Talk:Anomalous cognition

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[edit] Distinguishing

There is currently no known way of differentiating "telepathy" (mind to mind information transfer) from, say, precognition in an experimental setup, as the target information must be recorded at some point to make a comparison with the subjects responses.

This sentence from the article is incorrect. Predicting lottery numbers, for example, could be precognition, but could not be telepathy. Off the top of my head, telepathy can be explicitly distinguished within a poor trust-required design which would have the sender choose a number, the recipient guess the number, write it down, and then tell the sender. The sender can then simply mark "yes" or "no", with "no" recording no further information about the number. There are probably also more rigorous telepathy setups which would also distinguish in that direction. I replaced it with a more general sentence. — Cortonin | Talk 08:02, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)