But you forget the other million times you turn and look around and absolutely nobody is looking at you. Or the times you've stared at the back of someone's head and they've blissfully ignored you. If you look around enough, you are going to eventually look at someone who is looking at you. Same applies to looking at the back of someone's head.

IMO, Jaconda nailed this one.

A guy called James Randi has a $1 000 000 fund set aside to be given to the first person who successfully demonstrates, under laboratory conditions, any form of ESP or supernatural ability. No-one has managed to claim it as yet. I reckon his loot is safe, although I wrote in predicting I wouldn't win it and I was right, so maybe...

1M isn't much if you're able to read minds and predict the future. Busting half of vegas would be much more fun than submitting to hours of lab tests for a measly seven figures...

Equalsfour is right on

That hardly fits my lifes experiences.
Maybe I'm better looking than you are.

I think what doyle means by ESP is nothing supernatural but anything you can use to aid in reading another players hand, but which is too subtle to consciously understand or describe. Presumably an individual contributor to this effect is difficult to isolate and measure becuase there's an array of inputs and the rule determining outputs, i.e. your response, is a complex function.

From Merriam Webster online dictionary:

ESP

Main Entry: extrasensory perception
Function: noun
Date: 1934
: perception (as in telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition) that involves awareness of information about events external to the self not gained through the senses and not deducible from previous experience —called also ESP

Holy crap a song I was thinking about just played on the radio .... see ya later I'm headin' to 25/50 while the iron is hot

When you're such a dreamy hunk that the odds of a woman staring at you are elevated 24/7, the coincidence of looking back at them or anticipating that they will be looking at you is about as far from extra-sensory as you can get.

For the existence of extra-sensory type phenomena to be contemplated, a better definition and standard is needed than two lushes making eyes at each other in a meat market. That doesn't qualify and is just more of the garbage that gives the whole subject a bad name.

you have several types of memory, one being semantic, another episodic.

semantic is memory of facts and concepts unrelated to experience (ex you knowing the capital of Canada is Ottawa without you being there etc)

episodic is you explaining a particular event ("yeah I went to California in 2007 for coachella")

both are from different parts of the brain (dont feel like looking it up) and the memorization of odd things that you dont remember where that fact came from or why you know it are because you have semantic memory of this fact but no episodic. Maybe ESP is remembering something in your semantic memory bank and it seems like it came outta nowhere since you dont remember where it came from (episodic).

**Just thought I'd throw that out there, I had a leading expert in Canada talk to my class about that today so im relaying what i remember while sitting ripped...

I always thought it was a eupemism for card marking.

I think people can employ it to some degree. I have seen it too many times. Somebody calls the exact card before it comes out, even several times in a row. Someone has a gut feeling something is going to happen and it happens.

I think maybe it exists but it doesn't work perfectly

I have had some experience with this. I have "seen" cards appear before they have been turned. Can't really harness the ability though. But it has happened more times than a coincidence. And it has happened in both a good way and a bad way.

I have had a bunch of moments where I have no idea how I knew what an opponent was holding, but just did without even really thinking about it. I am going with it is some subconscious physical tells and betting patterns I picked up.

It is developed through repetition and it just hits you from nowhere. Like being able to almost certainly put an opponents on a goofy two pair (Ex. TAG UTG on Jacks and Sevens), for no apparent reason. Then you turn up right.

I have a book on ESP that I've been hanging onto for several years. It's supposed to be practical. Perhaps I'll read it finally and sum up the points in a post as a favor to the devoted 2'ers.