If I remember it correctly, we had such cases in our country (with a facilitator, not a computer). The local club of sceptics decided to, of course, test it. They showed the locked-in person some objects in the absence of the facilitator, and when the facilitator entered the room again, it turned out the locked-in person couldn’t name those objects, showing it was just ideomotor movement of the facilitator.
Indeed. There are plenty of ways to test that true communication is happening, and those are how you know facilitation is bunk—not the banality of the statements. (I really doubt that they have all that much profundity to share after spending decades staring at the ceiling where the most exciting thing that happens all day tends to be things like the nurse turning them over to avoid bed sores and washing their bum.)
If I remember it correctly, we had such cases in our country (with a facilitator, not a computer). The local club of sceptics decided to, of course, test it. They showed the locked-in person some objects in the absence of the facilitator, and when the facilitator entered the room again, it turned out the locked-in person couldn’t name those objects, showing it was just ideomotor movement of the facilitator.
Indeed. There are plenty of ways to test that true communication is happening, and those are how you know facilitation is bunk—not the banality of the statements. (I really doubt that they have all that much profundity to share after spending decades staring at the ceiling where the most exciting thing that happens all day tends to be things like the nurse turning them over to avoid bed sores and washing their bum.)