From: michael k teehan (miketeehan@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Fri Dec 19 1997 - 17:41:08 MST
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> From: Wings of the Morning <nectar@landmarknet.net>
> To: extropians@extropy.com
> Subject: Re: look out! long-haired gun loon! | natural balances
> Date: Friday, December 19, 1997 1:44 PM
>
>
>
> mark@unicorn.com wrote:
>
> > nectar@landmarknet.net wrote:
> > >So tell me what does this mean? Probability? Was this bound to happen?
> >
> > How many times have you had these feelings and they've been wrong? I
know
> > in my case the answer is 'lots'. And how do you know that you ever had
> > those feelings and they aren't just false memories created after the
> > fact? Did you write anything down at the time?
> >
> > Personally I think our brains go wrong far, far more often than most of
> > us realise, and that explains an awful lot of 'psychic' experiences...
> > and why they can't be reproduced in a laboratory.
>
> >
>
> Obviously it's natural to have those types of feelings and be wrong.
Of
> course it happens more than not. But when instance after instance occur,
I
> tend to wonder. And of course I can't prove to you they are false
memories
> that happened after fact, I can only tell you honestly, that was my
> experience; that's what happened. I'm not going to forget the events
that
> happened in an instance like that. On the contrary I remember them quite
> clearly. No I didn't right anything down at the time, but when I first
had
> that "vision" of the yellow rider truck, I did mention it to my mother,
but
> at the time I didn't think it was overly significant, but she still can
> recall me mentioning it. And also right after I put down the phone with
my
> friend, and then came back, I told him what had happen. I told several
> people directly after the incedent. And they all can recall what I said.
> And as far as brains "going wrong" (whatever you exactly mean by that),
> perhaps that will explain some failures in attempt to reproduce in a
> laboratory, but what about those psychic experiences in which someone
makes
> mention of something ahead of time and it happens to come true. Are all
of
> our brains "going wrong" coneviently at the same time?
>
> -Mike
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