Haha…
You ended up exactly where I was expecting. But thks for going through that struggle for us;
- Finding anything of detail online is damn near impossible. This is true concerning every endeavor including detailed physics.
- Even if you found the exact hand written notes (as I have on occasion), there are always questions concerning relevant details that are not noted. Thus there is still room for rational doubt.
Almost anything you hear that science has been touted as saying “has been proven” (especially statistically) is far more related to current politics than true Science. Almost anything you hear that seems fascinating is merely that, “fascination”, not true Science.
But ESP is a special field that requires truly expert analysis far beyond that of common Science. ESP involves what has been called the “ethereal plane” or field and is actually what I call the “field of relevant affectance” (from Rational Metaphysics and I just realized that I should write a thesis on that subject).
All life really is connected in a way related to what in physics is called “Entanglement”. Entanglement is when two particles are formed in such a way that they exactly reflect each other until either is treated differently. A fundamental concept in all thought is the
Equivalency Equation;
Equal Setting + Equal Treatment ==> Equal Result
All thought and indeed all life is assembled in an entangled situation. All thought by all people is formed by conceptualizing relevance. This can be perceived (and often is) in their language. And social engineers attempting to use language to alter society are very aware of that connection. And all life considers relevance as that which has affect upon its survival (else it isn’t “alive”).
Due to this entanglement at the very foundation of all life, similar strategies form from the efforts of every life. Specialties form such as to add confusing factors, but on a higher conceptual level, whether an engineer or a secretary, everyone is using problem solving algorithms to handle their situation. If anyone is perceptive to these strategies/algorithms, they can predict what life on another world will do without needing to know details or specifics. It is a case of sensing trends formed by priorities. That “field of relevant affectance” (being affected by similar things and working out similar strategies) is the “ethereal plane of reality”.
Thus when 2 people are used in these experiments, a sender and a receiver, there really is an entanglement connection between them that has no direct physical association, but rather strictly mental. But sensing that level of mental strategizing to the point of being able to predict specific actions is sensitive business. I have quite a bit of direct experience in such regards and even with me, if I think anyone is testing me or watching, I cannot perform and often do the opposite of what I want.
So when a machine is used in place of one of the people, a significant and very relevant factor is removed. The receiver must now predict strategies concerning the make of the machine and how it is being used. That one is tough and is a whole different ball of wax. So I would expect a serious change when they went to “autoganzfeld” experiments.
But such a change doesn’t invalidate the original hypothesis. It in fact constitutes an entirely new hypothesis concerning the entanglement of man-made devices and life. Once those devices become sophisticated enough to be self-learning and strategizing, the entanglement phenomena will return.
So the ESP investigator is actually doing something very relevant and important. He just has no clue what he is looking at or trying to analyze. Thus we get complete non-sense at times being reported as “Science”. But the endeavor actually is legitimate Science once they get their act together (IF). Their reports are the beginnings of the effort to finally see what is going on and they find occasional associations that even they don’t know how to screw up.