Super-Psi & some notes from Braude's Immortal Remains

I feel the logical scientific position is to reject Super-psi on the grounds of Occam's razor. I know we have been over this territory several times before.

I would say that if psi exists (in a weak, strong, or super-strong form), that means that the human mind can achieve all sorts of effects regardless of the laws of physics, and given this, there is no powerful reason to reject the idea of life after death.

Without Occam's Razor, no science is possible.

David

I think Occam's Razor actually is a good argument against LAP or super psi (that argument being that actual communication with the dead in the afterlife is the most likely hypothesis since super psi is a much more complicated explanation requiring many more auxiliary hypotheses). However, the Occam's Razor argument isn't decisive, because the principle of parsimony is just a strong likelihood not an absolute law or rule of nature. The principle of parsimony has proved to be useful but not conclusive in the search for truth.

The arguments I outlined in post #136 (at https://psiencequest.net/forums/thread-s...5#pid60725 ) seem to me to be more conclusive, and the Occam's Razor argument just supplements them. I think the combination of all these arguments against LAP or super psi is absolutely decisive.