Extrasensory perception (ESP) involves reception of information not gained through the recognized

physical senses but sensed with the mind. The term was adopted by Duke University psychologist J. B.
Rhine to denote psychic abilities such as telepathy, clairaudience, and clairvoyance, and their transtemporal operation as precognition or retrocognition. ESP is also sometimes referred to as a sixth sense.
The term implies acquisition of information by means external to the basic limiting assumptions of
science, such as that organisms can only receive information from the past to the present.
Parapsychology is the study of paranormal psychic phenomena, including ESP. Parapsychologists
generally regard such tests as the ganzfeld experiment as providing compelling evidence for the
existence of ESP. The scientific community rejects ESP due to the absence of an evidence base, the lack
of a theory which would explain ESP, the lack of experimental techniques which can provide reliably
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positive results,
and considers ESP a pseudoscience.

ESP (extrasensory perception)

ESP or extrasensory perception is perception occurring independently of sight, hearing,
or other sensory processes.
People who have extrasensory perception are said to be psychic. Some think that
everyone has ESP; others think it is a talent that only special folks have. Some think
that animals (see below) or plantshave ESP.
The term ESP was popularized by J. B. Rhine, who began
investigating paranormal phenomena at Duke University in 1927.
ESP refers to telepathy, clairvoyance (remote viewing),precognition, and, in recent
years, clairaudience.
The existence of ESP and other paranormal powers such aspsychokinesis (PK), are
disputed, though systematic experimental research on these subjects, known
collectively as psi, has been ongoing for over a century in a field known
as parapsychology.
Most of the evidence for ESP, however, is anecdotal. The anecdotes consist of two
parts: the experience itself and the interpretation of it. A story may be true, but the
attempt to make sense or give psychic meaning to the story often seems to the skeptic
to exceed the bounds of reasonableness. The following example is a classic.