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I see the human brain as a machine designed for predicting the future: we make plans for ourselves and the ones around us, we think of dangers that could befall us, we imagine things that could be, we plan out interactions, and we do all the things that make us human with the implicit assumption that there’s going to be a future. However, this machine wasn’t built by some mystical process that can’t be in principle understood, it was natural selection. That explains why we jump at shadows, we’re scared by weird noises, and get funny feelings randomly. We forget all the times we were wrong and harp on the ones that were right because our ancestors that had it in their genes to do this survived more often.
I don’t believe in ESP because I have never seen anyone do it repeatedly in a controlled environment. Discounting the charlatans I think everyone else who thinks they have ESP is pretty much covered under the explanation above.
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