Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site imsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!rlgvax!cvl!elsie!imsvax!rcc From: rcc@imsvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sci,net.philosophy Subject: Re: Mind and Brain and Ki Message-ID: <221@imsvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Aug-84 13:25:14 EDT Article-I.D.: imsvax.221 Posted: Thu Aug 9 13:25:14 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Aug-84 00:37:00 EDT References: <215@imsvax.UUCP> <118@mouton.UUCP> <677@opus.UUCP> Organization: IMS Inc, Rockville MD Lines: 40 [me] >>> On the other hand, if he says, "This is true, but I can't prove it.", >>> then I'll laugh in his face and tell him to move to net.religion :-). >>> Ray Chen [somebody else] >>A lot of people are saying "PSI does not exist," as if they're experts >>or something. What if I say electrons don't exist because I've never seen >>any evidence for them?... >>When you people say PSI (and all that other mumbo-jumbo) doesn't exist, >>how do you explain (to yourself) the existence of acupuncture, all those >>wierd things the asians do with karate, aikido, ta-chien... [Dick Dunn] >Look carefully at what Ray was postulating: If someone says, "This is true >but I can't prove it", you're safe to laugh in his face. If instead he >says, "Something is happening here and I don't know what it is..." [do >you, Mr. Jones--oops, sorry!:-], as is generally the case with, say, >acupuncture, then you say, "gee, yeah, I hope that investigation turns up >something soon." BRAVO !! Thank you, Dick, for the eloquent defense. That's *exactly* what I was trying to get across. (And that's all at the net. Back to you, Jim ...) -- The preceding message was brought to you by -- Ray Chen UUCP: {umcp-cs!eneevax || seismo!rlgvax!elsie}!imsvax!rcc USnail: Integrated Microcomputer Systems, Inc. Suite 400 6100 Executive Blvd. Rockville, MD 20852