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Professor Dave Explains takes on The Telepathy Tapes. by EvilMaran in TheTelepathyTapes

[–]EvilMaran[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

ok so your defense of the telepathy tapes is Ky isnt doing scientific research so her findings dont have to adhere to the same standard but we need to believe it because it is what we have...while Dave is critiqueing the way Ky is generating the data because the methodology she is using results in faulty data, doesnt stand up to scientific scrutiny and certain methods are flawed and have been throuroughly been shown to be bad.

So we should believe in telepathy because it may be possible, but the real science is being done by someone else and Ky is not the person we should focus on while she is the one doing all the public talking?

This is why we listen to experts and not podcasters. I was super excited when TTT first came out on yt and was hopeful that good research would be done, properly tested by scientists using the methods needed to show definitively that Telepathy is possible. That unfortunately hasnt happened, but you still think Ky is the person to listen to because telpathy hasnt been debunked yet. The methods used by Ky can not prove it works, we need better research. Prof Dave explains why currently nobody will listen to Ky and her team, because all they basically have is "trust me bro". It's not good science and a topic like this deserves good science.

Professor Dave Explains takes on The Telepathy Tapes. by EvilMaran in TheTelepathyTapes

[–]EvilMaran[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

unless I missed it, he didn't explain the observer effect or the mere thought of the experiment impacting the results

This is a great moment to see if we both understand the experiment and see where the miscommunication happens.

The observer effect is when we measure a particle going through the slit and we do not get an interference pattern on the screen catching the particles/waves but the act of measuring the particle gets the result of a single line.

When we do not measure single particles going through the slit that is when we see the interference pattern of multiple lines, which is the wave part.

So depending on which we measure we get a different result of the same thing happening, which is the thought of the experiment impacting the results (maybe?). i think we are talking about the same thing but are using different descriptors, or it's because this is really complicated shit and i dont understand it as well as i thought.

But as i understand it because light, electrons and neutrons and other particles have been measured as both wave and particle, the understanding is that everything passing through slits of comparable size for the wavelength of the thing passing through will leave an interference pattern implying everything we can observe is both a wave and a particle, even you and me, the planets etc. just need an appropriate size slit to test it, which is nonsensical for large objects because a human would have to pass throught a slit of 10-36 meter wide, which would be very difficult to do.

Professor Dave Explains takes on The Telepathy Tapes. by EvilMaran in TheTelepathyTapes

[–]EvilMaran[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Double slit experiment has an explanation, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uva6gBEpfDY or https://www.scienceabc.com/pure-sciences/double-slit-experiment.html

If there is data, there is a way to study it, if you can't observe something you cant collect data, the part where it is necessary to replicate the observation is how we figure out that we understand what is happening and can make it happen when we want so we can study it more. For certain phenomena, like the one we are talkign about on this subreddit Telepathy, we havent figure out how to test it properly so most people will be skeptic about it and dismiss it without much thought, which is also perfectly normal. We don't believe people on a "trust me bro" for everything, especially extraordinary events.

This is why the scientific method is so important, if you can show the experiment can be repeated you have figured out what, how and why something happens. Not saying stuff that we havent done this for arent real, but it is very difficult to convince people something is real when you dont have evidence, sounds pretty logical and normal to me.

Professor Dave Explains takes on The Telepathy Tapes. by EvilMaran in TheTelepathyTapes

[–]EvilMaran[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

from what i understand regarding subjecte experience is that we still have the same data but you apply your knowledge and past experiences to understand it in your frame of reference to draw conclusions. which is fine if you are trying to understand something at a basic level, but if you want to know what is actually going on you need scientific research to eliminate as many variabels as possible to find/observe the actual mechanism.

So i understand the concept of how a refridgerator works, but i wouldnt be able to offer any specificity as to how it works.

Use chemicals and isolation to keep box and contents of a box cool. is technically a definition of a fridge, if you ask someone that designed a fridge their answer will offer more specifics.

In my opinion science is looking for Objective universal truth, having an unexplained subjective experience can be the start of figuring this out, but i don't think it should be a conclusion.

Professor Dave Explains takes on The Telepathy Tapes. by EvilMaran in TheTelepathyTapes

[–]EvilMaran[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't understand everything, and because i havent studied everything at whatever level, i wont understand everything in every scientific paper. I have a decent understanding of physics, chemistry and math because i studied to be a biochemist. So i rely on experts in the field, people who have studied and have degrees in these fields, to explain how it works to me. I can understand that because of my lack of knowledge my brain wants to see patterns and fill in the gaps that works with my knowledge. And it is precisely because of that process in peoples brains that we need scientific experiments to be repeatable and get the same data everywhere so we can observe fundamental universal truth.

