Parapsychology and Researching the UAP Experience
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper is illustrating that the present-day regained interest in UFO/UAP is still driven by older materialist assumptions and a wishful quest to prove a putative extraterrestrial explanation for UAPs. It highlights that institutional biases from national security agencies interested in UAP have transited in many of the most common assumptions found in the study of UAP, and how problematic this is. It also situates epistemologically and ontologically the parapsychological approach to the study of UAP by presenting a contrast with materialist approaches and the ones inspired by psychical research. One of the main differences is the notion that experiencers are active participants in UAP experiences, and such experiences are oftentimes meaningful but at the unconscious level, a realm difficult to study in itself and where careful and complex, but never final, interpretations are required.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it