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Re: ESP Puzzles
« Reply #25 on: Aug 20th, 2003, 5:16am » |
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If a year had 13 months it wouldn't always work..
And as I recall for some cultures it does..
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Re: ESP Puzzles
« Reply #26 on: Aug 20th, 2003, 5:27am » |
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You're right, towr. Looks like Sir Col's mental abilities have a cultural upper bound. 
The idea could of course be extended. However, it wouldn't be good style to claim to read minds and nevertheless ask how many months there are in the subject's calendar before reading their mind.
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Re: ESP Puzzles
« Reply #27 on: Aug 20th, 2003, 8:03am » |
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it's also not really good style to claim you can read peoples mind, then ask them to give you certain information that clearly encodes what they're trying to 'read' 
(If it were lossy encoding that'd be one thing, but in any encoding used in such a trick you just know it's not lossy)
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