Telekinesis or psychokinesis defines an alleged psychic ability through which humans could influence, modify, and move physical objects through the mind. Science fiction? Pseudoscience and superstition, what would dear Carl Sagan say?
In addition to this theme that inevitably reminds us of scenes from films like Star Wars and the Jedi, the carrie White character in Stephen King’s novel or the Character Eleven in Stranger Things, there’s an important detail to keep in mind.
- This topic began to attract the attention of scientists during the Cold War.
- After more than thirty years of various studies no evidence has been found that the mind has power over matter.
- However.
- An interesting possibility has recently been opened up.
With the development of so-called neurotechnologies, such as Neuralink, figures like Elon Musk show us that, soon, will humans be able to interact with different devices through the mind?And an interface, as Arthur C once said, is it sometimes just a science we still don’t quite understand?
Telekinesis was first invented in 1914, but it was not until 1934 that parapsychologist JB Rhine began studying this phenomenon on an experimental level, unfortunately to this day it has not been shown that humans are able to mentally influence external objects or events without using physical energy.
The truth is that over time, the phenomenon of telekinesis or psychokinesis has generated considerable interest, however, most of the research on this topic took place mainly during the Cold War. The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine conducted the most prominent research in the 1980s, at the request of the United States Army Research Institute.
The conclusions reached are the same as those reached today by the experts. Let’s see them.
One of the most prominent figures studying the phenomenon of telekinesis is british physicist John G. Taylor, who, according to him, currently does not have a physical mechanism for psychokinesia, for some reasons that we will explain below.
Nina Kulagina was one of the best known and studied figures in the field of telekinesis, was born in Russia in 1926, joined the Red Army at the age of 14 and during World War II was a member of the tank regiment. Was it after the war, when you became a housewife, that you started showing something out of the ordinary?
Nina moved objects without touching them. It soon began to be studied by a committee of Soviet experts, who subjected it to endless tests and experiments. Her case is one of the best known of the Cold War period, and there are even curious black-and-white recordings in which she could see herself separating the buds from the clears submerged in the water and moving matches with her mind.
As she explained, this ability appeared more intensely when she was angry, after these experiences, did she also say that she was exhausted and had pain in her spine and eyes?Finally (he said), he eventually lost this capacity due to storms, whose electrical phenomena diminished him.
Was Nina Kulagina really a person with telekinetic powers?Is there any suspicion that the Soviet Union itself popularized and manipulated women’s abilities with clear propaganda purposes?
If we now say that telekinesis will be a reality in the near future, many will question us how will this be done if we have shown for decades that this skill is unlikely and defies known physics?
Well, very recently, Elon Musk presented us with his company Neuralink, an organization oriented, no more or less, to develop a technology capable of creating bridges between the brain and machines. What’s the point? Especially the doctor: treat blindness, movement problems, neurodegenerative diseases?
Now the goal is to go further and, of course, to question many of the things that we think are right, one of them could be the creation of autonomous cars that we can drive with our minds, this form of telepathy will be mediated by small interfaces that will allow communication between us and the car computer.
Apparently what was missing in the psychic and biological universe was just the alliance of technology to make something that humans had been dreaming of for decades.