3.11 : 超感覚的知覚

Extrasensory perception, or ESP, is the ability to perceive events beyond the known senses, such as sight, hearing, and touch.

Parapsychologists, researchers who focus on ESP and related psychic phenomena, categorize ESP into three main types – precognition, telepathy, and clairvoyance.

Precognition involves foreseeing future events, such as predicting an accident before it occurs.

Telepathy is the transfer of information between human minds without using the usual sensory channels. For example, Alex thinks about asking Sam to dinner, and Sam, without being told, suddenly calls Alex and suggests dinner.

Clairvoyance refers to the ability to perceive distant or hidden objects or events. For instance, it can be used to sense a house on fire in a different location without any physical clues.

To support their theory, parapsychologists believe in the existence of undiscovered mechanisms, such as the ESP phenomenon.

However, critics argue that there is a lack of empirical evidence and reproducibility, emphasizing the need for more rigorous scientific investigation to validate these claims.