{"id":474,"date":"2009-05-22T09:33:24","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T13:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stacyhorn.com\/unbelievable\/?p=474"},"modified":"2009-05-22T09:33:24","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T13:33:24","slug":"freeman-dyson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/?p=474","title":{"rendered":"Freeman Dyson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dyson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-475\" title=\"dyson\" src=\"http:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dyson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;If one believes, as I do, that ESP exists but is scientifically untestable, one must believe that the scope of science is limited.&#8221; &#8211; Freeman Dyson, in a Foreword to <em>Extraordinary Knowing: Science, Skepticism, and the Inexplicable Powers of the Human Mind<\/em>, by Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, Ph.D.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what to make of this quote by theoretical physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson.  Shouldn&#8217;t it be, &#8220;is scientifically untestable <em><strong>today<\/strong><\/em>,&#8221; (and I&#8217;d add perhaps) and that &#8220;the scope of science is limited <em><strong>today<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;?<\/p>\n<p>Dyson says ESP is untestable because\u00a0emotion is so inextricably tied to ESP that a controlled scientific experiment for ESP is forever out of our reach.\u00a0 \u201cThe experiment necessarily excludes the human emotions that make ESP possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If one believes, as I do, that ESP exists but is scientifically untestable, one must believe that the scope of science is limited.&#8221; &#8211; Freeman &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piV6u-7E","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}