Some of the most sought-after of those skills include telekinesis, an ability that lets us interact with physical objects using only our thoughts. The hope for evolved human potential has spawned a host of pop-culture characters capable of wielding psychokinetic powers with both benign and deadly intent. From wise-beyond-her-years Matilda Wormwood to the aggrieved Carrie White — not to mention the entire Jedi order — telekinetic powers occupy a special place in the human cultural lexicon.
Could humans eventually evolve abilities like Eleven? What is telekinesis, exactly? Do documented cases already exist? What role does technology play in these possible next stages of human evolution? Read on — or use your telekinetic abilities to instantly download the article into your brain.
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Strength often varies from user to user depending on the origin of their powers, training, age, and so on. The caveat? For its part, the Flayer looked on from its Upside Down domain, watching the Snow Ball dance and keeping an eye on those meddlesome kids. No conclusive evidence was ever found to support telekinetic abilities.
Again, these efforts have been unsuccessful. So maybe moving objects with our minds is out of reach right now — but what about in the future? Could the next stages of human evolution include PK abilities? From a purely biological standpoint, probably not. As noted by Psychology Today , technology could help bridge the gap between mind and matter by leveraging brain-computer interfaces BCIs to allow direct control over computers and other connected devices without the need for tactile or voice interaction.
Mind-meld emails might seem unimpressive but could pave the way for a brave new world of telekinetic powers. Bottom line? Being on the forefront of change, especially regarding space, physics, and engineering has been part of the Northrop Grumman culture for generations.
That's an old joke, but there are several claimed types of psychic powers, including precognition knowing the future and telepathy describing things at a remote location. But for sheer impressiveness it's hard to beat psychokinesis, the ability to move objects through mind power. The word is derived from the Greek words for "mind" and "motion" and is also called PK or telekinesis. Fictional psychokinetics are easy to find: The popular X-Men comic and film franchise includes the character Jean Grey, whose powers include extrasensory perception and psychokinesis.
The movie "Push" is about a group of young Americans with various psychic abilities who team up and use their paranormal powers against a shadowy U. Though many Americans believe in psychic ability about 15 percent of us, according to a Baylor Religion Survey , scientific evidence for its existence remains elusive. Some people even link psychokinesis to the spiritual world, suggesting for example that some reports of ghosts — such as poltergeists — are not manifestations of the undead at all, but instead the unconscious releases of a person's psychic anger or angst.
If people could move everyday objects with nothing more than their thoughts, this should be quite easy to demonstrate: Who wouldn't like their latte delivered by a psychic barista from across the counter, floating it right to your hand with a mere gesture? This doesn't happen, of course. Instead researchers have focused on what they term "micro-PK," or the manipulation of very small objects.
The idea is that if the ability exists, its force is obviously very weak. Therefore, the less physical energy that would have to be exerted on an object to physically move it, the more obvious the effect should be. For this reason, laboratory experiments often focus on rather mundane feats such as trying to make dice land on a certain number at an above-chance rate, or influencing a computerized random number generator.
Because of this change in methodologies, psychokinesis experiments rely more heavily on complex statistical analyses; the issue was not whether a person could bend a spoon or knock a glass over with their minds, for example, but whether they could make a coin come up heads significantly above 50 percent of the time over the course of 1, trials.
The idea of people being able to move objects through mind power alone has intrigued people for centuries, though only in the late s was it seen as an ability that might be scientifically demonstrated. Though many people were convinced — including, ironically, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes — it was all a hoax.
Fraudulent psychics resorted to trickery, using everything from hidden wires to black-clad accomplices to make objects appear to move untouched. As the public slowly grew wise to the faked psychokinesis, the phenomenon faded from view. It was revived again in the s and s, when a researcher at Duke University named J.
Rhine became interested in the idea that people could affect the outcome of random events using their minds.
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