Academic literature on the topic 'Proof of telepathy'

Telepathy is one of the most commonly reported psi-type experiences and represents the idea that one person can acquire information relating to the thoughts/feelings/intentions of another from a distance via a non-usual route. Typically the procedure involves a Sender and a Receiver who are physically separated whilst the former attempts to relay target information to the latter. Refinements to this paradigm have included placing the Receiver in sensory isolation in an effort to enhance the signal to noise ratio of the signal, as seen in the ganzfeld research. Here the aim was to immerse the Sender in a virtual reality (VR) environment in an effort to boost the transmission of the target whilst keeping the Receiver in partial sensory isolation. Using such a paradigm we tested eleven pairs of participants, each acting as Sender and Receiver across five trials. In each trial the Sender was immersed in a VR environment depicting a positive arousing experience (e.g., skiing downhill, driving a racing car). The Receiver’s task was to identify the correct target image from a set of 5 (i.e., 20% chance) matched for mean valence and arousal. Initial analysis of Receiver performance showed hit rates that did not differ significantly from chance. However, a post-hoc analysis comparing participants top two choices to chance showed a mean hit rate of 52% which was significantly greater than chance (at 40%). Examination of possible associations between hit rate and belief in psi as well as the subjectively rated strength of the relationship between Sender-Receiver pairings only showed a correlation with the psi sub-scale of the RPB. Hence, we argue that participant hit rate is more suggestive than conclusive of a telepathic effect. In addition, we outline a number of methodological refinements which we think could help to improve the viability and effectiveness of using VR.

It is thought, that some people have supernatural abilities, however, there are no scientific proofs of such facts. It this paper we also do not argue in favor or against this fact. The goal of the paper is to agrue in favor an other thesis: the supernatural abilities can be imitated via digital economy technologies. We demonstrate the mechanics of this imitation for telepathy, telekinesis, thoughts materialization and some other. Later in the paper, we discuss the following hypothesis: further technologies development may lead to a situation whet common people and physics (if they exist) will not be distinguished between each other.

Abstract It is of interest to study how contextual quantum mechanics is, in terms of the violation of Kochen Specker state-independent and state-dependent non-contextuality inequalities. We present state-independent non-contextuality inequalities with large violations, in particular, we exploit a connection between Kochen–Specker proofs and pseudo-telepathy games to show KS proofs in Hilbert spaces of dimension d ⩾ 217 with the ratio of quantum value to classical bias being O ( d / log d ) . We study the properties of this KS set and show applications of the large violation. It has been recently shown that Kochen–Specker proofs always consist of substructures of state-dependent contextuality proofs called 01-gadgets. We show a one-to-one connection between 01-gadgets in C d and Hardy paradoxes for the maximally entangled state in C d ⊗ C d . We use this connection to construct large violation 01-gadgets between arbitrary vectors in C d , as well as novel Hardy paradoxes for the maximally entangled state in C d ⊗ C d , and give applications of these constructions. As a technical result, we show that the minimum dimension of the faithful orthogonal representation of a graph in R d is not a graph monotone, a result that may be of independent interest.

Self-testing has been a rich area of study in quantum information theory. It allows an experimenter to interact classically with a black box quantum system and to test that a specific entangled state was present and a specific set of measurements were performed. Recently, self-testing has been central to high-profile results in complexity theory as seen in the work on entangled games PCP of Natarajan and Vidick \cite{low-degree}, iterated compression by Fitzsimons et al. \cite{iterated-compression}, and NEEXP in MIP* due to Natarajan and Wright \cite{neexp}. The most studied self-test is the CHSH game which features a bipartite system with two isolated devices. This game certifies the presence of a single EPR entangled state and the use of anti-commuting Pauli measurements. Most of the self-testing literature has focused on extending these results to self-test for tensor products of EPR states and tensor products of Pauli measurements.In this work, we introduce an algebraic generalization of CHSH by viewing it as a linear constraint system (LCS) game, exhibiting self-testing properties that are qualitatively different. These provide the first example of LCS games that self-test non-Pauli operators resolving an open questions posed by Coladangelo and Stark \cite{RobustRigidityLCS}. Our games also provide a self-test for states other than the maximally entangled state, and hence resolves the open question posed by Cleve and Mittal \cite{BCSTensor}. Additionally, our games have 1 bit question and log⁡n bit answer lengths making them suitable candidates for complexity theoretic application. This work is the first step towards a general theory of self-testing arbitrary groups. In order to obtain our results, we exploit connections between sum of squares proofs, non-commutative ring theory, and the Gowers-Hatami theorem from approximate representation theory. A crucial part of our analysis is to introduce a sum of squares framework that generalizes the solution group of Cleve, Liu, and Slofstra \cite{BCSCommuting} to the non-pseudo-telepathic regime. Finally, we give the first example of a game that is not a self-test. Our results suggest a richer landscape of self-testing phenomena than previously considered.

From the 1880s, W. T. Stead became increasingly interested in spiritualism and telepathy, believing paranormal communications provided proof of an afterlife and support for biblical accounts of angels, spirits, and miracles. Convinced that he possessed paranormal powers, he practiced automatic writing as a form of communication with the spirits of the dead. From 1893 to 1897, he edited the journal Borderland, aimed at promoting and popularizing occult studies. His Letters from Julia, first published in 1897 and claiming to be messages from the afterlife, became an international bestseller. For Stead, the Christian revival movement of 1904–5 was infused with elements of spiritualism and telepathy, and he was drawn to psychological views of religious experience. His ‘Julia’s Bureau’, formed in 1909, was meant to help individuals communicate with the spirits of the dead. While many were critical, Stead embraced spiritualism as supporting religious belief in an increasingly sceptical and secular era.