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Old 22nd November 2016, 03:34 PM   #321
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Old 22nd November 2016, 04:06 PM   #322
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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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Old 22nd November 2016, 05:05 PM   #323
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Originally Posted by Michel H View Post
I heard a dog bark with amusement and excitation. So, I stopped typing, I raised my arm, and pointed towards him/her, and the window, and the barking immediately stopped, even though, on my sixth floor, I couldn't see the dog, and the dog couldn't see me.
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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Old 22nd November 2016, 06:02 PM   #324
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Originally Posted by Matthew Ellard View Post
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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So was the dog amused because he could hear what you were typing? Is that your claim?
The dog began barking a few seconds after I had written ' the word I wrote and surrounded was "automobile" '. I suspect this was no accident, that he chose his/her moment, shortly after I had revealed the correct answer (this was of course an important part of my post). I cannot, however, be 100% sure of this.
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Just so we know, you think you are telepathic because once, a dog stopped barking? Can you repeat that "experiment"?
I often make these observations of telepathic dogs, so this is something that's very much repeatable.
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Old 22nd November 2016, 07:48 PM   #325
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Originally Posted by Michel H View Post
The dog began barking a few seconds after I had written ' the word I wrote and surrounded was "automobile" '. I suspect this was no accident, that he chose his/her moment, shortly after I had revealed the correct answer (this was of course an important part of my post). I cannot, however, be 100% sure of this.

I often make these observations of telepathic dogs, so this is something that's very much repeatable.
Again I stress, To you it's apparent, the reality of the situation is as usual the polar opposite.

Why not record this "apparent" phenomenon, If anything it be a start as your 0% in tests so far.
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Old 22nd November 2016, 08:09 PM   #326
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Originally Posted by Matthew Ellard
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"?
Originally Posted by Michel H View Post
The dog began barking a few seconds after I had written ' the word I wrote and surrounded was "automobile" '. I suspect this was no accident, that he chose his/her moment, shortly after I had revealed the correct answer (this was of course an important part of my post). I cannot, however, be 100% sure of this.
You are now claiming two totally different things.

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.


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I often make these observations of telepathic dogs, so this is something that's very much repeatable.
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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Old 22nd November 2016, 08:17 PM   #327
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Originally Posted by Matthew Ellard View Post
You are now claiming two totally different things.

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"?
I suspect the truth is closer to, A dog was barking outside while he was making his recent failing test, At some point the dog stopped and because Michel can and will contort events into his narrative he took that a s a sign the dog heard his thoughts.
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Old 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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Old 23rd November 2016, 05:54 AM   #329
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Originally Posted by DuvalHMFIC View Post
Oddly enough, I thought of Kate Upton riding a rhombus shaped skateboard. Do I score any points?
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Well, if your answer can be vaguely fitted to one of the answers then the round peg will be relentlessly hammered into the square hole and considered a hit. If not you will be declared insincere and discarded. The only way that ANYONE walks away from this game with any honour is by refusing to play, as others have said it is better not to encourage this delusion.

(Nb. I was was going to give an example of how your obviously joke answer could be fitted to one of the options but I don't want to risk being coincidentally right).
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I do not think my latest test on this forum:

was a failure, and I would like to explain why.

First of all, the word I wrote and surrounded was "automobile". The sentence I used to produce the hash mentioned above was:
The word iz closely related to "car" and starts with §è the letter "a".
(a little note here: Right after I wrote "The sentence I used to produce" above [two lines ago], I heard a dog bark with amusement and excitation. So, I stopped typing, I raised my arm, and pointed towards him/her, and the window, and the barking immediately stopped, even though, on my sixth floor, I couldn't see the dog, and the dog couldn't see me).

To my great regret, nobody answered clearly one of the four possible answers of this test. However, Yeggster said:
, which resembles "You have circled an automobile". Therefore, it is fair to say (it seems to me) that he suggested the correct answer, rather than giving it clearly.

