主题：remote viewer and FBI psychic investigator -- simplyred

"Sir Roger Penrose, recently mentioned parapsychology in a positive way at a prestigious physics and consciousness seminar, but then very quickly added that the only reason he could get away with talking about such things is that he had tenure (Oxford University) and that he had been knighted by the Queen."

"Well, what I am partly saying is that those words (materialist) are a bit out of date, because the contemporary understanding of material is very different now from the way it used to be. If we consider what matter really is, we now understand it as much more of a mathematical thing. When these catagories 'materialist', 'idealist' etc. were first coined, people thought of matter as a much more defined thing, something which is 'there', and then you combine that with mysterious mind stuff which is floating around, which would be seperate from it. But I think that matter itself is now much more of a mental substance;... So before we have a deeper understanding of what is really going on, to talk about things in these terms is almost certainly limiting and inappropriate."

"Most readers of Physics World will probably dismiss paranormal phenomena as either utter nonsense or not worthy of serious study, but over the years the subject has attracted the interest of a number of eminent physicists..."