From: popec@freeside.com (PopeC)
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk.tech
Subject: Re: CyberTelepathy.. 
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 20:08:31 CST
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nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu writes:

> In article <u34awB1w165w@freeside.com>, popec@freeside.com (PopeC) writes:
> > nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu writes:
> > 
> >> Sounds liek people need to figure out what the future will be in say 100 y
> >> and then do some back planning/thinking and figure out how we are to get
> >> there.. Such as what inventions and such need to come about to make it so.
> >> If things change, well we can re-think the point future and retrack the pa
> >> needed.. So far I have seen alot of gaming stuff, people more interested i
> >> to better play their Nintendo (c) than real future stuff..
> >> 
> >> Other topic:
> >> Humans seem to not be able to do it, or unwilling to do it, namely telepat
> >> And what one facet of computers and direc hardwiring is the ability to pas
> >> info from one human to another faster and clearer, without the emotional
> >> abiguities (sp).. I would love to be able to pass on my feeling to another
> >> person but find myself stopped by the crude I/O devices life has given us 
> >> far.. 
> >> 
> >> Ghost Wheel/Morgoth NSMCA@acad3.alaska.edu
> >> 
> > 
> > 
> > I got very deep into parapsychology for about 10 years.  I went thru all 
> > the literature, and checked and doublechecked all claims of telepathy and 
> > PK that I could.  After 10 long years of research, I conclude that the 
> > archskeptics are right.  It ain't likely that such things are real.. And 
> > the claims from some quarters that such phenomena are commona nd can be 
> > learned or innate skills sharpened with practice, proven untrue.
> >    Just my $.02.
> > 
> > Pope Charles    Subgenius Pope Of Houston.    Slack!
> > 
> > 
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> 
> 
> Maybe the problem with normal telepathy and ESP and such is that we are tryin
> the wrong methods and technoology. Maybe with jacking in to a computer we can
> talk to each other mind to mind, via radio waves or laser or maybe actually
> find that thing some call ESP?? 


Maybe is such a little word.... No.  We don't want maybe's or if's. We 
want to know what is probable, what has been tested.  Parapsycholgists 
have spent over a century banging away at this and have found nothing.
Just some anecdotal tales that are in the overall end, meaningless.  A 
lot of people have tried a lot of approaches to this, and there is not 
the slightest evidence that we can learn to do these things.  Suggesting 
computers will help is just a pipe dream.  There is not the slightest 
reason to even hope that it will.

Better to figure out a way to use technology to give a pretty good 
imitation of these things.  millenia of magicians, mystics, priests and 
mystics failed to teach man to fly.  Engineering did.

pope Charles

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