etc. - GPJ: All these subjects depend on a knowledge of chemistry because life and the functioning of brains depends on chemistry. - DHW: However, if you believe that human realities are sourced by energy independently of matter...well, that would really take us onto another level. - GPJ: Matter is a special form of energy. E = m.c^2. Energy is the more basic concept. Of course I am referring here to the measurable energy defined by physicists, not the imaginary "energy" or "chi" referred to by new ageists.

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GPJ