{"id":940,"date":"2004-02-04T15:09:14","date_gmt":"2004-02-04T15:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-940.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"psi-testing-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2004\/02\/04\/psi-testing-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Psi Testing, part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case anyone was in doubt about the entry I wrote the other day about psi testing<\/a>: it was a joke.<\/p>\n

The Remillard Institute for Metapsychic Research<\/a> does not exist, and “Milieu Theory” is a reference to Julian May’s<\/a> Galactic Milieu and Pliocene novels<\/em>. (The Many-Coloured Land<\/i><\/a>, The Golden Torc<\/i><\/a>, The Nonborn King<\/i><\/a>, The Adversary<\/i><\/a>, Intervention<\/i><\/a>, Jack The Bodiless<\/i><\/a>, Diamond Mask<\/i><\/a>, and Magnificat<\/i><\/a>) These novels deal with the emergence amongst humans of “metapsychic” powers: telepathy, psychokinesis, coercion, farseeing, redaction (mental healing), and creativity. Intervention<\/i> is the linking book between the two series, and is set partly in Edinburgh. Hence the joke.<\/p>\n

The photos of Fiona with electrodes strapped to her head are real, but I took them while she was having her hearing<\/em> tested. Now this is<\/em> very cool and 21st century: the audiologist stuck plastic headphones over her ears, and attached electrodes to her head. A computer played sounds of varying loudness and frequency through the headphones, and then the electrodes measured her brain’s response to the sounds. It’s a more sophisticated version of ringing a bell and watching to see if the baby twitches.<\/p>\n

And yes, Fiona’s hearing seems to be just fine.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, Edinburgh University actually has a real<\/em> department of parapsychology<\/a>, where they perform genuine, serious research into psychic abilities and phenomena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case anyone was in doubt about the entry I wrote the other day about psi testing<\/a>: it was a joke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}