Interestingly, suppression of the left medial frontal cortex has been found experimentally to increase significantly a subject’s ability to influence the numerical output of a random event generator. An arrow moving at random on the screen, as the output of the random number generator dictated, was influenced to make significantly more movements in the ‘contralesional’ direction, namely towards the right. The authors conclude: ‘The medial frontal lobes may act as a biological filter to inhibit psi [phenomena that are anomalous according to contemporary orthodoxy] through mechanisms related to
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