ludzkie-ciekawostki: Telepathy

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Telepathy (from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle) 'distant' and πάθος/-πάθεια (páthos/-pátheia) 'feeling, perception, passion, affliction, experience') is the purported vicarious transmission of information from one person's mind to another's without using any known human sensory channels or physical interaction. The term was coined in 1882 by the classical scholar Frederic W. H. Myers, a founder of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR), and has remained more popular than the earlier expression thought-transference. Telepathy experiments have historically been criticized for a lack of proper controls and repeatability. There is no good evidence that telepathy exists, and the topic is generally c…

Evidence: 32 • authority: 88

Aldous Huxley, Telepathy and the Decentring of Personality in the Novel of Ideas. This chapter sees Huxley’s firm belief in telepathy as the spur for innovation in his literature. In part thanks to a friendship with J. B. Rhine, whose research at Duke University convinced a wide audience that telepathic phenomena were real, Huxley comes to doubt the limits of the self. The chapter links a process of ‘decentration’ Huxley suggests can assist telepathic transmission with a decentration in Huxley’s literary rendering of personality. As the integral, individuated character is seen as false by Huxley, the development of ideas replaces the development of the individual as the structuring force in…