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Article #7475Re: Minor nit on psi experiment
From: Zdenek Radouch
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1986 00:52
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1986 00:52
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In article <1090@mmm.UUCP> cipher@mmm.UUCP (Andre Guirard) writes:
>
>...And the other important point, which you cut out of your quoting from
>the other article, is that if a subject can influence the outcome of a
>_deterministic_ process then there's some funny business going on. A
>person who can do this should also be able to get the following program:
>
> do forever {
> print "1"
> }
>
>to print something other than "1". Or an easier task, to get a
>computer to crash just by concentrating at it. This is easy to do by
>just randomly changing memory locations, after all.
[the rest of the article full of PSI deleted]
Let me tell you something. I am not an open minded person.
I really do have problems with my digesting tract when I see the words
"PSI" and "research" right next to each other. This time it's not a joke.
Sorry to disappoint you.
zdenek
zdenek@cs.columbia.edu or ...!seismo!columbia!cs!zdenek
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!columbia!heathcliff.columbia.edu!zdenek From: zdenek@heathcliff.columbia.edu (Zdenek Radouch) Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: Minor nit on psi experiment Message-ID: <3844@columbia.UUCP> Date: Thu, 13-Nov-86 19:52:19 EST Article-I.D.: columbia.3844 Posted: Thu Nov 13 19:52:19 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 13-Nov-86 23:03:31 EST References: <236@sri-arpa.ARPA> <3782@columbia.UUCP> <1090@mmm.UUCP> Sender: nobody@columbia.UUCP Reply-To: zdenek@heathcliff.columbia.edu.UUCP (Zdenek Radouch) Followup-To: sci.psisics Distribution: net Organization: Columbia University CS Department Lines: 26