…assumption was that it wasn't possible. And this created an atmosphere of skepticism about paranormal powers in England. When David Hume put forward his famous arguments against miracles in the 18th century, His argument basically was miracles are things which…

…how things are. In my view, and in a line of thinking that goes all the way back to the Scottish philosopher David Hume, experiencing something out there in the world is part and parcel of the brain's predictions about the causes of the sensory signals…

…not mean they actually are. But it is a phenomenological observation that deserves to be taken seriously, and philosophers since Hume have already done that. Evolutionarily, it would be very weird if our perceptual systems had evolved so that we experienced…

…Not at all law-like. It's habit-like. You can see it either way. I mean, there are some people I know who still... David Hume commented on that, I well remember, but... But Luke Rupert, I mean, you know, if you look at this historically, the fact…

…that which might be ill and foster that which might be good. Whereas in about the 17th, 18th century, in figures like David Hume and Adam Smith write quite explicitly about this, and it's now become the norm. They say, no, there's no flood of meaning,…