organism. What these scientists have discovered is that the central nervous
system is a biological amplifier whose output as manifested in behavior provides
a highly sensitive litmus of reactivity to electromagnetic energy. This
sensitivity, particularly the demonstration of the Frey effect, will inevitably
give rise to the question, Are there substantive implications here for
paranormal phenomena especially from the vantage of the Soviet scientist for
whom ESP means "electrosensory" (not extrasensory) perception? I am not prepared
to answer beyond this caveat: Under optimal experimental conditions, the
quantity of microwave energy that is necessary for direct transfer of
information to a human being is many orders of magnitude greater, say, than the
photic or acoustic energy associated with a threshold response to visual or
auditory stimulation. Perhaps there are electromagnetic receptor systems in us
as yet undiscovered with sensitivities comparable to or even greater than that
of the visual and auditory systems. This possibility, however, is bankrupt of
operational meaning without a corollary demonstration of specific
electromagnetic radiation by the human organism. Without a transmitter, a
receiver is useless. Except for an incoherent flux of infrared energies that are
broadcast from our bodies as the residue of metabolism, there are no known
electromagnetic emissions of sufficient energy to warrant more than the most
guarded of speculations, Not at all a cynic, but very much the skeptic, I
conclude:
ElectroMagnetic receivers we are, A light-wave we can see; As E-M
emitters our wave fronts are weak, Hardly enough for ESP.
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