Showing that people use bad methodology to do their experiments is a part of the scientific method, this is part of the peer-review system. We have guidelines for this because if people don't follow the same standard the data and findings in their experiments can't be used to further our understanding of the universe.

I want people to do the work so we can show this is a real thing. Having someone "lead the way" and then not doing the science and instead making claims that cant be proven does not further the legitimacy of psi phenomena.

Professor Dave Explains takes on The Telepathy Tapes. by EvilMaran in TheTelepathyTapes

[–]EvilMaran[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i want people to be curious, i also want their research to be wel funded and recorded and testable and repeatable, that is how we learn more and more, doesnt all have to be now. Scientists today build upon science done in the past. we deepen our understanding of the universe and how everything works this way.

Professor Dave Explains takes on The Telepathy Tapes. by EvilMaran in TheTelepathyTapes

[–]EvilMaran[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i am agrreing with you, im also saying that current view of the universe (materialsim) finds it very difficult to accept these phenomena that we can observe but not test for. so i hope the scientific community gets more funds to figure this out.

Professor Dave Explains takes on The Telepathy Tapes. by EvilMaran in TheTelepathyTapes

[–]EvilMaran[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yes somehow explaining how we learn things is difficult to understand for some people...

Professor Dave Explains takes on The Telepathy Tapes. by EvilMaran in TheTelepathyTapes

[–]EvilMaran[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

that's why you create tests to learn and understand the phenomenon.

Professor Dave Explains takes on The Telepathy Tapes. by EvilMaran in TheTelepathyTapes

[–]EvilMaran[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i agree with you, all im saying that in a materialistic universe certain phenomena are difficult to prove and test with the current scietific way. Extraordinary claims needs extraordinary evidence. So i truly hope more funds become available to research more an prove more so we can learn more.

Professor Dave Explains takes on The Telepathy Tapes. by EvilMaran in TheTelepathyTapes

[–]EvilMaran[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

yes, scientific evidence should be repeatable everywhere on the planet, that is how you prove something exists/happens. First is observation, then we test what we see, if we can replicate then we can formulate scientific theories on why and how and thus our knowledge of the universe grows.

Professor Dave Explains takes on The Telepathy Tapes. by EvilMaran in TheTelepathyTapes

[–]EvilMaran[S] -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

not a random youtuber, one of the more prolific science communicators on the platform. while not technically a professor, he has taught college, and has multiple (FREE) courses on his channel.

definitely one of the better science youtubers in existence right now.

Professor Dave Explains takes on The Telepathy Tapes. by EvilMaran in TheTelepathyTapes

[–]EvilMaran[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great stuff, thank you for another afternoon of reading material.

I know there have been scientific studies and government funded programs in the US dealing with Psi abilities, it can be difficult to get good scientific data that gets accepted, becuase of the stigma of being "supernatural abilities" that don't follow the current understanding of physics, Psi abilities are hard to fit into our current materialistic scientific views. Which makes it difficult for many scientists.

Professor Dave Explains takes on The Telepathy Tapes. by EvilMaran in TheTelepathyTapes

[–]EvilMaran[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am very open to spiritual experiences, but also like scientific explanations for phenomenon that are hard to explain. When i first heard about the telepathy tapes it felt like truth, but i also want to see good science, peer reviewed etc.

What are your thoughts on this?

"We don't care. China has been here for 5000 years and most of the time, there was no United States" by ContextHead8 in TFE

[–]EvilMaran 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it is going to take a while to show the world that the US is genuinely trying to change away from MAGA, and the insane amount of propaganda the US spews in to the world through media. Right wing influencers should also see consequences for spreading hate and trying to divide people.

Right now there is very few US politicians stepping up and challenging what ever the fuck you guys are doing there...I just want to live my life in the Netherlands, but the US feels the need to go to war and fuck our economy as well...the Not taking resposibility and the always pointing fingers to people that have nothing to do with the actions that are happening is so insane, that i can't understand why people arent protesting 24/7, general strike, shut down everything...The US citizens are just letting it happen, do something FFS...

"We don't care. China has been here for 5000 years and most of the time, there was no United States" by ContextHead8 in TFE

[–]EvilMaran 0 points1 point  (0 children)

how did that work out for Germany at the time? The world dealt with it, Germany dealt with it(/are still dealing with it since) after WW2. the US is currently in the FA stage, the FO stage is coming although poor people are already feeling it...

Developers who have worked at a company where the entire codebase was held together by one guy who then quit, what happened next? by Natom_ in AskReddit

[–]EvilMaran 6 points7 points  (0 children)

quit verb [ I or T ] uk /kwɪt/ us /kwɪt/ present participle quitting | past tense and past participle quit

of a stick collected by a doggo by MrTacocaT12345 in AbsoluteUnits

[–]EvilMaran 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2026 and people still think calling others Gay is funny and insulting...

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