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• W320784251 abstract "We are, in some sense, victims of our own success. There is now incontrovertible evidence for a statistically based information transfer anomaly we currently do not understand. (1) Not everyone in our field agrees with that statement 100%, but it does raise a very important technical definitional question. The reason that some informed skeptics do agree with it is that the statement does not say of even imply that anomalous cognition (AC) (2) exists. Rather, it simply claims that some people have the capacity to acquire information (i.e., cognition) in ways we do not currently understand (i.e., anomalously). On the other hand, this statement does raise an important question: What is anomalous cognition? This is one of the technical challenges we face. At this point in our discipline, we do not have a positive definition of AC. Many of us have our own versions of a definition, and here is mine: The acquisition, by mental means alone, of information that is blocked from the ordinary senses by shielding, distance, or time. Definitional Problems Essentially the definition above means that we define anything that happens when it shouldn't according to the known senses, as AC-a negative definition to be sure. Moreover, this definition has profound implications that are rarely discussed, at least directly, for experiments. It is rather straight forward and relatively inexpensive to design a protocol that meets the requirement in the above definition? For example, the target material can be separated from the participant by hundreds of even thousands of kilometers, and the intended, randomly selected target can be generated in a blind fashion after the participant has completed her/his response--a precognition approach. This protocol will satisfy most of us as foolproof. However, even here there is a significant problem that is lurking behind the scenes. It takes on many forms and is especially problematic for field research. That is, if we cannot think of a normal way to account for an observation, then it must have happened by paranormal means. Unfortunately, this is more a comment about the researcher than it is about the phenomenon. I will illustrate the point where I personally had fallen into this seductive trap. During the SRI International years of the psi project, I went undercover to a metal-bending workshop in South Lake Tahoe, California, that was organized and directed by a then-recognized name in metalbending circles asa qualified practitioner. In advance of the workshop, I had gone to a local cutlery store and purchased a number of high quality soup spoons with shafts that were shaped in such a way as to make them especially difficult to bend. I was unable to do so mechanically beyond a slight curve. I asked an SRI technician to place a small surreptitious mark on the underside end of the handles so that I could be assured the spoons had not been replaced. Off I went to Lake Tahoe and arrived for a Friday evening session. Friday evening passed, so did all day Saturday and Sunday, and there was no attempt to bend anything either by the group (about 10 people) or by the instructor. Rather, in my opinion, we were subjected to food, sleep, and logic deprivation. Each day's activity had hardly any food breaks and the sessions went far into the early mornings of the next day. The instruction included every possible new age idea, alien abductions, UFOs, and even weirder things. Remember that I am from Northern California, so for me to say that something is weird, it is really weird. A possible serious point here, however, is that all this activity put the participants in some kind of altered state and significantly depressed any tendency for logical analyses. Perhaps this is a requirement to allow PK to happen. By 3 a.m. Monday, we finally began to bend forks and spoons. We were all seated on the floor with a large pile of cutlery that was easily reachable. …" @default.
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• W320784251 title "Technical Challenges for the Way Forward" @default.
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