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)

[edit] No merge with Psi

I've rolled back the proposed merge with the Psi article, since the two terms are not synonymous: Psi includes notions like telekinesis, which are outside of anomalous cognition.64.180.222.133 (talk) 21:31, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

You need some sources to back up your assertion. ScienceApologist (talk) 13:50, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Read the Psi article (which, frankly, you ought to have done before merging with it). In the terminology of Parapsychological Society, anomalous cognition etc. is "psi-gamma", telekinesis etc. is "psi-kappa". In their words, "they might simply be different aspects of a single process, rather than distinct and essentially different processes". In other words, they're not the same, though they might (if they exist) be aspects of the same thing.

The merge with Psychic more reasonable, though I still think a.c. could use its own article. 64.180.222.133 (talk) 13:15, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

You still lack sources. ScienceApologist (talk) 13:24, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

The Psi article I referred to provides ample sourcing for my assertion. Please do some cursory research before making these sorts of dismissive statements.64.180.222.133 (talk) 04:33, 1 April 2008 (UTC)