Hey guys.
I was reading this and I have to say I am a bit of a skeptic (Someone has to be I guess but I have studied enough psychology and physics to make me skeptical of this. Studies to replicate the initial findings form the 1970s have all failed to replicate)
But here is the thing. An online community like Steemit should be in a position to research this using the power of the crowd to examine remote viewing. Assuming that people have psychic ability and using a crowd sourced approach I can see an experiment, where a random object is hidden, and Steemit folks then remote sense it.
This could work by asking people to draw what they perceive, posting an image of their drawings in comments
Next, after two weeks of running this event - the item will be revealed. Any posts posted after the reveal date don't count.
We then need a way of compiling the images remote viewers draw and rating them by how similar the images are to the target. This should give some way of assessing whether the results are purely random or skewed in favor, or against the view that objects can be remotely sensed. At least it would give some sort of baseline in terms of what percentage of people get anywhere close to a match.
No doubt there are potential flaws with the above design (for example raters may decide that all images are close matches, which could skew the results in favor of a high level of similarity). One could get the images rated for similarity by independent people who are blind to the purpose of the study (They would effectively act to provide an analysis of similarity so as to avoid self-fulfilling prophesy during the similarity rating process).
I am happy to start the ball rolling if there are enough people interested in examining this in a more empirical way? Who's up for it?
V