"Science and the taboo of psi" with Dean Radin

Google Tech Talks
January, 16 2008

ABSTRACT

Do telepathy, clairvoyance and other "psi" abilities exist? The majority of the general population believes that they do, and yet fewer than one percent of mainstream academic institutions have any faculty known for their interest in these frequently reported experiences. Why is a topic of enduring and widespread interest met with such resounding silence in academia? The answer is not due to a lack of scientific evidence, or even to a lack of scientific interest, but rather involves a taboo. I will discuss the nature of this taboo, some of the empirical evidence and critical responses, and speculate on the implications.

Speaker: Dean Radin
Dean Radin is a researcher and author in the field of parapsychology. He is Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and four-time former President of the Parapsychological Association. He holds an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a masters degree in electrical engineering and a doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has worked at AT&T Bell Labs and GTE Labs, mainly on human factors of advanced telecommunications products and services, and held appointments at Princeton University, Edinburgh University, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, SRI International, Interval Research Corporation, and Boundary Institute. At these facilities he was engaged in basic research on exceptional human capacities, principally psi phenomena.

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[meltingEyeballs]

Non local interactions exists in quantum physics even though we do not fully understand them, yet we've use this phenomenal in quantum computing. All this is unthinkable in the past. There're too many close minded academics defending their comfort zone even in this modern era.

[IceAges14Aces]

@pyromonkey8 "This is silly. his proof that psi exists is by saying " there is proof"

Quite intellectually lazy and quite frankly imprudent of you for saying such an ignoramus and bigoted thing. Have you even listen to his whole lecture? I'm assuming you haven't.....

"It just isn't worth looking at because it doesn't exist."

Doesn't exist? Have you even bother to look at these studies? I'm assuming you also haven't...

[weduku]

"and yet fewer than one percent of mainstream academic institutions have any faculty known for their interest in these frequently reported experiences."

Well, even more people believe in various religions, and they HAVE faculties for studying it. Even with academics institutions studying it, they STILL cannot prove or document anything.

Alien abductions are also "frequently reported experiences". Do you want academic institutions established to study that too? Anecdotal evidence bores me.

[Jordainio]

Hello Dean Radin,

i am 12 minutes into this video and it has already impacted me....

The graph is amazing, a brilliant visualization. THANK you so much

[SilvaUltraMindESP]

I challange you all to try the José Silva Ultramind ESP course and tell me this is NOT a piece of our nature :-) (If in Norway I will give it for free too those whom is not convinced)

PS. Try your kids with cards etc and take notes of results, you will be amazed!

[deadmau5321]

@IceAges14Aces HAHA! Your a idiot!!!

1,008 hits from 3,145 is not evidence of psychic or telepathy whatsoever.....

Have a good day!

[IceAges14Aces]

@deadmau5321 "Why do you believe in psychic phenomena?"

I don't believe, I only accept things with "empirical evidence" accumulated with data-collection and always open to the possibility of falsification. The Ganzfeld, DMILS, etc. peer-reviewed studies are one of the reasons why I said parapsychological research warrants further research.

"Psychic phenomena doesn't exist its a bunch of mystical mumbo-jumbo bullcrap.... "

Pseudo-skepticism and dogmatism at its finest!

[IceAges14Aces]

@deadmau5321 "How the hell did he got 29 million trillion to one with 3,145 sessions with 88 experiments and say its evidence of telepathy? Talk about pseudo-science and ignorance in mathematics..."

The irony with this is that you're the one whose actually ignorant in scientific methodology/statistics. The actual probability of getting 1,008 hits from 3,145 ganzfeld sessions in a two-tailed t-test is P<0.000000001, which is extremely strong evidence in conventional, scientific criteria..

[deadmau5321]

@IceAges14Aces Why do you believe in psychic phenomena? Dean Radin is a fucking idiot! He thinks he scientifically prove psychic phenomena with his studies when his studies are flawed. How the hell did he got 29 million trillion to one with 3,145 sessions with 88 experiments and say its evidence of telepathy? Talk about pseudo-science and ignorance in mathematics...

Psychic phenomena doesn't exist its a bunch of mystical mumbo-jumbo bullcrap....

[DavidZimbeck]

@IceAges14Aces What worries me even more is how information is being more controlled and that we may lose touch with the creativity that inspired this type of development in the first place. People need to think outside the box in order to make the progress beyond this point. Combing science and "spirituality" or whatever word you use for it is definitely an awesome idea. After all, humans are very limited as far as sense of sight, smell, hearing. Certain animals outclass us in sensory ways.