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  • ESP isn't real.

  • And no, you don't have a 6th sense.

  • You're just going to crush all my hopes

  • and dreams like that, huh?

  • Yeah, well, if you had a 6th sense,

  • you'd know that I secretly love to crush hopes and dreams.

  • You don't need ESP to see that.

  • Hey, everyone.

  • Lacy and Anthony here.

  • You've heard of ESP, right?

  • It stands for extrasensory perception,

  • and refers to the ability to pick up things with your mind.

  • As opposed to your ears, eyes, nose, mouth and skin, which

  • obviously have nothing to do with the mind, I guess.

  • Clearly, clearly.

  • ESP is, in a nutshell, knowing something

  • that isn't immediately obvious.

  • For instance, you're sitting next to a dude on a train

  • and you sense that he's been in a car accident.

  • Or that he murdered someone.

  • Right.

  • Or murder detection, which is a very useful ESP skill.

  • Despite the fact that more than one in three Americans

  • believes in it, a year-long study published in Plus One

  • this week is ruling out the possibility of a 6th sense.

  • In the study they found that it's true,

  • people who claim to have ESP are picking up on something.

  • But it's not because they're psychic.

  • Right.

  • It's because, for instance in the case of the murdery jerk

  • on the train, you might have subconsciously

  • noticed a fleck of blood on his jacket.

  • We're intuitively processing what we're seeing,

  • and our mind draws some conclusions.

  • The catch is that we don't consciously

  • realize that our sense is peaked because of the blood, which

  • leads some people to attribute it to psychic ability.

  • Other examples might be registering

  • scars on someone's face and knowing

  • that something bad probably happened,

  • or registering that your kids are really quiet, so they're

  • up to no good, or picking up on subtle communication cues

  • and predicting that a couple is about to break up.

  • The brain does a lot of tricksy things.

  • The more of these paranormal studies that come out,

  • the more I realize I can't trust my own brain.

  • It's a little frightening.

  • How did they go about the study?

  • Well, it all started with a student

  • who claimed to have a 6th sense.

  • The lead scientist wanted to figure out what was going on.

  • The team showed student participants an image,

  • gave a one-second pause, and then showed another image.

  • And sometimes, the second image was the same.

  • Other times, it had a very subtle change.

  • And when the image changed, the students

  • had no idea what change, they just

  • knew that something more was there.

  • Amongst those students who picked up on the change

  • that they couldn't explain, some said

  • it was because of their 6th sense.

  • So essentially, the researchers found

  • that what people are calling the 6th sense

  • is information that we aren't consciously aware of,

  • or can't verbalize.

  • This happens because the brain is always

  • taking sensory metrics, visual cues, [INAUDIBLE]

  • cues, faint sounds in the distance.

  • They're constantly being registered

  • in what is essentially a giant, constantly

  • running database in your brain.

  • And only when the information is of immediate concern or focus

  • do we really draw on all that sensory information

  • that we're subconsciously receiving from our environment.

  • I love the way the researchers describe this, by the way,

  • like an abstract painting.

  • You looked at it and you're not really sure what you're seeing,

  • and yet you get some sense of what the painting is about.

  • It's like magic.

  • Except it's not magic, it's science.

  • It's science magic.

  • No, it's just science.

  • Thanks for joining us for D News, everyone.

  • What psychic skill do you wish you possess?

  • Oh, I like the one where you can start fires.

  • And I also like the one when you turn invisible,

  • because then you start the fire and no one knows.

  • OK.

  • So tell us about it in the comments.

  • And if the studio hasn't burned down by then,

  • we will be back with more science updates.

  • And if it does burn down, you won't know who did it.

  • Yeah, we're gonna know who did it.

ESP isn't real.

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不,你沒有第六感。 (No, You Don't Have A 6th Sense)

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    Jack 發佈於 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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