Parapsychology and psi

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Discussion of parapsychology, the science that investigates psi phenomena.

Psi refers to things like extrasensory perception, telepathy, precognition, and psychokinesis.

Scientific investigation refers to things like double-blind randomised trials.

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Daryl Bem's 2011 paper on presentiment (lemmy.ml)

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In 2011, Daryl Bem published 'Feeling the future: Experimental evidence for anomalous retroactive influences on cognition and affect' (DOI: 10.1037/a0021524). PDF

Presentiment is a feeling that anticipates the future. When you show someone an erotic picture, their skin-conductance goes up more than if you show them a bland picture. In a presentiment study, they are shown random pictures, and it's found that their skin-conductance goes up a moment before the erotic picture appears. Feeling the Future.

Here is a 2022 replication study (negative finding): https://www.kog.psy.unibe.ch/unibe/portal/fak_humanwis/philhum_institute/inst_psych/psy_kog/content/e48297/e48316/e702309/e756838/files1310124/MuhmenthalerDubravacMeier_PoC2022_ger.pdf

And a 2012 replication study (negative finding): https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/6117654.pdf

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