Quote Originally Posted by Spooniest View Post
"The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao."

Believe in clairvoyance, telepathy, synchronicity? Sure!

Believe in them being reliably perceptible by human beings for a business to be run that provides accurate service to each individual customer?

...That seems far-fetched.
Any type of clairvoyance, telepathy, synchronicity, whatever, that actually exists can be analyzed to determine under what circumstances it does and does not work, to discover its limits, and to figure out exactly how to make it produce reproducible results. Science is not a mystical impenetrable magic - it is made of rules of logic. There is no such thing as something that "disappears when you try to analyze it with science" (and don't talk to me about the uncertainty principle, because that has reproducible results - we not only know what becomes uncertain, we can tell you in advance exactly how much of it becomes uncertain).

And of course, once you figure out the rules of something, even if it disappears and reappears under certain circumstances, you can still build a business out of it.

That doesn't, of course, mean that the business model must necessarily resemble the ones we see today. But if something exists, it exists whether or not you try to make money off of it.