Re: Perception and Physics

Janis Jabar wrote:

> Here is the most interesting journal you will find on the science of
> perception.

   I perceive a large pro****tion of bull**** at confiscatory 
prices.

   Several decades ago I read and replicated Hieronymus' 
infamous patent because I'd replicated his seed-sprouting 
in-the-dark experiment, which worked as advertised, 
surprising the hell out of me.

   His patent described an apparatus based on an 
extrapolation of the "eloptic" principle he thought the seed 
experiment revealed. I simply couldn't get the machine to 
work as advertised; no "stick" at all, and yes, I replicated 
it _exactly_ and even tried many variations.

   Mind you I _wanted_ it to work, but no dice. Please don't 
go on about "individual sensitivity". Nobody else I roped 
into it could get it to work either, regardless of their 
education or other preconceptions. Maybe we just weren't 
adequately drunk/stoned/stupid.

   Mark L. Fergerson