Telepathy or mind reading is the transmission of thoughts from one human to another human by means other than the bodies physical senses. Telepathy also implies that we have sensing capabilities other than the physical senses of seeing, hearing, feeling, etc. Which enable us to sense and perceive the mental thoughts and feelings of another person, in other words we have something people like to call extrasensory perception (ESP) abilities. In Breaking the Light Barrier Using Telepathy it states the root word "tele" is from the Greek word meaning far off or distance and the root word "pathy" is from the Greek word meaning to feel, so therefore telepathy would mean to feel something from a distance. Some people think that telepathy is a fraud and that it could never happen, while others think the people simply know each other very well and can predict what the other will do or say. Still others think it can and does happen every day. This paper will look at many points of view and how many people are fooled into believing in telepathy.
Telepathy expresses itself in many ways but as a whole it must be understood in perspective. The main means of telepathy communication can be described using feelings, sensations and images. It is the brain of the receiver that learns to associate, possibly even with words, with a particular sensation and feeling and imagery introduced into an interaction (3). It can take years to adapt to telepathy, it does not happen just like that. Along the way many experiences appear common to those who adapt to telepathy in some way. The experiences are highly individual due to the fact that the human brain in everyone is individual and distinct as a human fingerprint.
In a seminar on telepathy by William B. Robertson, he stated that telepathy is not something passed onto a person like a science or schoolbook study. It is something that every person has the ability to do just as a child has the ability to talk. The child must learn how to talk with the air, the throat, and the sounds, while to be telepathic a person must learn how to visualize what they want to put into words rather then speak them.
Telepathy is one symptom to indicate mental disorders which makes it hard to research it well. This is what may happen, a person who has lived in a childhood environment that is not ideal, such as one parent was consisten...
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...n the cards #4 and #12 all the rest said the were guessing for what was on the cards.
In conclusion, even though many people believe that mind reading is real this experiment has shown that people cannot read minds. Even though this is only one test and it does not test all people it has proven the hypothesis, because even though one person got all the shapes on the cards correct they stated that they were only guessing. If the tester were another person the results may have come out different because the other person may be able to transmit messages while the one giving this test obviously could not. It cannot be explained how subject ten got all the cards right but said they were only guessing.
After thinking it over it was decided that the experiment would be done with another testers and more subjects. The experiment was done the same way with the same cards. Three of the test subjects said they could see the cards they were numbers 7, 16, 23.
In conclusion to the second experiment one person could possibly read minds while the rest only guessed at the cards. Once again it was found that people cannot read minds despite the want to know what others are thinking.
This is a topic that was introduced over a century ago, but has not been taken serious until recently with the development of tests capable of testing whether or not the condition was real. Previously, scientists thought that this was a figment of the imagination, drug abuse, or in its most concrete form one of memory. As if seeing a number paired with a color, say in early childhood was the reason that a person paired them later on in life. There was also the theory that these people were very creative and when they said that they could taste a shape, it was only an unconventional metaphor.
In the article entitled, “An investigation of first-order false belief understanding of children with congenital profound visual impairment,” a detailed look at the development of ToM was performed. Theory of mind (ToM) is defined “as the ability to impute mental states to others and to interpret and predict behavior in terms of those mental states” (Green 1). In order to examine ToM, the study performed a series of false belief tests. False belief can also be explained as misunderstanding which connected to false reasoning. In the case of the children in this study, the false belief would be if they can correctly identify how another person would respond to a specific task, if that person had limited information that the children were previously made privy too. These tests are important because, as they article explains; the testing false belief is the most direct way to access if a person has a fully developed theory of mind (Dennett c...
Hold the 4th card up, ask the students, “What does the gray duckling become at the end of the story?”
