Psychic experiences: Psychic illusions
Skeptical Inquirer 16:367-376 (1992)
| Abstract | Why do so many people believe in psychic phenomena? Because they have psychic experiences. And why do they have psychic experiences? Because such experiences are an inevitable consequence of the way we think. I suggest that, like visual illusions, they are the price we pay for a generally very effective relationship with a massively complex world | |||||||||
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