Name: No, You Don't Have A 6th Sense
Uploaded: 2015-09-09T07:54:40.000Z
Duration: 3 min 13 s
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Adverbs of degree

you'd know that I secretly love to crush hopes and dreams.

and refers to the ability to pick up things with your mind.

As opposed to your ears, eyes, nose, mouth and skin, which

obviously have nothing to do with the mind, I guess.

For instance, you're sitting next to a dude on a train

and you sense that he's been in a car accident.

Or murder detection, which is a very useful ESP skill.

Despite the fact that more than one in three Americans

believes in it, a year-long study published in Plus One

this week is ruling out the possibility of a 6th sense.

people who claim to have ESP are picking up on something.

It's because, for instance in the case of the murdery jerk

on the train, you might have subconsciously

We're intuitively processing what we're seeing,

realize that our sense is peaked because of the blood, which

leads some people to attribute it to psychic ability.

or registering that your kids are really quiet, so they're

up to no good, or picking up on subtle communication cues

and predicting that a couple is about to break up.

The more of these paranormal studies that come out,

the more I realize I can't trust my own brain.

The lead scientist wanted to figure out what was going on.

The team showed student participants an image,

gave a one-second pause, and then showed another image.

And sometimes, the second image was the same.

Other times, it had a very subtle change.

Amongst those students who picked up on the change

that what people are calling the 6th sense

is information that we aren't consciously aware of,

taking sensory metrics, visual cues, [INAUDIBLE]

in what is essentially a giant, constantly

And only when the information is of immediate concern or focus

do we really draw on all that sensory information

that we're subconsciously receiving from our environment.

I love the way the researchers describe this, by the way,

You looked at it and you're not really sure what you're seeing,

and yet you get some sense of what the painting is about.

Thanks for joining us for D News, everyone.

What psychic skill do you wish you possess?

Oh, I like the one where you can start fires.

And I also like the one when you turn invisible,

because then you start the fire and no one knows.

And if the studio hasn't burned down by then,

we will be back with more science updates.

And if it does burn down, you won't know who did it.