Can Telepathy Occur During Dreams and OBEs?

[Chronos]

Strictly me. The creepy part was this 'rift' of crackling energy that invariably 'opened' a short time into the experience. I had no desire to further explore. I agree, however, that OBE's are not scientifically useful until otherwise unobtainable knowledge is acquired by the practice.

 

[mXSCNT]

Occams razor is a rule of thumb, not a scientific principle that can be used to draw conclusions.

In its most simplified form, Occam's razor simply says that if you have two models that explain your data equally well, the model whose representation is shorter is more likely to be correct. This makes statistical sense. Suppose you have decided to choose a model from among all those that are m bits long (with some standard representation of a model as a series of bits). There are something like 2^m models that are m bits long. So the larger m is, the greater your risk of selection bias (and hence a false positive).

See also: minimum description length