For instances, in one study, volunteers were required to stare at a computer screen as different phrases quickly appeared and disappeared without their knowledge. These phrases such as “violent” and “elderly” influenced their minds when they complete different types of tasks, such as writing or walking. Their behaviors changed according to the flashing words because the unconscious mind was affected by it, even though they were unaware of these influences. Since their conscious minds were not able to pick up the words on the screen, they created reasoning with the knowledge they did have. As Daniel Gilbert stated, “ their brains quickly considered the facts they are aware and draw out the same kinds of plausible but mistaken inferences about themselves that an observer would probably draw about them” (131). Daniel Gilbert proves that the unconscious mind takes the knowledge one is aware of and creates a logical reasoning behind it, even if it is not true. When Daniel Gilbert says "mistaken inferences" he means that the person is unaware of the factors that influence one's behavior, thus creating a false sense of understanding. The volunteers believed their false reasoning, thus affecting the truth behind their
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Human mind is still a mystery to us all. It is hard to conclude on what
Furthermore, it does not give a clear explanation of how mind works; instead, it only argues that the mind is a non-physical thing since the laws of physics cannot break it down into particles to conclude how it works. Mind and body both exist, but they both are physical; in fact, it has been proven that the brain is responsible for the human behaviors. For example, the story of Phineas Gage tells us about the mind-body relationship, in which Gage was known to be a very friendly and smart person before head injury, but when he suffered a head injury that affected his brain, he turned to a mean person, who was completely opposite of the person his friends had known before ( Lawhead 83). This shows that the brain is directly responsible for the mind and the behaviors of a
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ability and himself. Finally, The Sealand Lady for her strong will on telepathy and finding it to be
It may seem ridiculous that we make decisions based on thoughts that we do not even know we are having, but it is certainly true. This test has really opened my eyes to the fact that although I considered myself very open-minded, even I have a slight bias in some regards. The most important lesson from this is that awareness is the key, and these biases will forever be engrained in our subconscious if we do not take the time to face them. Although I found this a tough pill to swallow, I and the people I meet henceforth will benefit from the knowledge I have gained
This is not understood without understanding language: the ever-changing medium by which human beings communicate ideas. Some might argue that this ability is what differentiates us from other animals. The function of this is to be able to understand each other, whether we are trying to say, “Look out, there’s a saber-toothed cat attempting to have you for dinner,” or, “My sweet darling, I will love you until my last dying breath.” This ability gives us a better chance at surviving; therefore, it has been passed on through the generations and underwent endless permutations.
Asch initiated his experiment by making one of the particpants at ease. He asked a serious of elementary questions where the four confederates answered them correctly so the fifth person also answered the question correct. This in sense gave the participant a false interpretation of the actual thinking behind Asch true experiment. The participants were asked to compare, identify and match one of three lines on the right card to the length of the line on the left card. This task was repeated several times to get a true picture of the data collated.
In understanding our social world we act as “intuitive scientists”’, the experimental study of social perception and cognition sets out to make generalizations about how people process information, relate, the important motives, meanings and social representations on how each of us processes information and operates in the world.
“Consciousness is defined as everything of which we are aware at any given time - our thoughts, feelings, sensations, and perceptions of the external environment. Physiological researchers have returned to the study of consciousness, in examining physiological rhythms, sleep, and altered states of consciousness (changes in awareness produced by sleep, meditation, hypnosis, and drugs)” (Wood, 2011, 169). There are five levels of consciousness; Conscious (sensing, perceiving, and choosing), Preconscious (memories that we can access), Unconscious ( memories that we can not access), Non-conscious ( bodily functions without sensation), and Subconscious ( “inner child,” self image formed in early childhood).
the same length. Control subjects with no exposure to a majority view had no trouble giving the correct answer. In other words the Asch experiment objective was to identify which of the three lines on a card were equal to the length of a comparison line. A few of the confederates were instructed to give the same wrong answer as the others. Asch had found that 76 percent of the subjects, who weren’t confederates, also ended up giving the same incorrect response even though the majority response was more than obvious it was wrong (M, Venkatesan: pg. 1,