From: Alex Ramonsky (alex@ramonsky.com)
Date: Tue Feb 05 2002 - 03:04:39 MST
I have tried this experiment. (Making something happen by having sex whilst
thinking about a weird mass of squiggles that once made up a coherent
(genetic) sentence). We did make something happen. It was a baby. Isn't that
magic?
Ramonsky
----- Original Message -----
From: "Damien Broderick" <d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 06:49
Subject: Re: Gods
> At 09:52 PM 2/4/02 -0700, chesh wrote:
>
> >I think most people
> >would describe making something happen by having sex while thinking about
> a weird
> >mass of squiggles that once made up a coherent sentance is magic.
>
> Maybe most people would, because most people, sadly, don't know their arse
> from their elbow. But most rational and scientifically informed people
> would describe this claim as delusional (or playful).
>
> But we needn't argue about this. Just make it so. Here's a challenge that
I
> usually offer to self-proclaimed psychics and precognitive `remote
> viewers': cool, win Lotto next week, using your mojo. Never happens.
Funny,
> that.
>
> Damien Broderick
>
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