(February 7, 2014 at 11:13 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote:(February 7, 2014 at 11:08 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: What about maternal instinct? When a mother has a "gut feeling" that something is wrong with her child or her child is in some kind of trouble, and it proves to be a valid intuition? You don't think that ever happens?
Why do you think a mother is less likely to recognize patterns of behavior in her offspring than psychically intuit illness?
It seems we're arguing the same thing, the only difference being the connotative worldview of the terminology used.
I'm speaking of instances when a parent has that instinct but isn't in any position to be privy to the knowledge of any immediate danger facing the child, say, because they're separated by distance. This could be like a type of telepathy. I dated a woman once who on many occasions, when her children would lose something, she could find it by focusing on the item in her head and then let the "energy" guide her to it. Apparently, it worked many times. Her children, who were full grown when I knew her, could back it up. I'm not saying that proves anything or suggests psychic ability is legit, I'm just asking if we should discount all such instances if there isn't a scientific method for verifying it. Is that justified?
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