According To Churchland

According to Churchland, parapsychological phenomena include “…telepathy (mind reading), precognition (seeing the future), telekinesis (thought control of material objects), and clairvoyance (knowledge of distant objects) are all awkward to explain within the normal confines of psychology and physics. If these phenomena are real, they might well be reflecting the superphysical nature that the dualist ascribes to the mind. Trivially they are mental phenomena, and if they are also forever beyond physical explanation, then at least some mental phenomena must be irreducibly nonphysical" (208). I found the parapsychological phenomena compelling since it is extremely ambiguous and questionable. There is not a single parapsychological situation that can be repeated in an experiment. It is not provable. In order to support the theory of dualism it needs to be repeated in an experiment, so until then, it goes against the theory of dualism which makes this so compelling. It’s also compelling when you look at mental phenomena from the irreducibility point of view. Then, dualist must believe that the physical is not all that there is to the theory and the nonphysical must be included. There are mental phenomena which have no explanations and will not have physical explanations. Then, there are the nonphysical explanations to consider because not everything can be proved by the physical.