Overview

""Psi"" is the term used by researchers for a variety of demonstrable but elusive psychic phenomena. This collection of essays provides a detailed survey of the evidence for psi at the level of scientific examination. Key features of apparent psi phenomena are reviewed, including precognition and remote perception (knowledge of future or distant events that cannot be inferred from present information), presentiment (physiological responses to stimuli that have not yet occurred), the effects of human emotions on globally dispersed machines, the possible impact of local sidereal time on psi performance, and the familiar feeling of knowing who is calling on the phone. Special attention is given to those phenomena that make it difficult for scientists to get a clear understanding of psi. The body of psi research, while complex and frustrating, is shown to contain sufficiently compelling positive evidence to convince the rational open-minded observer that psi is real, and that one or more physical processes probably underlie observed psi phenomena.

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Author:   Damien Broderick ,  Ben Goertzel
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.572kg
ISBN:  

9780786478286

ISBN 10:   0786478284
Pages:   332
Publication Date:   05 November 2014
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Preface Introduction The Significance of Statistics in ­Mind-Matter Research (Jessica Utts) Physiological Activity That Seems to Anticipate Future Events (Julia A. Mossbridge) Anomalous Anticipatory Skin Conductance Response to Acoustic Stimuli: Experimental Results and Speculation About a Mechanism (Edwin C. May, Tamás Paulinyi and Zoltán Vassy) Revisiting the Ganzfeld ESP Debate: A Basic Review and Assessment (Bryan J. Williams) Telepathy in Connection with Telephone Calls, Text Messages and E-Mails (Rupert Sheldrake) Empirical Examinations of the Reported Abilities of a Psychic Claimant: A Review of Experiments and Explorations with Sean Harribance (Bryan J. Williams) Assessing Psi Ability Via the Ball Selection Test: A Challenge for Psychometrics (Suitbert Ertel) Through Time and Space: The Evidence for Remote Viewing (Stephan A. Schwartz) The PEAR Laboratory: Explorations and Observations (York Dobyns) The Global Consciousness Project: Subtle Interconnections and Correlations in Random Data (Roger D. Nelson) An Analysis of the Global Consciousness Project (Peter A. Bancel) Psi and the Environment: Local Sidereal Time and Geomagnetic Effects (S. James P. Spottiswoode) Skeptical Responses to Psi Research (Ted Goertzel and Ben Goertzel) The Future of Psi Research (Damien Broderick and Ben Goertzel) About the Contributors Index

Reviews

"This book, in effect, throws down the empirical psi gauntlet to the sceptics, saying that for any rational, even-handed reader not blinkered by prejudice the empirical evidence for the existence of psi is now beyond reasonable doubt and should be accepted as such by the scientific community. It deserves to be on the bookshelf of every parapsychologist, should be essential reading for all parapsychology students and, at the least, strongly recommended reading for the related disciplines of psychology and the neurosciences."" - Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, Vol. 79.4, No. 921"

This book, in effect, throws down the empirical psi gauntlet to the sceptics, saying that for any rational, even-handed reader not blinkered by prejudice the empirical evidence for the existence of psi is now beyond reasonable doubt and should be accepted as such by the scientific community. It deserves to be on the bookshelf of every parapsychologist, should be essential reading for all parapsychology students and, at the least, strongly recommended reading for the related disciplines of psychology and the neurosciences. - Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, Vol. 79.4, No. 921

Author Information

Damien Broderick is an Australian writer, editor and critical theorist who lives in San Antonio, Texas. Ben Goertzel is Chief Science Officer of Hong Kong financial prediction firm Aidyia Holdings, Chairman of Novamente LLC, a privately held software company, Vice Chairman of Humanity+, and Chairman of the OpenCog Foundation. He lives in Hong Kong.

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