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...Rhine did, however, list the "many peculiarities" which he had discovered in his study of ESP. The phenomenon, he stated, must be voluntary, or else laboratory experiments could not discover its existence; yet ESP seems to be an unconscious ability...
...subject really doesn't know what he is doing," Rhine declared. He can score perfectly one day in an ESP test and fall miserably the next without any apparent change in effort or attitude...
Even more "peculiar" is ESP's apparent indifference to time and space. Rhine stated that psychic tests have been conducted in which the subject is separated from his "target" by thousands of miles and months of time without altering his ability to predict...
This feature of ESP, Rhine declared, makes it "quite possible that the phenomenon is of some category other than physical...
Almost in answer to this statement, Rhine's colleagues on the panel raised philosophical objections to the parapsychologist's explanation of ESP experiments. Ulric R. G. Neisser '50, of the psychology department at Brandeis University, suggested that the data could be described more accurately by discarding customary theories of casuality...