Essays on Extrasensory

A section of psychologists holds preposterous assertions of having first-hand evidence on extra-sensory perception, for instance, dreaming about something that actually happens later and foreseeing the future through mind reading (Plate & Joyce, 2013).The ideology of extra sensory perception was prompted by J. Rhine, a psychologist at the Duke University, by denoting physic abilities that include telepathy and clairvoyance. He elaborates the perception’s trans-temporal operation as being precognition or retrocognition in nature. However, most psychologists have refuted these claims asserting that the concept cannot be tested in the realm of science. Ingrained in a series of retrospective experiments ...

Introduction

David Eagleman’s (2015) book entitled The Brain details scientific discoveries about the way the human brain processes information. The book details the ways in which one’s sensory capabilities and sensory processing activities formulates the way in which one interprets the external environment. It is the combination of sensory capabilities and the processing of sensory input that is largely responsible for the “reality” that one experiences (Eagleman, 2015). The external environment or what humanity would collectively call “reality” is not necessarily what truly exists. Reality may in fact be more subjective or internal than previously thought. Therefore, one ...

A psychic is a person that confesses to having the abilities to perceive information that is concealed from normal senses. He/she perceives this information through extrasensory perceptions. Psychic abilities are also known as the sixth sense or extrasensory perception. There are no tangible evidences that psychic abilities exist, and the scientific community does not recognize psychic abilities of any kind. Scientific investigations have done numerous investigations into the validity of human psychic abilities. Many investigations have produced statistical results which conclude that there a million to one chances against psychic happening by chance alone, they also concluded that a few have been ...