Chen Shouliang’s children potential-training class
🎓 Academic research40 children after 4 days’ training reportedly showed ‘finger-reading’ in 80% of cases.
VerdictFailed anti-peeking tests.
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Power Mimicry
Copying and using others’ superpowers
Reality checkNo case of ‘copying others’ superpowers’; both Peking Univ (1979) and Taiwan Univ (1996) claimed ‘training’ gave many children finger-reading (a kind of ‘contagion’); the real neuroscience: mirror neurons and brain-to-brain transfer of motor intent.
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Li Sizeng finger-reading training class
🎓 Academic research138 children enrolled, 98 finished 4 days’ training, 21 judged ‘successful’.
VerdictAs in the X-ray Vision entry.
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Mirror neurons
🎓 Academic researchWhen a monkey watches another grasp, the same motor-cortex neurons fire as if it grasped.
VerdictThe neural basis of ‘learning by watching’.
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Brain-to-brain transfer of motor intent
🔬 Achieved by scienceAs in the Telepathy entry.
VerdictA technical ‘borrowing of another’s movement’.
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Heart-transplant ‘cellular memory’
📜 On recordRecipients claimed to acquire the donor’s tastes, personality, even memories.
VerdictNo controls; mostly explicable by drugs and psychology.
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