Telepathy
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This topic is a pseudoscience, and is not accepted by the scientific community as a valid discipline.
Although it may use scientific terminology, it does not use scientific methodology.
Remember: just because it sounds right doesn't mean it's actually right.
The transfer of information between individuals without any detectable connection (physical, electronic, electromagnetic) is called telepathy. Despite considerable testing, "telepathic" individuals have been unable to show true telepathy.[citation needed]
Several governments have studied telepathy with the intention of either using it as a secure means of communication or as a method of obtaining information by "reading minds".
Telepathic mind-reading has often been performed as a stage act. Many telepaths simply use suggestive questions to put ideas in the mind of their subjects (as demonstrated by Derren Brown in numerous performances).
Science fiction stories have used telepathy as a plot device countless times, but quite often it is electronically aided. The modern cell phone comes pretty close to doing the job.
Research into brain function, using either introduced probes or external detectors, to control electronic devices is seen by some as foreshadowing telepathy.[1] [2]
[edit] Footnotes
- ↑ Interview with a techno-enabled telepathy believer.
- ↑ http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2009/05/us_military_pours_mi.html
