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I don't quite see this one. Telepathy and telekinesis would be easy enough to implement via the Matrix or even lesser technologies. Even precognition holds out the possibility of expanding our account of causality to allow loops, which General Relativity occasionally seems to threaten. How is psi on the same order as 2 + 2 = 3, or Jehovah as the one true God of all reality?
What's this "the Matrix" everyone in this thread is talking about? The movie? The idea that we're all in a computer simulation?
Btw, as for causality loops, Feynman describes antimatter as "just like regular matter, only traveling backwards in time", which means if we allow for time travel, we've just reduced the number of types of particles in our description of reality by half =].
The latter. If you see telepathy, it's more likely that you're in a simulation in a reductionist universe than in an irreducible universe.