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22nd November 2016, 03:34 PM | #321 |
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I think I can claim a hit here, because I described a flying submarine that was all of the possible choices except an automobile. It seems fairly clear that that's exactly what someone engaged in a criminal conspiracy to hide the truth about telepathy would say.
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So was the dog amused because he could hear what you were typing? Is that your claim?
Just so we know, you think you are telepathic because once, a dog stopped barking? Can you repeat that "experiment"? |
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Originally Posted by Matthew Ellard
You are now claiming dogs around the world can read your thoughts as you type the word "automobile". You previously claimed that dogs were upset because you said "dogs could not read" Which is the correct story? If you cannot remember, well that indicates you simply made a mistake and you are not telepathic and we can drop this story. Questions Michel H refuses to answer. 1) If it is repeatable, the why do you refuse to undergo a test with animals, where you make them do something? (This eliminates humans, who you arbitrarily dismiss as "credible" and "non credible"). 2) How do you know all dogs "around the world" received this message as you claimed? 3) How do you know the dog was "amused"? Did the one dog send you back a message "I am amused" or did all the dogs around the world send you a message "we are amused"? |
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23rd November 2016, 02:47 AM | #328 |
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I don't fully understand why people keep responding to Michael's tests, whether seriously or in jest, unless they are new to his posts.
Michael will never accept any argument showing he is not truly telepathic. He's made up his mind. (It is curious, because the fact he keeps posting his "tests" shows there is still some doubt somewhere in him, but that doubt has never really been apparent beyond the interminable posting of his decidedly unscientific "tests".) Joking or sarcastic responses are useless, because Michael will either not get the joke or sarcasm, or will explain it away and figure out a convoluted way in which the response actually supports his own foregone conclusions. Urging Michael to seek medical help to try to solve his problems would seem to be an adequate approach, but unfortunately Michael has continually rejected such suggestions. So I continue to think ignoring the "tests" is probably best. I urge everyone to seriously consider this as the best approach. |
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IIRC, Kate Upton has two very nice flotation devices, which makes DuvalHMFIC's answer more related to 'boat'.
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I don't think Michel persists with his 'tests' due to any lingering doubt. Rather I suspect he would like to gather evidence that the entire human race is conspiring to pretend we can't hear him.
Ideally he would like solid, undeniable evidence so he can say "There! That proves you can hear me". It's hard to imagine what it must be like to be unshakably convinced of something so absurd. I wish there was something we could say that might help but although we can reason with Michel, I don't think Michel's problem can be reasoned with. |
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Thoughts are based on electro-chemical events. The electro-chemical events producing a particular belief can be caused by the experience of real events, or can be caused by internal changes in the the brain unrelated to real events. The belief can be just as strong in either case because it is ultimately manifested by, and based on, the same chemical events in the brain.
One can honestly, firmly, and sincerely believe something, such that one can transmit thoughts to others or to animals, whether one actually experienced these events or only thinks that one did. In either case, evidence to the contrary is likely to be ignored and/or manipulated to match the belief, because the belief itself is (to the person holding it) obviously true. They may have some part of their brain that is unsure, but the more powerful and emotionally driven part is sure. This is why I do not think that Michel H is trying to pull our legs. I am convinced that he very much believes he can broadcast his thoughts. Feel free to choose which explanation appeals to you- I know which one I've chosen, and why I usually try to avoid participating in this thread. Sorry to be repetitive when I do. |
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That's even worse for your claim.
Firstly, if you have never had a successful experiment, on any forum, indicating any human can hears your thoughts around the world, then how do you know humans worldwide can hear your thoughts? If you have such a successful experiment link us to that so we may review your methodology and results. Secondly, you have created a paradox, in your claim. You are now claiming humans around the world can hear your thoughts but dogs can't? Yet you claim you have telepathy with both dogs and humans. How do you explain that? |
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The results of my latest test on this forum were not very obvious to analyze, but here are some clear and interesting testimonies.
On Yahoo Answers, I asked, in 2010 (in the Parapsychology category):
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This member (im) was exceptional; he had a best answer rate equal to 93% for 999 answers on Yahoo Answers. In August 2013, I started a new telepathy test on this forum: About 30 minutes later, Ashles commented: About 15 hours later, Tiktaalik replied: Her number was correct. Much more recently (in September of this year), I launched a new test: cullennz answered correctly "plane": After I revealed his answer was correct, cullennz reacted:
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Interestingly, even a moderator of this forum (once) replied: in one of my first tests, his answer was correct. As to your question about dogs, I am not saying that humans around the world can hear my thoughts while dogs can't. What I am saying is that, regarding very-long-distance telepathy with dogs, I have no evidence, but that doesn't mean such effects do no exist, it seems more likely to me they do exist. |
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How many people who stated they were equally sure of the answer were wrong?
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Here's a hypothetical question, Michel: Imagine that I was convinced that dogs were aware of what I was thinking. Imagine that I was in the habit of trying to will them to look around to their left or look around to their right and I estimated that maybe 20% of the time, dogs seemed to me to react to what I was trying to tell them to do.
