Open AccessResponse to: Brief Comments on “Siddhis and Psi Research: An Interdisciplinary Analysis”
Author(s) -
Sonali Bhatt Marwaha
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of world philosophies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.132
H-Index - 3
ISSN - 2474-1795
DOI - 10.2979/jourworlphil.2.1.14
Subject(s) - disappointment , epistemology , psychology , observational study , physicalism , philosophy , psychoanalysis , social psychology , medicine , metaphysics , pathology
In his brief comments on “Siddhis and Psi Research: An Interdisciplinary Analysis,” Ed Kelly expresses\uddisappointment that the paper does not mirror his worldview, which includes questioning the reality of psi—especially\udprecognition, accepting post-mortem survival and observational evidence for macro-PK including levitation. In this brief\udresponse to Kelly, I provide arguments in support of informational psi, particularly precognition, and in favor of a\udphysicalist, signal-based approach to psi, with brief points against the validity of micro-PK (mind-over-matter) and\udpost-mortem survival