Can extrasensory perception or extrasensory perception be studied as a science? There will be some so-called fanatical, absurd, irresponsible and even dangerous views of supporters of abnormal phenomena, and there will be various claims that people can talk to the dead and even cure diseases through non-medical means. The media is keen to tell the so-called abnormal experience to the gullible public through strange and often distorted stories. These people constantly use their own money to pursue illusory hopes. The whole process is to use extrasensory and superpsychology to satisfy people's understandable wishes, and to use people's ignorance to make them indulge in deceptive and dangerous trust in unscientific ways of thinking, such as relying on psychotherapy instead of scientific treatment.

However, can psychological phenomena be tested by experimental design, statistical significance and scientific methods of self-replication? This controversial field is called parapsychology. If you can penetrate the brain, see the future clearly or feel unusual, we have super psychologists who are willing to meet you-and test you.

Critics-they call themselves skeptics-assert that all extrasensory and superpsychology are pseudoscience, with no real value, but a kind of exploitation by irresponsible media and gullible public. According to skeptics, parapsychology should be exposed. Parapsychology, according to the opinions of its supporters, is a scientific study of abnormal phenomena, commonly known as abnormal phenomena. It is a careful investigation of events that cannot be explained by natural laws or scientific knowledge, such as telepathy or other special manifestations. Advocating that parapsychology is a real science encourages some people and annoys others. Is parapsychology a new science or an old deception? Here, we invite some famous super psychologists and skeptics. They don't agree, we must make our own judgment.

Barry Behr Stein: Professor of Psychology at Simon Fraser University, member of Brain Behavior Laboratory, President of Atheists Association of British Columbia, member of CSICOP, a famous American anti-pseudoscience organization, and member of the executive committee. He once served as the editorial board of the magazine Skeptic, the so-called scientific investigation committee of supernatural phenomena.

Dean Reading is an experimental psychologist and the author of the best-selling book The World of Consciousness. It is believed that extrasensory research can explain "the scientific nature of spiritual phenomena".

Marilyn Schlitz: Deputy Director of Research and Education, Institute of Thinking Science, and Senior Scientist, Institute of Pacific Medical Center, California.

Charles Tate, the core teacher of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, is widely known internationally for his psychological research on the nature of consciousness, especially the variation of consciousness. As one of the founders of transpersonal psychology, Dr. Charles Tait is famous for his scientific research on transpersonal psychology. His two outstanding books, The Variation of Consciousness (1969) and Transcendental Psychology (1975), are widely used as teaching materials, which makes these studies formally included in the study of modern psychology. He is also the editor of the journal Records of Scientists' Supernatural Experiences.

James Trevor: Professor of Physics at George Manson University, famous for his prolific writing of scientific papers and his interest in science education for non-scientists.

Robert kuhn: Dean, why do you think scientific methods can be applied to the study of mental phenomena? Skeptical critics claim that extrasensory perception is more promising than serious science.

Dean's reading: Science consists of two parts: on the one hand, the measurement of behavior, which is the empirical side of science, on the other hand, the development of mechanism, which is the theoretical side of science. When people ask, "Is it a super psychological science?" They always consider the theoretical side. Indeed, we don't have a good theoretical explanation for the causes of mental phenomena.

Robert kuhn: You mean that even those scientists who believe in the reality of mental phenomena cannot construct a convincing basic mechanism-theory-to explain those potential reasons.

Dean Reading: Yes. But in measurement, it is obvious that these phenomena can be explained by scientific methods.