Intellectual humility

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(2019-08-03, 04:32 PM)Max_B Wrote: You can also look at Sony's espr research... which only used star children as subjects...

People who are particularly gifted, or good at everyday things are an obvious choice for subjects. Then target them with the stimulus they seem good at predicting...

Can you elaborate on these two points?

Especially the latter, how would you set it up so a person gifted at -for example- basketball could appropriately be tested for Psi?
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'

- Bertrand Russell


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(2019-08-03, 08:34 PM)Max_B Wrote: Well I would probably choose something a bit easier... somebody who is perhaps....  good at placing winning bets at the races.... good at winning on roulette... good at surviving in battle/war.... good at finding women and getting laid... etc...

Then I'd try to recreate/simulate all (or some) of the important parts of situations in which they succeed... but randomize what actually happens... after the have decided/acted...

Something like that anyway... Bem did that in Experiment 1 with erotic pictures, the young college stimulus seekers appeared to be better than average at finding a route through time to what motivates them...

Do you think VR/gaming might help facilitate this research?

I have to go back and look again at the Sony research...
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'

- Bertrand Russell


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