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Good point, but to some extent that might defeat the purpose. Since my model is that psi is evasive I expect that the more people I clue in to the results or even the existence of the experiments, the less likely it is I'll get significant or sensible results. And with the retrocausal effects demonstrated by PEAR and so on, if I ever intend to publicize the results in the future then that itself is enough to cause psi to get evasive. Kennedy actually recommends keeping self-experimentation to oneself and precommiting to telling no one about the results for these reasons. So basically even if you get incredibly strong results you're left with a bunch of incommunicable evidence. Meh.
I have various responses ready for our other conversation by the way, which I'd like to get back to soon. I was finally able to get a solid twenty-two hours of sleep. My fluid intelligence basically stops existing when sleep-deprived.
Does Kennedy recommend a specific type of self-experimentation? What's the best way to test one's psi-abilities in your opinion?
I don't remember if he has any specific recommendations. I don't know what the best way to test ones abilities would be but the REG (random event generator) paradigm seems highly conducive to rigorous and thorough experimentation. Alas, I forget what the literature says about pseudo-random generators. I can't in good faith recommend psi experiments; on the one hand if psi is for real then we're probably doing it all the time without realizing it (which is I think the typical Eastern perspective), on the other hand it seems like a generally bad idea to go out of ones way to play around with a little-understood perhaps-agentic process. Playing with Thor seems significantly dumber than playing with fire.