{"id":262,"date":"2009-03-11T01:18:47","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T00:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.simonjnugent.com\/?p=262"},"modified":"2009-03-11T01:18:47","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T00:18:47","slug":"sonys-esp-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"Sony&#8217;s ESP Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an intrguing little nugget of information that I came across while reading Dean Radin&#8217;s summary of Extrasensory research (&#8220;Entangled Minds&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>Apparently Sony set up a lab with four staff to investigate whether ESP was real or not. The ESPER lab, as it was known, was shut down after 7 years of investigation, concluding: &#8220;We found out experimentally that yes, ESP exists, but that any practical application of this knowledge is not likely in the foreseeable future&#8221;. In other words, they claim to prove it&#8217;s real but can&#8217;t find a way to sell it to consumers.<\/p>\n<p>The second part of their statement certainly has the ring of capitalist truth about it which makes me inclined to believe the first part &#8211; that they did believe they had found evidence for ESP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an intrguing little nugget of information that I came across while reading Dean Radin&#8217;s summary of Extrasensory research (&#8220;Entangled Minds&#8221;). Apparently Sony set up a lab with four staff to investigate whether ESP was real or not. The ESPER&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/?p=262\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}