DuvalHMFIC, who gave an answer related to the correct one in the previous test (link) said:

Like when fagin answered "train" instead of "automobile" in the first "automobile- boat - plane - submarine" test I did on this forum (link), I believe it is fair to say that DuvalHMFIC's answer is related to the correct one, because a skateboard is a simple wheeled ground vehicle. In addition, a rhombus is a quadrilateral, like (roughly) a car (and unlike planes, submarines, and most boats). So, I think DuvalHMFIC would indeed probably deserve a few points if these tests gave points.

p0lka replied:

Hedgehogs are terrestrial four-legged animals, and are therefore more closely related to automobiles than to boats, planes or submarines (he didn't answer a bird or a fish for example - aquatic birds like ducks or swans might be reminiscent of boats).


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Old 23rd November 2016, 06:22 AM   #330
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IIRC, Kate Upton has two very nice flotation devices, which makes DuvalHMFIC's answer more related to 'boat'.

Also, motorboating
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Old 23rd November 2016, 07:21 AM   #331
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Originally Posted by AdMan View Post
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.
Michel's "barking dog" story is, to me, the dog that didn't bark- the clue that either he's having us all on, or having himself on in such a way that nothing anybody says here can fix it; either way, not worth responding to.
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Old 23rd November 2016, 07:48 AM   #332
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Michel's "barking dog" story is, to me, the dog that didn't bark- the clue that either he's having us all on, or having himself on in such a way that nothing anybody says here can fix it; either way, not worth responding to.
If this is all the tale of some shaggy dog, I stand in addled awe of the perseverance and longevity of the con. After a point, a Troll becomes Ouroboros; we can leave it to dine on regurgitation.
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Old 23rd November 2016, 08:19 AM   #333
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If this is all the tale of some shaggy dog, I stand in addled awe of the perseverance and longevity of the con. After a point, a Troll becomes Ouroboros; we can leave it to dine on regurgitation.
I like that- a story that's all scatter-shot build with no real reveal. Delusion or purposeful, pointless either way.
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Old 23rd November 2016, 12:33 PM   #334
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IIRC, Kate Upton has two very nice flotation devices, which makes DuvalHMFIC's answer more related to 'boat'.

Also, motorboating
That's so much better than the lame justification I was going use (and WAAAAY better than Michel's!).
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Old 23rd November 2016, 02:58 PM   #335
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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.
Neither do yet it keeps happening.
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Old 23rd November 2016, 03:15 PM   #336
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Originally Posted by Michel H View Post
The dog began barking a few seconds after I had written ' the word I wrote and surrounded was "automobile" '. I suspect this was no accident, that he chose his/her moment, shortly after I had revealed the correct answer (this was of course an important part of my post). I cannot, however, be 100% sure of this.

I often make these observations of telepathic dogs, so this is something that's very much repeatable.
Sorry. Not playing your game. You are not telepathic. Nobody hears your thoughts, not even dogs.
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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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Old 24th November 2016, 05:42 PM   #338
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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.
...and all the cats and dogs.

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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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Originally Posted by DuvalHMFIC View Post
When do I get my prize?
You already got it:
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... So, I think DuvalHMFIC would indeed probably deserve a few points if these tests gave points.
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You might get a better prize if your answer improves.
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You might get a better prize if your answer improves.
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I noticed, from their barking, that they felt somewhat offended and slightly upset by that statement I made. I am used to these telepathic phenomena, they happen all the time, and on a worldwide scale.

It is your turn to answer direct questions.

How do you know all the dogs around the world "heard you" thinking about dogs?
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Originally Posted by Matthew Ellard View Post
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How do you know all the dogs around the world "heard you" thinking about dogs?
When I said:
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... I am used to these telepathic phenomena, they happen all the time, and on a worldwide scale.
I was not writing specifically about dogs, I was writing "in general" (actually, I don't recall any very-long-distance telepathy effect or event in connection with dogs).
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I noticed, from their barking, (ie Dogs) that they felt somewhat offended and slightly upset by that statement I made. I am used to these telepathic phenomena, they happen all the time, and on a worldwide scale.
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I was not writing specifically about dogs, I was writing "in general" (actually, I don't recall any very-long-distance telepathy effect or event in connection with dogs).
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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Originally Posted by Matthew Ellard View Post
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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?
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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Do you sometimes have the odd impression of "knowing what I think"?
Then, member im replied:
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Well, I nearly always know what you think ...
(https://answers.yahoo.com/question/i...3134559AAR70yj )
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:
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Hi, I would like to invite you to participate in a (new) simple telepathy test.
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At about 22:47 on this Thursday August 22 (Brussels, Belgium time), I wrote carefully one of the four numbers: "1", "2", "3", "4" on my sheet of paper, and I surrounded it with a circle. Then, I wrote it again twice.

