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"Imagine The Matrix as written by M. Night Shyamalan, casting no one you've ever heard of, and shot as soft-core porn. That's Sucker Punch."
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"The article ends, as these things often do, with a discussion section. This section, as all articles on psi phenomena must, mentions quantum mechanics.
'Those who follow contemporary developments in modern physics, however, will be aware that several features of quantum phenomena are themselves incompatible with our everyday conception of physical reality.'
In other words, "I have no idea how quantum physics works and I have no idea how my proposed ESP works, so it must be the same kind of thing!" Not so much."
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