Status Updates From Physics and Psychics

fun, but then he's preaching to the choir

"The supernatural has been a yoke on the neck of humanity since we first began to think and dream. Now those same thoughts and dreams are pointing the way to remove that yoke." - Victor J. Stenger

Computers don't need to have "human" intelligence. They only need to have intelligence. This can arise by natural or artificial processes.

No experiment done with human subjects has ever provided conclusive evidence for any phenomenon violating the hypotheses of reductionist, materialist science, despite countless claims and testimonials. Neither has the sum total of all experiments and anecdotal reports provided such evidence. The experiments and reports provide us with insufficient reason to consider the additional hypothesis of strong holism

If psychics are for real, why don't they play the lottery and win every time?

N. David Mermin succinctly summarized the conclusions of his own studies of the EPR paradox as follows: "If there is spooky action at a distance, then, like other spooks, it is absolutely useless except for its effect, benign or otherwise, on our state of mind"