《C8T1P3 Part 1 PPT》.pdf

• For more than a century the issue of telepathy has divided the scientific community, and even today it still sparks bitter controversy among top academics. •...问题（在...中）引发了激烈的争 论。 •...是否应该… （在...中）引发了激 烈的争论。 •大学的主要功能这个问题在教育专 家中引发了激烈的争论。 •大学应该提供学术知识还是职业教 育这个问题在教育专家中引发了激 烈的争论。 •大学应该提供学术知识还是职业教 育这个问题在教育专家中引发了激 烈的争论。 •...是一个有争议的问题。 •大学应该提供学术知识还是职业教 育是一个有争议的问题。 •Since the 1970s, parapsychologists at leading universities and research institutes around the world have risked the derision of sceptical colleagues by putting the various claims for telepathy to the test in dozens of rigorous scientific studies. •The results and their implications are dividing even the researchers who uncovered them. •Some researchers say the results constitute compelling evidence that telepathy is genuine. •Other parapsychologists believe the field is on the brink of collapse, having tried to produce definitive scientific proof and failed. •Sceptics and advocates alike do concur on one issue, however: that the most impressive evidence so far has come from the so-called ‘ganzfeld’ experiments… • Reports of telepathic experiences had by people during meditation led parapsychologists to suspect that telepathy might involve ‘signals’ passing between people that were so faint that they were usually swamped by normal brain activity. • In this case, such signals might be more easily detected by those experiencing meditation-like tranquility in a relaxing ‘whole field’ of light, sound and warmth. • In early ganzfeld experiments, the telepathy test involved identification of a picture chosen from a random selection of four taken from a large image bank. •人们被要求去识别哪四幅图片是被 使用的 •Once the session was over, this person was asked to identify which of the four images had been used.