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[edit] Professor?

Should Mohinder be added to the category of 'Category:Fictional professors'? --DJ Chair 12:32, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Yeah cause he is. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by BioYu-Gi! (talk • contribs) at 17:53, October 17, 2006 (UTC)
I wasn't sure, because he is no longer teaching at the college, and thus not really a professor. --DJ Chair 13:32, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
not being a member of the academic community myself I can't say for certain but the way I understand it the title of Professor is like the title Doctor you get to keep it even after you retire. Granted the title and it being your occupation are different but I would say he should be listed there. -- Argash  |  talk  |  contribs  05:43, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
So, as a compromise, should we list his occupation as Professor of Taxi-Cabs? --DJ Chair 13:13, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

I also added him to the List of heroic fictional scientists and engineers -- prezzey 00:44, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mohinder's occupation

My change of Mohinder's occupation to 'Professor' was reverted. I disagree with the change to 'Cab driver', but I do understand the reasoning.

I think we should go with the occupation most relevant to the character. 'Cab driver' is incidental, and we don't even know if that 'job' lasted after the encounter with Mr. Bennett. Mohinder's background as a paranormal geneticist (or whatever) is much more relevant to his role in the story.

Thoughts? Elliskev 17:22, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

On the NBC website, Mohinder's occupation is described as "genetics professor," and that's how he describes himself on the show. Primogen 22:57, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Since I have a legitimate reference for what Mohinder's occupation is, I changed it on the article and included the citation. Primogen 23:06, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Degree

On Mohinder's page at nbc.com, if you click his degree on the wall, you will see it zoomed in. The text on the degree is as follows:

The Regents of the
University of Madras (in nice big flowery letters)
on the nomination of the Graduate Council of Madras have conferred upon
Mohinder Suresh (in nice big block letters)
having demonstrated ability by original research in Parapsychology this degree of Doctor of Philosophy with all the rights and privileges thereto pertaining
(signature) (seal) (signature)

(On the degree itself, it's all capital letters, but that's hard to read here, so I've proper-cased it.) So actually, the degree itself is just "Doctor of Philosophy"; it's just that his original research (eep!) was in Parapsychology. --Psiphiorg 21:23, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Good detective work, Psiphiorg! (Um, that doesn't count as original research, does it? :-) ) So, Mohinder does have Ph.D. in Parapsychology after all. (Hm, funny that he considered Peter's stories to be nutty, even though he took psychics and poltergeists seriously enough to devote his doctorate degree to their study. ). But he is also a genetics professor, according to elsewhere on the website. Primogen 22:33, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
He could teach Genetics, and still have a Ph.D in Parapsychology. For example, most lawyers have a degree in engineering or something, but they usually dont have one in law.

[edit] Mohinder's Powers

It was listed as "retrocognition," but I changed it to "clairvoyance." Retrocognition is simply a term to know that which has already happened, far too generic to describe Mohinder's abilities. Anyone is a retrocognetic. If you have memories, you have the ability of retrocognition. However, clairvoyance is a much more specific term used for the supernatural ability to know that which has already happened even if you have no possible way of knowing it. Mohinder's visions of his parents talking and his father's death are both events that he had no way of seeing firsthand, therefore they aren't memories that can simply be accessed when he wished. In the study of extrasensory perception, "clairvoyant" is commonly the label tagged to people who share abilities similar to what Mohinder has expressed. 66.82.9.42 06:16, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

That's a good guess, but IMO I don't think it is really clear what Mohinder's powers are yet, and to what extent. I'll leave others to do the edit warring though...--Hypergeometric2F1(a,b,c,x) 06:21, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

How do we know that he even has powers? The little boy with the soccer ball, Tyler Something, was seen in a folder along with news clippings about sleep and dreams. Maybe this kid can manipulate dreams? It is too soon to be calling these powers Mohinder's--Piemanmoo 07:45, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

It was the boy, not Mohinder. I think it should be taken down.

144.118.211.22

Somebody took it down, correctly so. Primogen 19:38, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
I know. It was me :) 144.118.211.22

Can we decide to either put "Unknown" or "None" for Mohinder's power. It keeps changing. Basically we need to decide if the possibility exists that Mohinder has the ability or not. PureSoldier 23:54, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

It really doesn't. They stated Micah's power months ago in TV guide. Mohinder's always been frankly discribed as a non-superhuman. The power was the boy's. Ace Class Shadow; My talk. 04:17, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
OK, I haven't seen any official things, unless they're on here. Thanks for the info.PureSoldier 06:21, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Number of appearances

It's not premature counting. Mohinder appears in all episodes so far except for "Nothing to Hide" and "Six Months Ago". That is 8, not 7. Please, don't revert these changes, I checked all the numbers of appearances for the main characters, and lots of them were wrong. I'm *not* including tonigh's episode. Renenarciso 21:02, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

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