ABSTRACT
The reduction of the abstractness of time to the level of physical reality is a visualist misconception; to regard a highly abstract quantity as physically extended makes philosophical nonsense. Fortunately, considering the philosophical climate, it does so later rather than sooner; a few of its concepts excepted, common sense still finds itself made articulate in Aristotelian scholasticism, it may skip the past three centuries of idealism altogether, as an incoherent parenthesis. The infinite suggestibility of the 'subjective mind' is an old psychical research commonplace unaccountably forgotten since psychical research became parapsychology. Scientific explanations are physical explanations; the entire history of knowledge represents the overthrowing of non-physical explanations by physical ones. Psychical research in the USSR, where scientists prefer to call it 'physiological cybernetics', is at present concentrated on telepathy experiments with hypnotized subjects, although attention is also being given to such a complicated psi-form as yoga.
