Goertzel on Psi in H+ Magazine

Kaj_Sotala

Ben Goertzel has a rather long psi-related article in Humanity Plus Magazine, apparently prompted by the recent precognition study to be published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. He's arguing that psi is real and we should expect to see the results of this study replicated.

I grew up very skeptical of claims of psychic power, jaded by stupid newspaper astrology columns and phony fortune-tellers claiming to read my future in their crystal balls for $20. Clearly there are many frauds and self-deluded people out there, falsely claiming to perceive the future and carry out other paranormal feats. But this is no reason to ignore solid laboratory evidence pointing toward the conclusion that, in some cases, precognition really does exist.

My instinctive response to that chart was "YOU LIE!" I suspect the data is either based on a skewed sample, an incredibly broad definition of ESP, or simply wrong.

I expect the true number to be far higher than I'd like to believe, but 55% just doesn't make sense.

I expect the true number to be far higher than I'd like to believe

You'd like to be true, not you'd like to believe (I do so hope).

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