I shall repeat this number from time to time during this test.

It was selected using this random number generator: http://www.random.org/integers/ .

I ask you to write it here (if you think you know it, even with a doubt). You may also answer "I don't know".

So, your answer should be one of the four numbers: "1", "2", "3", "4", or "I don't know".

A comment might be useful, but is not indispensable.

Please note that the number I wrote has no meaning, it was just produced by the generator.

A MD5 hash code for a complicated sentence containing the number I ask you to telepathically guess (like, for example: "the number to guess is 5 f4315d 3b1fcd81") is:
e5ca98da86a6e4c582700847e587c3ac

It was obtained on this website:
http://www.md5hashgenerator.com/ .

I shall reveal the actual sentence I used to produce this MD5 hash at the end of the test, after I have revealed the number I ask you to guess. This way, you'll be able to verify my number.

Thank you for participating.

Note: I do these tests because I believe I have a particular tendency to (telepathically) communicate my thoughts to others, and I am seeking to prove this through online telepathy experiments.
About 30 minutes later, Ashles commented:
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Well this is certainly one of the most robustly controlled experiments I have encountered.
About 15 hours later, Tiktaalik replied:
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4

I know it. I'm absolutely sure. I feel it inside of me, and if you haven't felt it, you don't know what it's like. If you had felt it, you would know it was 4, so if you think it is not 4, you have obviously not felt it. 4 is the one true number.
Her number was correct.

Much more recently (in September of this year), I launched a new test:
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Hi, I invite you to participate in a new, simple, telepathy test, of the kind you may have seen before. I shall also ask you to answer a complementary question, which is difficult, but important for me (and perhaps also important beyond me)

At about 9:00 p.m. on this Friday September 9 (Brussels, Belgium time), I wrote carefully one of the four words: "automobile", "boat", "plane", and "submarine" on my sheet of paper, and I surrounded it with a rough ellipse. Then, I wrote it again twice.

I shall repeat this word from time to time during this test.

I ask you to write it here (if you think you know it, even with a doubt). You may also answer "I don't know".
...
cullennz answered correctly "plane":
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... I'll go for plane ...
After I revealed his answer was correct, cullennz reacted:
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Think it's pretty simple.

I'm psychic and chose to read Michael H's mind. ...
(link: http://www.internationalskeptics.com...d.php?t=311768 )

Interestingly, even a moderator of this forum (once) replied:
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I am seeing a 4 very clearly. It's almost as though I had written it myself.
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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How many people who stated they were equally sure of the answer were wrong?
And how many who were counted as hits would, when asked, say they were being sarcastic and mocking the idea of telepathy?
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... 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.
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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Originally Posted by Hokulele View Post
How many people who stated they were equally sure of the answer were wrong?
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.
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And how many who were counted as hits would, when asked, say they were being sarcastic and mocking the idea of telepathy?
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.
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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?
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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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......
I think it is certainly remarkable that some people would reply:
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4

I know it. I'm absolutely sure. I feel it inside of me, and if you haven't felt it, you don't know what it's like. If you had felt it, you would know it was 4, so if you think it is not 4, you have obviously not felt it. 4 is the one true number.
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I am seeing a 4 very clearly. It's almost as though I had written it myself.
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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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.
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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Originally Posted by Jack by the hedge View Post
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.
I think this second method is much better than the first one, but let us not forget that the real bosses on this planet are the human beings, not dogs. So, however imperfect humans may be, we telepaths have to try to deal with them
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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......
Is this rhetorical?
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I think this second method is much better than the first one, but let us not forget that the real bosses on this planet are the human beings, not dogs. So, however imperfect humans may be, we telepaths have to try to deal with them


