RE: Psychic prediction of mass graves turns out false
July 8, 2011 at 9:48 am
(This post was last modified: July 8, 2011 at 10:11 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Your objection has been noted. They do not, however, have to explain the effect to collect their winnings. Case in point, this objection is actually noted and dealt with in the docementation. For a thing to be "supernatural" for the purposes of the challenge, it need only be beyond the experience or area of our current scientific understanding. One could indeed collect their winnings due to a scientific breakthrough encouraged by this very challenge.
So...yeeeeer outta here!
By the way, it should be easy to find proof of "something that collects memories....while the brain isn't functioning"
Lets just cut off someones head, read a few passages from a book, and then ask the head to remember what was read. Collecting and storing memories from inputs ARE functions of the brain. If the brain is not functioning, it's not collecting memories or inputs. That some sort of "self" could exist independently of the brain would be interesting indeed given the curious tendency for one's "self" to cease existing when the brain ceases to function. Don't let my objections discourage you from designing a test for your proposition, of course. I could always be wrong, it's happened before.
So...yeeeeer outta here!
By the way, it should be easy to find proof of "something that collects memories....while the brain isn't functioning"
Lets just cut off someones head, read a few passages from a book, and then ask the head to remember what was read. Collecting and storing memories from inputs ARE functions of the brain. If the brain is not functioning, it's not collecting memories or inputs. That some sort of "self" could exist independently of the brain would be interesting indeed given the curious tendency for one's "self" to cease existing when the brain ceases to function. Don't let my objections discourage you from designing a test for your proposition, of course. I could always be wrong, it's happened before.
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