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Old 05-11-2005   #1 (permalink)
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How can telepathy be possible in perspective of science?

How can telepathy be possible in perspective of science?

Does the brain emit electric pulses?

If so then is telepathy plausible?


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Old 05-11-2005   #2 (permalink)
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Re: How can telepathy be possible in perspective of science?

Remotely plausable but highly unlikely. Any EMF emitted by the brain would beak weak and would be drown out by background EMF. This would be useless and would not provide better reproductive success and not selected for.


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Lightbulb Re: How can telepathy be possible in perspective of science?

___String theorists have no problem using up some of those extra dimensions for such phenomena as telepathy, at least according to Michio Kaku.


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Re: How can telepathy be possible in perspective of science?

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How can telepathy be possible in perspective of science?

Does the brain emit electric pulses?

If so then is telepathy plausible?
None of the four natural forces can be responsible for it, as far as I can tell. Telepathy has not been demonstrated as far as I know, and if it could be demonstrated, I doubt whoever could do it would not show it to the world to convince the skeptics.
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Re: How can telepathy be possible in perspective of science?

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None of the four natural forces can be responsible for it, as far as I can tell. Telepathy has not been demonstrated as far as I know, and if it could be demonstrated, I doubt whoever could do it would not show it to the world to convince the skeptics.
Why not? I doubt media attention would be something that all telepathic people fear, some might even enjoy it, if they possessed the ability.

(Like me. *Telekinesis used to type*, again)


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Re: How can telepathy be possible in perspective of science?

1) The human brain has electroencephalographic outputs under 50 Hz. There is no bandwidth available for telepathic information transfer and there is no bandwdith available for uplink-downlink separation from more than six billion minds. No telepathy.

2) At any given moment at least 100 million people lethally hate Bill Gates, 24/7, yet he lives. No telepathy.

3) Your average human brain burns along at around 80 watts. That sums to 500 billion watts of brainpower worldwide. How does it escape detection? No telepathy.


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Re: How can telepathy be possible in perspective of science?

I'll buy that. But that doesn't shoot down telekinesis .

Ahhh, good ol' mind over matter.


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To my knowledge telepathy is most often accomplished by using phonation to stimulate the tympanic membrane of the receiver.


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Lightbulb Re: How can telepathy be possible in perspective of science?

___I must reaccert(sp) the extra dimensions of string theory & moreover doesn't quantum mechanics 'prove' instantaneous action at a distance through experiment?
___No proof is not a proof.
___I recently saw a study on how dogs know the owner is coming before they are anywhere near enough to smell or hear or see; they ran tests of visits at non-routine times as well.


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Cool Re: How can telepathy be possible in perspective of science?

...or that weird gland that some sharks have that can detect EM from muscle movement from some significant distance or being able to smell blood miles off. Who's to say that telepathy isn't pheromone based? Or quantum entanglement based? <twilight zone music plays/>

OTOH, its clearly and iffy thing, and non-reproducible under formal scientific experimentation. Psychic soccer moms can be wrong a lot of the time like on Medium...

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