The Sixth Sense

[masterde]

No, not the movie. A real, live, actual sixth sense. We all know about the 5 senses. Sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing. There are several scientists that are looking at different ways to explain certain things that we just know that we shouldn't have any reason to know. Now, the 5 senses are all conscious senses. We engage them actively. The

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[lordes]

Well, it's a fact that we only use a certain percentage of our brain. That number has changed a few times over the course of the past couple of decades, sure, but we don't need to agree upon how much we don't use of our brain to agree that there's a part we don't use.

It can all be very possible that our "sixth sense" is locked somewhere in that part of the brain, and is only activated when "needed" or on special occasions. We don't do it out of habit, we need to focus. It would also explain why some people seem to have a sixth sense while others don't. It's the same as people who're intelectually challenged compared to people who are considered "genius". It seems as if everybody uses their brain in a different way and so creates a different potential for itself as an individual.

We don't know what plays in our subconscious and when and more importantly how it gets triggered, but I'd love to find out someday... somehow.

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[masterde]

Yeah, I agree that the way in which supposed psi activity is measured can lead to completely opposite results. Also, when these test subjects are in "shielded rooms" then what exactly is shielded? Is it from outside EM fields and have the same light levels, soundproof room, same temperature, etc? Normalizing as many variables as possible is important. Then one also has to take into account that when there is a large volume of participants, which is supposed to give more reliable data, that if the sampling pool is 300 people then they're not all going to agree that a specific ambient room temperature is "comfortable." Personal perceptions of reality would play a role, I would think. Someone who feels cold is going to partially focused on the fact that they feel cold rather than what they're experiencing. So they might ignore psi info in favor of their feeling uncomfortable. So I think that there's always going to be some margin of error

[lordes]

To me, it's mostly the fact that they're going at this in a sientific way and measuring things in a way that can be duplicated (the test itself). That way results can actually be compared, that makes this article so interesting to me.

Maybe some people are psi-blind, but maybe only because they (subconsciously) want to?

[masterde]

I agree that it is nice that they are going at this using the scientific method and measuring different things when reproducing an experiment. We still don't know what the link is. Brain waves or EM fields or something else we can't see/measure?

If they choose, even subconsciously, to not listen to psi information then that's still a choice and they could choose to listen. So they're not psi-blind. They're self-psi-blocking. And if someone can learn to block it out, then why can't they learn to use it?