Reminds me of Alan Turing's wildly undernoted remarks about ESP in his seminal essay "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"
> I assume that the reader is familiar with the idea of extrasensory perception, and the meaning of the four items of it, viz., telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition and psychokinesis. These disturbing phenomena seem to deny all our usual scientific ideas. How we should like to discredit them! Unfortunately the statistical evidence, at least for telepathy, is overwhelming. It is very difficult to rearrange one's ideas so as to fit these new facts in.
(This is from a paragraph dealing with ESP's implications are for the existence of thinking machines.)
> I assume that the reader is familiar with the idea of extrasensory perception, and the meaning of the four items of it, viz., telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition and psychokinesis. These disturbing phenomena seem to deny all our usual scientific ideas. How we should like to discredit them! Unfortunately the statistical evidence, at least for telepathy, is overwhelming. It is very difficult to rearrange one's ideas so as to fit these new facts in.
(This is from a paragraph dealing with ESP's implications are for the existence of thinking machines.)
https://redirect.cs.umbc.edu/courses/471/papers/turing.pdf