This is a question for psychologists about the so called paranormal.?

Question

Telekinesis or psychokinesis is the moving of a physical object by a mental willing it to move. Doesn't this happen every time you think to move an arm or a leg to walk? The willful thought somehow causes a neuron or neurons in the brain to "fire" releasing neurotransmitters and a cascade of neurons extending to the body part to be moved results finally in the activation of a muscle. This entire cascade train is something physical but a willful thought is not yet it causes the start of the neuron cascade.How can this be?

Answer 1

If you could figure out that you would have solved the mystery of consciousness. But, the system you describe is integrated. Telekinesis would violate the laws of physics, as we understand them.

Answer 2

You're talking about two entirely different things, my freind. Telekinesis allegedly is the moving of an inanimate object without making physical contact with it, and merely using your powers of thought. (By the way, no one, including the once famous Uri Geller, has ever been able to do this feat in a controlled environment. Geller once tried his craft in an experiment in a Stanford Univ. lab, buyt failed. He stalked out, claiming that negative thoughts in the room ruined his attempts!) Also, we now have scales that can detect the weight of a speck of dust, or a human hair less than half an inch long, yet NO one claiming to have telekinesis has ever moved them!
The human neuro system, on the other hand, is merely an organic system that can be compared to a computer. The brain is the cpu, and the nerves are the circuits. Your conscience thought to move an arm is equal to a mouse click on an icon showing an arm moving. The CPU sends the message thru the circuits, and the arm moves. There is no telekinesis involved because there is a physical conduit connecting thought and movement.

Answer 3

What does this question have to do with psychology?
(This is like asking a christian if Jesus was mentally ill.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychokinesis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parapsychology

A survey of more than 1,100 college professors in the United States found that 55% of natural scientists, 66% of social scientists (excluding psychologists), and 77% of academics in the arts, humanities, and education believed that ESP is either an established fact or a likely possibility. The comparable figure for psychologists was only 34%. Moreover, an equal number of psychologists declared ESP to be an impossibility, a view expressed by only 2% of all other respondents (Wagner; Monnet, 1979).

http://www.trvnews.com/tsl/031502/index.html

Each person possesses the innate ability to remote view, just as they have the ability to speak. But like language, remote viewing skills must be trained properly in order to be effective. As humans, we are born with the ability to use our vocal chords to make noises, but we can not effectively communicate with others until we first learn a language that uses commonly understood and accepted grammatical structure. Technical Remote Viewing is the language in which the human mind perceives psychically derived data, and transmits it to conscious awareness

Answer 4

I am not always agree that things moved only by a mental willing, it must be something else involved. Maybe we don't have enough definition yet for this phenomenon. Unfortunately, there were no person with this ability showup and tell us scientifically about what they feel and do with this stuff. I always believe there are more to explore from human body and mental.