Footnote AR.721. I choose in this paper to curtail the term "spirit" in connection with the possibilities of thought transference and other supposedly "occult" phenomena. In fact some phenomena may be occult, if we mean by occult "inability to see or detect the causal agents." I curb the aforementioned term on ground that over the centuries it has picked up many connotations that do not serve our interests here. So, we suggest the term "noumenal psyche." You may say that this is a mere synonym. Yet, it is, I urge, legitimate science to postulate that there is an aspect of human cognition that does not adhere to ordinary physicalist analysis (see Russell, Whitehead, T. Nagel, Descartes and numerous others).
We will have more to say on the noumenal psyche in a paper in progress now (Jan. 27, 2023).
We will have more to say on the noumenal psyche in a paper in progress now (Jan. 27, 2023).
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