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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
It wasn't that long ago that anyone who used natural phenomena in science was thought to have super natural powers. Eventually our understanding of the natural world has changed enough that we know people aren't "witches". We know so little about the human brain, I wouldn't discount anything completely. Essentially, we know as much about the human brain as medieval Europeans knew about things like chemistry and physics, so I would be weary of falling into any assumptions about psychics like they did about witches.
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The difference is even if you know nothing about chemistry or physics, you can still get results. We had food, medicine of a sort, etc all based on "chemistry".. no one knew what was going on, but trial and error over a long period still led to results. Same with physics, no one knew anything about how it all worked, but we still built wheels and wagons and inclines and machines and stuff to make our lives easier.. through trial and error and serendipity.
And then when we figured out what we were doing and actually intentionally did it (science), things really took off.
Psychics and astrologers and paranormal practitioners have been around for thousands and thousands of years, but they haven't come up with one thing that's improved our lives.
You can point to thousands of things that were discovered by accident or trial and error before science that enabled humanity to evolve, and move from hunter gatherers into a globe dominating society, because those things are real. You can do no such thing for any psychic, astrologer, faith healer, etc etc...