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Originally Posted by DaveMatrix
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I assume your point is, once again, that we don't know everything and that what we find in the future might be completely different from what we're capable of conceptualizing. In relation to this discussion, however, I don't see how it's relevant. Scientific progress has been made when something (or nothing) is observed that doesn't fit the mold that we have. Einstein wouldn't have had to come up with relativity if everything we observed fit Newton's model.
My point continues to be this: under controlled conditions in peer-reviewed studies, nothing has been observed that indicates that ESP exists. Common belief in the scientific community is that ESP does not exist. The observations and the theory are consistent, therefore no new theory of how things work has to be proposed. If new evidence arises that is inconsistent with the belief that ESP does not exist, then a new theory has to be proposed, tested, refined, and possibly replaced. If, in the study of the brain, something is found that does something but cannot be mapped to an internal body function, then the answer may be that it processes a sense that we currently do not know or understand.
I am confident that ESP does not exist. I have been wrong about things before , and new evidence has surfaced in the past that forced me to change my way of thinking. Until hard evidence indicates otherwise, I will maintain my stance.