6th sense

[smiles]

Hi ! Could you tell me what you understand about sixth sense and according to you, when does a normal person at one time having his (her) sixth sense ?

Thanks !!!

[ydoaPs]

The sixth sense is smell. You have to be lucky to get that one.

[insane_alien]

The sixth sense is smell. You have to be lucky to get that one.

 

well, that all depends on how you list them. humans have about 9 senses altogether though most people not in a related feild only know about the five 'classical' senses.

 

wikipedia lists them all and has no glaring errors.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense

[smiles]

Hi I mean Extra-Sensory Perception

[Pangloss]

Moved to pseudoscience and speculations.

[Edtharan]

Hi I mean Extra-Sensory Perception

The term Extra-Sensory Perception is a bit of an Oxymoron. To perceive something then you need a Sense for it. So how can you perceive something without a Sense?

 

To date, there have never been any controlled experiments that prove that there exists "Extra-Awarenesses".

 

Think about this in terms of evolution. If there was a method that allowed a creature to see the future, then it would never be eaten by a predator (or if a predator, when the prey would escape and so therefore not have to waste energy attempting to catch it). This would be such a huge evolutionary advantage that if such abilities could exist, then they would almost certainly have evolved.

 

Also, reading minds, would eliminate the need for communication methods that would reveal ones location (so then why do all animals still use communication systems that expose them?)

 

This kind of thinking can be applied to any "Extra-Sensory Perception" and it shows that such things can't exist, or if they did they would be common place (and so not extra-sensory).

[iNow]

Perhaps first finding a decent definition of "extra sensory perception" would allow us to discuss it more fruitfully.

 

 

http://science.howstuffworks.com/esp1.htm

What is ESP?

 

Extrasensory perception is a collective term for various hypothetical mental abilities. These abilities (along with other paranormal phenomena) are also referred to as psi.

 

The major types of ESP are:

 

• Telepathy - the ability to read another person's thoughts
  
• Clairvoyance - the ability to "see" events or objects happening somewhere else
  
• Precognition - the ability to see the future
  
• Retrocognition - the ability to see into the distant past
  
• Mediumship - the ability to channel dead spirits
  
• Psychometry - the ability to read information about a person or place by touching a physical object
  

A closely related psi phenomenon, not technically part of ESP, is telekinesis, the ability to alter the physical world with mind power alone.

 

 

 

So, smiles, what do YOU think?

[smiles]

But I see some cases that a person can feel what will happen to their relative at someday in the future (or will happen in the next few hours) ?

How do you understand that ?

Thanks !

[swansont]

But I see some cases that a person can feel what will happen to their relative at someday in the future (or will happen in the next few hours) ?

How do you understand that ?

Thanks !

 

It's a random event, correct no more often than chance would dictate.

[Edtharan]

But I see some cases that a person can feel what will happen to their relative at someday in the future (or will happen in the next few hours) ?

How do you understand that ?

Thanks !

It's a random event' date=' correct no more often than chance would dictate.[/quote']

It is not random. It is a product of selective reporting or remembering things differently to what happened.

 

How many times in a life time will one person think that something has happened to someone they know. Lots. It is called worrying and we all do it. But, out of all those time you got it wrong, you might get it right (or nearly right) and then this stick out in your mind, not because you were really right, but because you worry.

 

Secondly, memories can change. Scientists have found that when we remember something we rewrite that memory. So, you might have remembered that one time you worried about the person that was injured, then in doing so you rewrite that memory with details of what happened to them and then the next time you remember it those details are included too.

 

This makes you think that what you actually did was to "predict" the accident, but all it was was worry and retroactive rewriting of you memory.

 

Here is an experiment. Each time you think that something has happened to someone you know, write it down on a an index card (with the time and date you had this "prediction"). Then when you next see that person, if that "prediction didn't come true, throw that index card into a box labelled "Wrong", if it did come true place it is a box labelled "True".

 

How full will the "Wrong" box get before you get a "True" response?

 

Writing them down (with the date) is to help safe guard against retroactive memory rewriting. Also, if you seem to "remember" making a correct prediction, you can check it against what is written.

[iNow]

It is not random. It is a product of selective reporting or remembering things differently to what happened.

This is an important point. They call it perceptual (and/or cognitive) salience.

[swansont]

The underlying event is random, as far as the thought actually correlating with an event. The recall or reporting of it is biased.

[John Cuthber]

"But I see some cases that a person can feel what will happen to their relative at someday in the future (or will happen in the next few hours) ?

How do you understand that ?"

 

I just call it coincidence; what's to understand?