It's easy to forget how little time ago parapsychology was still considered open question even by top minds. Everybody knows about Turing test and many can nam

It's easy to forget how little time ago parapsychology was still considered open question even by top minds. Everybody knows about Turing test and many can name and reference the seminal paper: A. M. Turing (1950) Computing Machinery and Intelligence. Mind 49: 433-460. https://www.csee.umbc.edu/courses/471/papers/turing.pdf https://www.csee.umbc.edu/courses/471/papers/turing.pdf > (9) The Argument from Extrasensory Perception > I assume that the reader is familiar with the idea of extrasensory perception, and the meaning of the four items of it, viz., telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition and psychokinesis. These disturbing phenomena seem to deny all our usual scientific ideas. How we should like to discredit them! Unfortunately the statistical evidence, at least for telepathy, is overwhelming. In the end Turing suggests that there is need for "telepathy-proof room" for Turing test if telepathy is admitted. -- edit -- my favorite CIA file from project SUN STREAK. Oct 1988: https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00789R001401150001-9.pdf https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00789... The goal of experiment was to identify the picture inside a folder by psychic means. It was the picture of Albert Einstein.