The powers of the mind

[Dark-Angel]

Me being my very knowledgable self, i look up weird stuff

I found this thing a long while back called telekinesis. I did research on it and found other abilities such as electrokinesis, hydrokinesis, pyrokinesis, terra/tetrakinesis etc For you'se who dont know telekinesis is the ability to move things (wow)...with your mind.
Likewise electro... is manipulating electricity, hydro- water, pyro- fire, terra/tetra- earth. There are many other but

Is this for real or not, can it ACTUALLY be developed. i think so my proof

Scientists say we use well under 50% of our brain (roughly 30%), what the fuck is that other percentage used for? Is it our untapped power? I think so You can say i have a wvery open view on things

So, discuss what you think. Angelus, i'd be very interested to see what you think coz i look up to you as another knowledgable person

 

[Moogles]

While taking a course called Science & Nonsense last term, my class covered many topics dealing with paranormal abilities. Clairvoyance, telepathy, extra sensory perception, telekinesis...the works.

Frankly, I think it's all a load of crap. There is no concrete scientific proof that'd support any claim of such abilities existing. Many have tried to prove that they possess paranormal abilities, but they're always proven to be fraudulent.

But hey! If you ever discover that you have psychic abilities, get in contact with James Randi and he'll give you $1,000,000 if you can prove you have such abilities.

 

[Soul Saver]

Hmmm. I would say that the possibility of such psychic powers cannot be ruled out. However, the vast majority of people who claim to have such abilities are frauds, if not all of them.
There is no hard evidence for such, but the same is true for the existence of extra-terrestrial life forms(publicly, at least).

Also, I'm sure that figure is actually below 20%. There is no doubt that the human mind can be very powerful, at least in an imaginative, calculating and analytical sense, but the possibilities and mechanics of telepathy and telekinesis, and so on, would be alot more complicated than that.
I have had more than a few experiences where I have known exactly what people are going to say, word by word, before they say it, woken up at the exact time I wanted to without an alarm clock, and known almost the exact time without looking at a watch, but this could be attributed to something else. From experience, you can read people's lips or predict which words and sentence structures people are going to use. The mental and physical "body clock" can also be quite accurate.

 

[der Astronom]

The idea that we are using 11% of our brain is just a myth--someone actually took the word of some scientist who actually didn't mean it, and it ended up in some report, so now everyone believes it.

Even if you could assume that we only used a particular portion of our brain, it tells us nothing about what the other portion might be used for, much less, if it could be used or even had a use. To conclude that such abilities are possible because there's a part of our brain we don't use is too far-fetched, and might remain to be nothing more than something out of a science fiction story.

It's too soon to say that it's possible.

 

[Deleted member 176]

Feel the need to add to what angelus said;

WE use 100% of our brain, just not at the same time. We have mapped out what more or less every area of the brain is used for, and there isn't a "energy waves" section

People have always been fooled by these "psychic ability" claims simply because most people dont understand HOW their mind works.

People use examples like "I woke up and i KNEW something was wrong, then i got a phone call that so and so was in hospital."

Very good, but you also wake up knowing something is wrong about 10 times every night, and fall back asleep again and forget all about it. Just because one time something kept you awake doesn't mean shit

Equally people who can "read minds" Are just doing the same thing any talented psychoanalyst can do. The only difference is that the psychoanalyst knows what they are seeing and can translate it logically, whereas the "psychic" translates it without knowing how they are doing it. Obviously this also makes them somewhat less reliable.

The human mind is already the single most complex and powerful oganism we know of in the in universe, stuff like "and it does OTHER cool things we don't know about!" is kinda unneccesary IMO

 

[Zelpa]

Though the human mind is very powerful, I doubt it's THAT powerful to be able to develop abilities such as those. When it comes to Psychics and all of that, I'm very skeptical, considering how they fail to provide actual proof of their abilities.

 

[Rockman X]

Me being my very knowledgable self, i look up weird stuff

Scientists say we use well under 50% of our brain (roughly 30%), what the fuck is that other percentage used for? Is it our untapped power? I think so

I'm sorry to say this, but you're not as knowledgeable as you like to think if you believe that. Angelus is right, that whole "U ONLY USE 10% OF YER BRAIN" idea is a load of crap. Part of the reason that myth has been perpetuated is because of people who like to think that if we unlock that "unused" 90% of our brain, we'll become superhuman. The idea can be used to convince people of a certain belief, get them to buy stuff, etc. Here, educate yourself.

Now onto the actual topic. Do I think psychic powahz exist? It's possible, though highly improbable. If they do somehow happen to exist, it is only due to flukes. If gaining psychic abilities was as easy as figuring out how to unlock hidden powers, don't you think that people would have figured out how to do it on a mass scale by now?