Can you think of an experiment I might try which would allow me to demonstrate to my own satisfaction whether or not that 20% figure was in any way realistic? |
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I don't think this has ever happened (seriously) on this forum (though I think this may have happened on another forum). At the end of each test, I review all answers of course, not just some of them, that I may like better.
If I remember correctly, Loss Leader was the only member who, after giving a correct answer, stated that this answer was not to be taken seriously (this is what he said, that does not necessarily mean it is true). However, he started himself two telepathy tests on this forum, thereby showing his interest for the subject. You can try of course such an experiment, but you are very unlikely to succeed, in my opinion. Even me, who seems to have such unusual telepathic "properties", I don't think I could do that. One thing to keep in mind is that animal can have mental health problems (like us, humans), and that their mental health should in principle be respected. To obtain the best results with animals in ESP, the best way is to treat them with respect, like human beings, in my opinion. |
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Wait a tic,,,, so you are saying one person was very convinced she had the correct number in a 1:4 choice test?
And you are astounded and consider this evidence of telepathy and not that statistics has some relevancy in such a test...... |
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I think it is certainly remarkable that some people would reply:
in a simple telepathy test on the forum of a famous educational foundation (with a rather skeptical orientation), and that both answers would turn out to be correct. However, when I did the analysis (link) of the test in which these remarkable statement were made, I did not limit myself to just these two answers, I studied all answers given, and I also did a statistical analysis, with a p-value calculation. |
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Do you mean that you think a 20% success rate is far too ambitious or do you mean it's very unlikely that even someone genuinely telepathic could ever persuade a dog to do anything?
If you mean the former, what sort of experiment might we design to detect a rarely successful ability (while remaining ethical and respectful toward dogs)? How about this: a dog who is happy, contented, well-adjusted and loves to play is shown a new game by its owner. The game is that the owner throws two balls and the dog brings them back one at a time (because they're a little too large to carry both). The balls need to be distinctive in some way that you and the dog can both perceive (maybe one white and one black, or one has stripes or something like that). All you have to do is flip a coin (unseen by anyone else) while the owner prepares to throw the balls and use that to choose which ball you telepathically ask the dog to bring back first. Let the dog play its game over and over and count the percentage of times it brings back the requested ball first. It seems to me that could be the basis of a viable scientific measure of someone's telepathic ability with dogs, and neatly gets around the problem of whether human subjects act sincerely. There is, one presumes, no possibility of a worldwide conspiracy among dogs to pretend that telepathy isn't real. |
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It appears to me that you're looking for evidence to validate your belief that you are telepathic. The type of experiment I described ought to help confirm or refute that belief. I thought you might be interested in trying something like that to find out if your belief is real or illusory. |
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Originally Posted by Matthew Ellard
Originally Posted by Matthew Ellard
1)Dogs are reading your thoughts, around the world, 2) You can make dogs do things like stop barking, Put on a telepathic demonstration at 3pm Belgium time on Saturday and make all the dogs in the world stop barking. You can do that to produce clear evidence for your claims, right? |
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I'm going to say this openly. Michel H is specifically avoiding any discussion of statistics or hypothetical physics for his claim.
He claimed to have a doctorate in physics, but at no point has he used any of the skills or knowledge, of statistics, physics, or the scientific method & controls, that a physicist would need to have. I put it to him, he is simply playing the very unscientific "Yes, but...." word game, when responding to other member's questions. |
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Originally Posted by Matthew Ellard
There you go. Your own provided quote says you can ignore any answer that you personally don't think is credible. You simply ignore any unbiased result and immediately ignore the actual statistical result. You are playing the "Yes, but....."word game. "It is possible that my own gamma waves have something special in the message they convey (perhaps because I am more altruistic than most), which would explain why they are understood better than the average. It is also possible that my "special" telepathic waves get understood and re-emitted by other brains after a long journey, and thereby amplified." However, random gamma waves don't convey any information like boat, ship, car or "dog stop barking" and you never offered any hypothesis on how they could. You then totally ignored how everyone else and animals would physically receive your "gamma ray messages" nor why they don't diminish over distance, nor are interfered with, by other natural waves forms. You never fully set out any testable scientific hypothesis on purpose. "Researchers at MIT say that brain waves are so weak, they are hardly measurable at all. The magnetic field of the earth is just strong enough to move the needle of a compass. Signals from the brain are a billionth of that strength. To capture brain signals, the MEG scanner is kept in a room shielded with mu metal, a special alloy that blocks external magnetic fields. That's how they are able to measure even the slightest magnetic signals from the brain". Let's be frank. A scientific hypothesis is used to explain a particular phenomena. At no point have you given any evidence that any identifiable specific phenomena is taking place... |
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Belgium Greyhound Racing : Simple test.
Michel H. I have good news for you. Greyhound racing is common in Belgium. There is a greyhound course near you.
As you can command dogs to "stop barking" you can simply go down to the track and command the dogs to not leave the starting gates. when the gates open and video this for us. Once you have done this and presented a video of dogs not leaving the starting gates.......we can go the next step. If you can't do this.......well that ends your entire claim in one swoop. |
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