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  • I believe it is something simple we do not yet have the capacity to measure and that which can not be recreated as an AI.

    Why do I believe it exists? Because I experience it constantly.

    I am going to tell you something based on a true story about a spring in Rome believed to cure disease. For centuries even after the fall of the Empire fell people flocked to it believing the Gods blessed it with healing properties.

    The scientific minded said bad to the whole thing and assumed it nothing but a legend that fools took stock in. However people continued to come and be healed, no one could explain it.

    Until the invention of the Geiger Counter and the discovery of radiation.

    The legend had been true all along. The spring had been mildly radioactive! It was killing off what was killing the patrons!

    No one had anyway of knowing until suddenly they did.

    I believe conciousness to be a similar story that we haven’t seen the end of. Perhaps free will is one as well.











  • I could show quite a few unflattering articles about Randi’s controversies but I feel his supporters insist that the fact that the challenge existed was the end all be all. In and of itself.

    When one must realize that Randi’s big claim to fame was the million dollar challenge and without that he had nothing.

    Critical thinking should tell you quite simply that JREF’s donations required appealing to skeptics. If Randi went to bat for anything that seemed supernatural his fans would turn on him, and if his big claim to fame was an unwinnable contest then his bread and butter demanded that he never allowed the contest to be won.

    It’s that simple.

    Now one could say that he’d get famous and rich for confirming Magick exists but… why would he? The papers would talk about the psychic not the foundation and further studies couldn’t be done at JREF because it wasn’t a scientific research facility and James had no training in science at all…

    It merely had people who were trained to look out for things like cold reading and the like.

    There’s nothing to gain and everything to lose and the fact that 99% of people who applied to challenge were turned down and 0% of those who did even got past so much as a preliminary round. Well it’s a little sus.

    Now I’m not saying magic is out there and JREF is hiding it. If it were then JREF wouldn’t have the means to hide it.

    What I am saying is JREF and James Randi were not scientists they were showmen and that’s very important to keep in mind.

    Sharing The idea that you can debunk a phenomenon by yelling “FAKE!” And doing a smug dance is something that offers more harm than good imho. Especially when you get people like Anti-Vaxxers who Mimic this behavior though rallying against medicine instead of faith and folklore.