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Are there theoretical limitations on trans-communication-phenomena? - Some predictions of the model of pragmatic information (MPI)
Walter von Lucadou

The usual interpretation of the trans-communication-phenomenon is the spiritualistic one. It assumes that information, which is received by different techniques (ITC) emerges from beyond and that "discarnate agencies" are sending messages. Sceptics maintain that ITC-phenomena are merely illusions. In spite of the fact that the origin of the messages may be unclear, a lot can be said about the "receiving system" namely the human "observer".
Whatever the origin of the ITC-phenomenon may be, the "messages" must fulfil certain requirement in order to yield any information. The Model of Pragmatic Information (MPI) is a theoretical framework, which describes the development of meaningful information from signals. This process depends on the context, novelty and confirmation of the message. In the framework of the MPI, meaning is a global variable in the sense of "Weak Quantum Theory" (WQT). Thus the structure of the MPI is "non-classical" and contains complementary observables exhibiting non-local features. These features liberate the ITC-phenomenon on one hand (to a certain extend) form the reign of space and time; on the other hand they impose certain limitations on the content of the messages, such that the phenomena remain elusive. From this point of view the problems of ITC are less of technical or psychological (as Batcheldor assumed) than of systemic origin.
Two fundamental cuts (the Cartesian and the Heisenbergian) of the universe are described and the concept of "organizational closure" is introduced. It is argued, that possession-type phenomena are no trans-communication phenomena it spite of the fact that the former often develop from the latter. Similarities with “poltergeist”-phenomena are discussed.
From the basic assumptions of MPI two main statements can be formulated:
1. Trans-communication phenomena are non-local correlations in psychophysical, self-organizing, organizationally closed systems, which are induced by the pragmatic information, which creates the system.
2. Any attempt to use a non-local correlation as a signal transfer makes the non-local correlation vanish or change or the effect changes in an unpredictable way.
For ITC-phenomena the MPI predicts that "messages" can only be obtained under conditions in which no control is exerted and that they remain elusive. They cannot surmount a certain limit of testable information. If ITC phenomena are too reliable or “too good”, it is highly probable that they are due to misinterpretation, failure, illusion, or even fraud (Timm’s rule)