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Rationale for disbelief: - Ambient human body temperature is a constant source of noise as infrared photons. - In a dark, cold environment the h
by T0T0R0 10y ago
Rationale for disbelief:
- Ambient human body temperature is a
constant source of noise as infrared
photons.
- In a dark, cold environment the human body
is radiating a constant shower of photons
in a limited spectrum. Interference patterns
could augment paths and energies of photons
in flight.
- A human might simply guess at sensations
and produce statistical anomalies that we
want to believe in.
- A guessing human might intuitively gain
an understanding of implicit tells in the
detection process, and notice cues from
the researchers, and interpret behavioral
signals to provide affirmative responses
to stimuli.
- How many photons can an individual simply
think into existence by willful thought?
Who's to say that the test subjects aren't
detecting psychic brain waves from the
researchers, by way of Vulcan mind melds
and subsequent "remote viewing" events?
...after all, photons are tiny.
- theon144 10y ago> - Ambient human body temperature is a > constant source of noise as infrared > photons. Which are outside of the visible range, and wouldn't interfere with the experiment, assuming they used visible range photons (the article doesn't mention this, but why would they not). > - A human might simply guess at sensations > and produce statistical anomalies that we > want to believe in. Isn't literally any study susceptible to this? Besides: "Still, participants were able to answer correctly more frequently than would be expected if they had guessed at random — and their confidence level was higher when they were right." suggests this wasn't an one-off anomaly. (Although N=3 nonetheles...) > - A guessing human might intuitively gain > an understanding of implicit tells in the > detection process, and notice cues from > the researchers, and interpret behavioral > signals to provide affirmative responses > to stimuli. I think the researchers might have heard of the double-blind method. > - How many photons can an individual simply > think into existence by willful thought? > Who's to say that the test subjects aren't > detecting psychic brain waves from the > researchers, by way of Vulcan mind melds > and subsequent "remote viewing" events? I might be missing a joke?
- VLM 10y agoOP is kidding, I can identify the first statement as the pre-quantum ultraviolet catastrophe argument where everything warmer than absolute zero should emit one single honkin big gamma ray and drop back to absolute zero, whereas in practice blackbody radiation doesn't go to infinity with short wavelengths but goes to a peak (for example "red hot steel") What I can't identify by name is the philosophical arguments in the other statements. I'm about 90% sure one is a metaphysical Copenhagen interpretation of QM (You've heard of Heisenberg's lucky cat?) but I'm not as certain as the UV catastrophe analogy. Depends how you read it, I guess.
- T0T0R0 10y agoWho are you, and how did you find me??? (...and it's Schrödinger's Cat)
- dalke 10y agoThing is, we've been doing experiments for about a century where eyes were used as low photon count sensors. For example, the Geiger–Marsden experiments, a.k.a the Rutherford gold foil experiment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geiger%E2%80%93Marsden_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geiger%E2%80%93Marsden_experim... If what you say is true then we should have seen a signal from it long ago.