Gramsci wrote: Fri Feb 07, 2025 2:14 am

enframed wrote: Thu Feb 06, 2025 12:07 pm

jimmy spako wrote: Mon Nov 25, 2024 8:22 am I've started The Telepathy Tapes.

Started yesterday. Amazing.

There’s a good natured debunking of this podcast on the Guardian Science podcast.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s ... 0684796520

I’m still going to listen because I enjoy stuff like this even if I think it’s bunk. There’s quite a few high value prizes for psychic phenomenon out there.

https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive ... doscience/

What is a high value prize? Just curious.

The debunking podcast I'll check out after I finish this, but the Skeptical Inquirer should probably not be referring to the unconscious mind in an attempt to debunk anything; I'm pretty sure we have no definitive proof still such a thing exists. The video of the man holding his son's arm, sure, that seems suspect. But the others not so much. The parent touching the child is addressed in the podcast as well.

I would not argue telepathy does certainly exist, but I don't rule out the possibility. Weird shit happens that cannot yet be explained by science as we know it today, which is different than science known was 200 years ago, when philosophy was considered science.

The Guardian podcast debunks in a more agnostic way.

There’s a bunch of very high value prizes for proof of psychic phenomena under controlled conditions. The most famous was James Randi One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge that ran from the mid 60s to 2015.

Who knows, maybe the kids in this podcast are psychic. I very much doubt it. Especially since the precursor is ASD, which is not a disease but a collection of symptoms. Therefore every kids in the “study” will be expressing ASD for very different reasons.

This is just Ripley’s Believe It or Not for the 21st century. Still fun, like YouTube videos on the Occult

OK so I listened to the debunking podcast. They mention the Telepathy Tapes (TT) exactly one time, and address literally none of the subject matter in the podcast, they don't mention non-speaking autism at all, which is the focus of the podcast. So effectively they debunk nothing of the TT.

Admittedly, the later episodes the TT do veer off the path of the first six and get kinda "out there." But the first six and half of the seventh episode are fascinating.

It should be remembered also that there is exactly zero proof that consciousness exists, yet we generally accept that it does.

I've found the recent weekly series titled "Executive Disorder" from the podcast It Could Happen Here to be a pretty straightforward recounting of what the fuck is going on if you need to limit your exposure to the 24-hour news cycle for sanity reasons.

enframed wrote: Fri Feb 07, 2025 5:35 pm OK so I listened to the debunking podcast. They mention the Telepathy Tapes (TT) exactly one time, and address literally none of the subject matter in the podcast, they don't mention non-speaking autism at all, which is the focus of the podcast. So effectively they debunk nothing of the TT.

Admittedly, the later episodes the TT do veer off the path of the first six and get kinda "out there." But the first six and half of the seventh episode are fascinating.

It should be remembered also that there is exactly zero proof that consciousness exists, yet we generally accept that it does.

The Guardian podcast is talking about telepathy in general because the most popular podcast on Apple is about telepathy.

I’ll give the podcast a listen, but it’ll take more than a show about the subject that’s studies haven’t been subjected to peer review to change my mind. I suspect if/when peer review is requested they be refused by the podcasters involved.

Who knows, maybe I’m wrong and science will irrefutably prove people with severe autism are psychic. I think it’s more likely in a couple of years we’ll be watching a Netflix show about how they scammed everyone.