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PSI/psychic

Book Summary by: charmz    

Original Authors: Edward Smith; Susan Nolen-Hoeksema; Barbara Fredrickson; Geoffrey Loftus
5Existence of psi, anomalous processes of information and/or energy transfer that cannot currently be explained in terms
of known biological or physical mechanisms. The phenomena of psi are the subject matter of parapsychology (beside or beyond psychology) and include the following:1. Extrasensory perception (ESP). Response to external stimuli without any known sensory contact.A. Telepathy- transference of thought from one person to another without the mediation of any known channel of sensory communication, example, identifying a playing card that is merely being thought of by another person.B. Clairvoyance- perception of objects or events that do not provide a stimulus to the known senses, for example, identifying a concealed playing card whose identity is unknown to anyone.C. Precognition- perception of a future event that could not be anticipated through any known inferential process, for example, predicting that a particular number will come up on the next throw of a pair of dice.
Published: November 02, 2007
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