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  3. From: firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth)
  4. Subject: Re: New Physics, Healing, Paranormal
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan27.081057.11513@sei.cmu.edu>
  6. Sender: netnews@sei.cmu.edu (Netnews)
  7. Organization: Software Engineering Institute
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  9. Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 08:10:57 EST
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  12. In article <1k4bv7INNfj1@gap.caltech.edu> brahm@cco.caltech.edu (David E. Brahm) writes:
  13.  
  14. >It seems obvious to me that you do have the resources, namely
  15. >  1) A computer,
  16. >  2) A human brain.
  17. >So go for it!  Mentally influence your random number generator!
  18.  
  19. Not fair - it's well known that psychics can't influence pseudo-random
  20. processes.  The experiment should be done with a true random process -
  21. for instance the process that, with extreme rarity, generates sense on
  22. sci.physics.
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