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THE FUTURE IS COMING (AND SO AM I)
Dec. 9th, 2010 10:58 amITEM: Pornography can help you predict the future.
Possibly. That’s one of the conclusions from a paper by Professor Daryl Bem of Cornell University that covers nine separate experiments to find evidence of “psi” – i.e. precognition or premonition.
One of the experiments involved subjects predicting whether the next picture to appear on a video screen would be blank or “couples engaged in nonviolent but explicit consensual sexual acts”.
Which should make nice background material for my upcoming Rule 34 version of Minority Report.
Yes.
Science is sexy,
This is dF
Possibly. That’s one of the conclusions from a paper by Professor Daryl Bem of Cornell University that covers nine separate experiments to find evidence of “psi” – i.e. precognition or premonition.
One of the experiments involved subjects predicting whether the next picture to appear on a video screen would be blank or “couples engaged in nonviolent but explicit consensual sexual acts”.
Subjects were able to predict the appearance of the pornographic picture 53.1% of the time--significantly above the statistical average of 50%.
That number, while low, is significant enough to imply something more significant than a simple statistical anomaly. Bem's conclusion: there is a “precognitive detection of erotic stimuli” and a “precognitive avoidance of negative stimuli.”
That number, while low, is significant enough to imply something more significant than a simple statistical anomaly. Bem's conclusion: there is a “precognitive detection of erotic stimuli” and a “precognitive avoidance of negative stimuli.”
Which should make nice background material for my upcoming Rule 34 version of Minority Report.
Yes.
Science is sexy,
This is dF
