ChristianKl comments on Open thread, Aug. 10 - Aug. 16, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion
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If we take a person into our attention that stands right in front of us, our breathing rhythm tries to sync with the other person. We hear the breathing patterns of people around us, and react to them.
While experimenting around with my body I have managed in the past to accidently made a person sitting next to me felt stared at, without my eyes being focused on them. The person couldn't really explain why they felt that way.
If you care about extra sensorial perception you would need to eliminate audio perception. Likely also also olfactory cues because the would be the next channel where the information might be communicated.
Videos in general are not strong evidence. If you want to be taken seriously on LW, then need to refer to the actual scientific papers and understand what they say. Scientific papers still often don't replicate and a single paper with p>0.05 is certainly not enough to establish ESP, but at least that's a start.
Why "of course"? Get Evernote and actually take note if you read interesting things and safe the links.