>Option 0: Paranormal phenomena are not part of the world of physical phenomena at all; they do exist, but they come from a "spiritual world".
>- This is an option I added in response to some reactions I received on the previous version of this little essay. There still exist people who think that parts of our world simply disconnect from everything that we have been able to sort out and investigate systematically, and which we discovered to obey physical laws with staggering precision. My friendly advice to such people is to immediately throw away their mobile phones, television sets, automobiles and medicines since these were built on the assumption that laws of nature never fail. Please go back to the Stone Age, where you belong.
>Option 1: There is a physical effect not yet recognized by physicists, allowing information to be transmitted in novel ways.
>- What kind of effect could this possibly be? It has to be so weak that it went unnoticed in all physics experiments. These experiments are tremendously more sensitive than brain tissue and the like. Deviations from the Standard Model can only be expected in extremely high-energy particles or extremely weak interaction phenomena. The first cannot be emitted by brain tissue, the latter cannot be detected by brain cells. But there are many other reasons why this option can never work. The purported signal(s) should not only be able to move backward in time, over unlimited distances, from dead bodies, etc., but also carry information in a form that brains can encode and decode without any practice (unlike the ordinary senses). All these features are completely uncharacteristic for all physical phenomena, so it will be extremely difficult to keep this option up.
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>- This is an option I added in response to some reactions I received on the previous version of this little essay. There still exist people who think that parts of our world simply disconnect from everything that we have been able to sort out and investigate systematically, and which we discovered to obey physical laws with staggering precision. My friendly advice to such people is to immediately throw away their mobile phones, television sets, automobiles and medicines since these were built on the assumption that laws of nature never fail. Please go back to the Stone Age, where you belong.
>Option 1: There is a physical effect not yet recognized by physicists, allowing information to be transmitted in novel ways.
>- What kind of effect could this possibly be? It has to be so weak that it went unnoticed in all physics experiments. These experiments are tremendously more sensitive than brain tissue and the like. Deviations from the Standard Model can only be expected in extremely high-energy particles or extremely weak interaction phenomena. The first cannot be emitted by brain tissue, the latter cannot be detected by brain cells. But there are many other reasons why this option can never work. The purported signal(s) should not only be able to move backward in time, over unlimited distances, from dead bodies, etc., but also carry information in a form that brains can encode and decode without any practice (unlike the ordinary senses). All these features are completely uncharacteristic for all physical phenomena, so it will be extremely difficult to keep this option up.
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