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	How do you prove photography to a blind man?

fleshcanvas

4-5-2007 12:37 AM

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fleshcanvas says:

Take THAT, John Edwards. Seriously tho, being as how NO ONE has accepted James Randi's still outstanding offer of $1 million for any psychic that can *prove* beyond a shadow of a doubt their ability... I'm amazed we as a society still give credence to these loons. They are about as useful as mimes.

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psychic powers, I would never be able to believe in what he “knew” to be
true. You could never prove to a blind
man that photography exists, and likewise no one would ever be able to
demonstrate to me that psychic powers were real.<O:P _moz-userdefined=""></O:P></SPAN></p> <P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN>It took me about ten seconds to think of a way to show he
was wrong. This is what I said. Give the blind man a camera, a tripod and a
remote shutter release. (Ideally the camera
is a Polaroid, or a digital with an instant picture facility.) Everyone leaves the room but the blind
man. He takes a picture of himself, and
holds up a number of fingers (1 to 5) at random. The sighted person comes back into the room,
looks at the picture and says “you were holding up X fingers”. If he gets the right number, and continues to
do so every time this experiment is performed, the blind man will eventually
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