Incoming- Slothrop redux

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Thu Jan 6 19:41:45 CST 2011


Slothrop's "antenna" rises again:

  Precognitive Approach and Avoidance

"The presentiment studies provide evidence
 that our physiology can anticipate unpredictable
 erotic or negative stimuli before they occur.
 Such anticipation would be evolutionarily
 advantageous for reproduction and survival if
 the organism could act instrumentally to ap-
 proach erotic stimuli and avoid negative stimuli.
 The two experiments in this section were de-
 signed to test whether individuals can do so."

And from the psych lab at Cornell, no less:

    http://dbem.ws/FeelingFuture.pdf




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