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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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.
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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.
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/i...3134559AAR70yj
That link is not one of your experiments and the person you quote directly says they are "cold reading" you, which is a standard theatrical magic trick and not telepathy. Can you link us to any post of yours, on any forum that results in a successful experiment? If you cannot do this, then it is obvious there is no evidence that humans across the world can hear your thoughts as you claim. Can you offer any counter argument to this logic?


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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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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.
So therefore, as you claim
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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And you are astounded and consider this evidence of telepathy and not that statistics has some relevancy in such a test......
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 View Post
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.
Here is an example of a statistical calculation that I posted on this forum:
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... It may be interesting to introduce a credibility threshold, equal to CR=5, for exemple. Then, GregInAustin's answer (CR=2) is eliminated, and I obtain 3+4 = 7 ("strongly") credible answers for the two tests (on this forum, so far), all of which are numerically correct. The probability for this is equal to p = (1/4)7 = 6.10 x 10-5 (assuming a 25% probability of answering correctly, for each answer). This is of course highly significant, but there are uncertainties related to the fact I assign credibilities while knowing if the answers are correct or not. ...
and here are some comments about the physical aspect:
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Yes, I have actually studied the physical aspect.

The power of the brain is approximately 20 Watt (see hypertextbook.com/facts/2001/JacquelineLing.shtml).
On the other hand, with 5 W (radiated) power, ham radio operators can make voice contact with "the other side of the world" (see ham1, ham2).
It is possible to make telegraphic contact with the other side of the world (using for example the Morse code) with only 500 mW (ham2). According to wikipedia, the current record for a "QRP" connection (this means "low power amateur radio connection") is 1 microWatt for 1,650 miles on 10 meter (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QRP_operation#Philosophy).

The human brain has gamma oscillations of frequencies up to 200 Hz, see High-frequency gamma oscillations and human brain mapping with electrocorticography. There are probably other, much higher frequencies of electromagnetic waves, which occur when electromagnetic pulses created by cerebral activity and neuronal action potentials bounce back and forth between the "walls of the brain", in this way you create a simple high frequency oscillator, which then may get modulated by the gamma waves.

It is possible that our neurons are like extra-ordinarily sensitive transistors, which "trigger" when a well defined voltage threshold is reached (this triggers the action potential) and can amplify. And since there are so many of them (about one hundred billion), you presumably end up with an extraordinarily biological device for detecting electromagnetic waves in your skull, which will detect primarily waves of the "right wavelengths" for creating a sustained oscillation, which are waves creating by other brains. 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.
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Not necessarily, think about the example of a fire emitting thermal radiation I already quoted. Is every radio designer in the world scratching their head near a fire (or any source of heat)? No. Is a simple fire (or any source of heat) emitting thermal, and therefore electromagnetic waves in the radio frequency range? Yes.
Physics teaches us that, whenever an ion (for example a sodium Na+ ion in the brain) gets accelerated, electromagnetic radiation gets emitted. On the other hand, in the brain, during an action potential, sodium ions rush into the neuron, and they are accelerated because of the voltage difference between the interior and exterior of the cell. So we can safely predict that cerebral activity produces electromagnetic radiation.
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You should perhaps have a look at the book "The Radiating Brain", by Ferdinando Cazzamalli: http://documents.theblackvault.com/d...atingBrain.pdf , or at this article:
Radiometer measures temperature in premature babies' brains (2000)
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/college.asp?P=2512
(microwave radiation from the brain recently measured, but they don't seem to have extended their measurements to the shortwave frequencies)
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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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Here is an example of a statistical calculation that I posted on this forum:
"This is of course highly significant, but there are uncertainties related to the fact I assign credibilities while knowing if the answers are correct or not. .."
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.


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and here are some comments about the physical aspect:
"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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