Documented: super-psi, the hypothesis that living-agent psi can simulate every phenomenon attributed to the dead, was sharpened by philosopher Stephen Braude across Immortal Remains (2003) and related papers, against survivalists like Jeffrey Mishlove and the SPR tradition. Braude's documented position: the best cases, trance mediumship, drop-in communicators, reincarnation claims, cannot exclude living-agent psi, so survival remains unproven; his critics answer that super-psi is so unconstrained it explains everything and therefore nothing.
The methodological problem, documented on both sides: super-psi has no stated limits, any evidence for survival can be redescribed as living-agent psi, which makes survival unfalsifiable and super-psi untestable. Thanosis stages this duel as its opening chapter precisely because the deadlock is real: the same case file supports the ghost and the telepath, and no experiment has been designed that could convict one and acquit the other.
The reading the archive keeps: super-psi is technically the skeptical position and emotionally the radical one, it grants that minds can reach across distance, into locked archives, into other minds, while denying only the one thing most people hoped for, that anyone survives. It is skepticism with the comfort removed, which may be why it has no fan base.
If the living can fake the dead that convincingly, which hypothesis is the comforting one?