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Of course, that assumption is as ridiculous as the assumption that other human abilities (such as the ability to be funny, or conciliatory, or the ability to be hopeful in the face of adversity) must be reproducible experimentally. Indeed, the inflexible dependence on laboratory data would make it virtually impossible to frame psi hypotheses applicable to non-laboratory conditions, since the dynamics of real-life situations cannot be reproduced (much less controlled) in the lab. For that matter, considering that laboratory experiments in parapsychology were originally conducted in order to study kinds of events that occurred initially outside the lab, it seems more bizarre still to suppose that we can discuss psi only in connection with conditions appropriate to formal experimen tation.
Whether one is a skeptic or a believer, it is methodologically indefensible to 23 The importance of non-experimental evidence open the door to the paranormal (even as a mere thought exper iment) , and then rule, independently of supporting evidence, that the door may be opened only a crack. If even modest ESP and PK indicate that the usual constraints on information-acquisition and influence on physical systems may be bypassed, then as far as we know, anything goes. We then have no grounds for insisting that those constraints may be bypassed only slightly.
The most that would happen, I think, is that physics would no longer be regarded as the fundamental branch of science, or even as prime contender for that position. In fact, if clear thinking were to reign, we would witness the abandonment of the view that any branch of science is funda mental. Physics would be regarded as neither more nor less funda mental than biology or psychology (now considered to have laws and descriptive categories not reducible to the language of physics). Granted, this would require a substantial and important change in thinking for many people.