Autcsrgv.296
net.misc
utzoo!utcsrgv!perelgut
Tue Apr 20 11:12:47 1982
PSI and precognition
I am another "open-minded" skeptic. That declaimer aside, does
anyone "out-there" remember a 60-Minutes show which dealt with precog's.
It was aired roughly 1 year ago. The viewpoint they took (they always take
exactly one) was that it is probably true. To back this up, they referred
to a U.S. agency which asked that anyone who had what they felt was a
precognitive dream should call/write the agency immediately with as many
details as possible. They had "documented" cases where they received a
report which "accurately" and "unquestionably" were instances of precog.
I do not recall if there was a case where this information was used to
avert tragedy.
As you can tell by the quoted words, I am still doubtful, however the
possibilities of precognition are interesting. If it is possible,
would the military use it as the perfect attack/defense director or would
it be put into civil use? Are there already precog's who we know of as
extremely wealthy/fortunate people (stockbrokers or gamblers for example,
perhaps politicians or "pollsters")? What does precognition tell us about
causality? If everything I am going to do, I "have done" then why should
I do anything. In fact, this very letter is predictable! Or can we safely
assume my second favourite, malleable time and parallel universes such as
in "Probability Broach" or "Paratime" or numerous other science fiction
works.
Just thought I'd add my two-cents worth (3-cents canadian) to the
discussion.
--- stephen perelgut ---
--- decvax!utzoo!utcsrgv!perelgut ---
-----------------------------------------------------------------
gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen <
[email protected]>
of
http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/
This Usenet Oldnews Archive
article may be copied and distributed freely, provided:
1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles.
2. The following notice remains appended to each copy:
The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996
Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.
