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I am open for additional alternative explanations...
You've been offered additional alternative explanations, and you rejected them all.
...besides paranormal perception and synesthesia...
Human beings do not have the ability to see inside the human body. Period. So, if paranormal perception is ruled out by the demonstration, and since synesthesia cannot explain your claimed ability, there is no 'mundane' explanation, except that your mind created a false memory of detecting Dr. Carlson's missing kidney, and you've convinced yourself that it is true.
...however it is not possible that the accuracy in the past would have been all in my mind. And I am certain about that.
It is quite possible. You simply refuse to acknowledge that.
As GeeMack has asked-several times now-do you have the professional expertise to make that assessment, or has some professional with the expertise made that assessment? Yes or no?
I did detect the missing left kidney that time. It was absolutely not a false memory that I would have constructed after the fact.
As GeeMack has asked-several times now-do you have the professional expertise to make that assessment, or has some professional with the expertise made that assessment? Yes or no?
And if you think about it, why else would I be betting my entire claim on that single isolated experience, if it weren't just that compelling?
Well, let's see. The story has now been picked up by several news outlets, and the IIG is lauding you on their website for being a unique paranormal claimant who is willing to put her money where her mouth is, etc, so it's quite possible you are also motivated by the attention.
You know from the past exactly how careful I am with this claim.
You are? Please explain in what ways you have been 'careful' with this claim. You have yet to produce the data from the study. You have not even provided any evidence that Dr. Carlson verifies that he is, in fact, missing a kidney. All you have offered is a detailed description that, quite possibly, is a memory created by your imagination, and "I really, really did!"
This experience was so true and so compelling that if I fail this Preliminary then I have no doubt in my mind that the claim is falsified.
In your view, falsified as a paranormal perception, but not disproven as a genuine experience. What's the point, besides the attention?
As for my other types of experiences, this medical perceptions claim is the only claim that I am seriously interested in investigating. I do intend to team up with a few people and visit supposedly haunted sites and see if I can verify or debunk my experience of ghosts, and if I do find a normal explanation to it, I will be happy to be one of the few or first who actually experiences ghosts, to admit that it isn't reality based at all.
Really? I, Miss Kitty, and Ravenwood have offered solid, factual evidence that your experiences of
the ghost of Ben Franklin and
Revolutionary War ghosts were not reality based, and
you refuse to admit that. It follows that you are saying what you believe sounds good, in order to appear virtuous, without any real intention of following through.
I haven't chosen my experiences, and I am a science student and skeptic so rather than assume that my unusual experiences are reality based, I have chosen to investigate them.
You do assume that your unusual experiences are reality based. You've proven that over and over and over.
I will most likely be putting the migraine healing claim to the test on the same weekend that I have the IIG Preliminary, depending on if California laws permit me to do that. I might be falsifying two claims in one weekend, isn't that nice?
Does that mean you will be contacting the appropriate regulatory agencies in California to clear this migraine healing demonstration with them, or are you just going to wing it?
As for my experience of colors and vibrations, I will continue to experience those whether I investigate or falsify them or not. I will continue to draw inspiration from these for scientific hypotheses in my work. But you will never see me entering into the woo economy. I think I will rather join forces with you all and become an investigating Skeptic. Having personal experience with these things, and having rationally falsified those claims, will probably make me a very good Skeptic indeed.
When have you rationally falsified your claims? You claim synesthesia, but refuse to be tested for it by a qualified doctor. You provide nothing but anecdotal evidence to support your claims. You refuse to systematically and properly rule out other explanations for your claimed abilities. Your claims will never be rationally falsified. You will simply acknowledge that the kidney claim is not "paranormal", but continue with the "I really, really did!"
Similarly, you can't be sure either that any of what you remember doing earlier today did in fact happen. First of all, if I were prone to having false memories, it would be very likely that friends and family would have pointed out inconsistencies to me in my life before, but that has never happened. I have not once experienced having my memories of events challenged by persons who were there with me and who witnessed events with me. My recollection of things has never been shown to be incorrect in the past, or challenged by people who experienced it with me. That in itself has some significance, although of course that does not provide conclusive credibility to my claim of having detected the kidney being missing.
Since your family and friends cannot verify the authenticity of your claimed 'genuine experiences', this point is moot. As GeeMack has asked-several times now-do you have the professional expertise to make that assessment, or has some professional with the expertise made that assessment? Yes or no?
I know how I sat there and was debating to myself whether to write down "missing left kidney" on the questionnaire. I spent several minutes looking into his back and confirming time and time again for myself that his left kidney was not there. I know how I held the pen against the paper, ready to write, and how my logic was telling me that surely I must be wrong because he doesn't seem to be the kind of person who has had kidney problems and had a kidney removed (my knowledge of the subject was not very broad at that time), and my logic was telling me that I would never hear the end of it and that I had been correct in many compelling cases in the past and had to make sure that I could proceed with the investigation for the sake of those past accurate perceptions. My mind was entirely certain that the perception was wrong, but the perception was entirely certain that the left kidney was not there.
Anyhow. Based on anything I know about myself, I did have that perception during the reading. And that is why I am betting my entire claim on that single experience...
And it is entirely possible that Dr. Carlson told you he was missing a kidney,and, since you desperately wanted to have accurately detected something, your mind created this detailed 'memory'. The human mind is a tricky little device.
Before you say, again, that that isn't possible. as GeeMack has asked-several times now-do you have the professional expertise to make that assessment, or has some professional with the expertise made that assessment? Yes or no?
...All I am asking is that you allow me to make this paranormal claim, because, that is what this is.
"Allow" you? No one here has prohibited you from making any claim. It isn't possible for us to do so.
I detected the missing kidney and so there! I DETECTED THE MISSING KIDNEY! And that's why this is a paranormal investigation! There is no way that particular experience could have been imaginary or constructed after the fact! Just the way it is!...
"So there"? What are you, eight?
As GeeMack has asked-several times now-do you have the professional expertise to make that assessment, or has some professional with the expertise made that assessment? Yes or no?
Why should we accept that when you have not properly ruled out other possible explanations? As GeeMack has asked-several times now-do you have the professional expertise to make that assessment, or has some professional with the expertise made that assessment? Yes or no?
I am so very sorry that this subject is so provocative...
Provocative? It isn't. It's disturbing, but it isn't provocative.
...and that it turns your whole worlds up side down
Wow, giving yourself an awful lot of importance there, aren't you? I doubt anyone's world has even mildly shifted over this.
...but I did detect the missing kidney!
If this demonstration isn't going to change that belief, then what is the point, beyond attention seeking?
But, I detected the missing kidney! What am I supposed to do with that! That's why it's a paranormal investigation! It's not supposed to be possible, yet, I did it! And it was my strongest perception ever!
