Which paranormal ability might be real in the future?

[TheTelekinesiologist]

I think the future is now, actually. About a year ago I became deeply interested in telekinesis. I tried to develope it and suceeded with very tangable results. But i'm not the only one because people in school are able to do it also after being taught the basics. The only people that have a harder time with it, in my experience, are adults. Mabye it's just coincidental, but I think it may be evolution.

 

[TsarBomba]

In the future, the normal will be paranormal. We will no doubt have telepathy, but it won't be paranormal telepathy. In the not-so-distant future technology will bring us to the point where we can communicate with each other without taking out a PDA or cell phone and communicate with someone on the other side of the world. There will be no effective difference between this and telepathy, but it will be completely based on technology, and unlike telepathy, it will actually work.

For a good read on how this will happen, you can read the sci-fi novel Rainbow's End by Vernor Vinge. It provides very plausible examples of how we will have the functional equivilent of telepathy in the near future.

 

[TheTelekinesiologist]

In the future, the normal will be paranormal. We will no doubt have telepathy, but it won't be paranormal telepathy. In the not-so-distant future technology will bring us to the point where we can communicate with each other without taking out a PDA or cell phone and communicate with someone on the other side of the world. There will be no effective difference between this and telepathy, but it will be completely based on technology, and unlike telepathy, it will actually work.

Hmm...this definitly is a possibility...but have you ever thought of technology as the reason people don't use telepathy right now? Throughout history, when people came across a problem, they looked towards technology to aid them. I think if humanity had a different mindset, things would be very different now.

For Example:

Why should I fly to work when I can drive there? Why should I cook food with my mind when I could just pop it in the microwave?

 

[TsarBomba]

Hmm...this definitly is a possibility...but have you ever thought of technology as the reason people don't use telepathy right now? Throughout history, when people came across a problem, they looked towards technology to aid them. I think if humanity had a different mindset, things would be very different now.

I.E. If we weren't human, with human drives and a human nature that makes us want to change our envirnoment to suit our purposes rather than change (evolve) to suit our environment, would we have developed telephathy? This is, to put it mildly, as Penn might say on his radio show, bulls-clap-hit. As far as science can tell, no life on this planet has developed anything coming close to telepathy. Humans lived for a long time before we had language, which was a big development. If your theory had any weight, we would have developed telepathy first and never had a need for spoken language, but we didn't and now we can communicate quite well with each other. The only way any humanity will have the functional equivilent of telepathy is through our own technology.

For Example:

Why should I fly to work when I can drive there?

Because you can't fly, and neither could your ancestors for the past 3 billion years or so. If you could fly, you would be a bird, bat, insect, or flying dinosaur.

 

[Dave1001]

I've always loved novels where paranormal abilities exist and I've often wondered if humans might one day evolve an ability which is currently considered paranormal.

If that were ever to happen, which one do you think it would be?

All of them, pretty much.

 

[baron]

We used to have a cat who was deaf, and you could sneak up on him. That's how we realised he'd gone deaf.

I find that amusing in ways I can't explain. Maybe that cat was so tired of people sneaking up on him he decided to ignore them and was subsequently branded deaf. Or maybe he was just cat-atonic

My point for posting was not to speculate on cat deafness, however, just to comment that I found that Peter F Hamilton's sci-fi novels (especially the Night's Dawn trilogy) present a wonderfully plausible illustration of how future technology might enhance information sharing, effectively enabling human telepathy. Of course these are just sci-fi novels but I guess all speculation of the future is fictional to some extent.

 

[aries]

How exactly would you define paranormal abilities ? Is it the possibility
to be able to have remote viewing, supersonic hearing, cat like vision, meaning to be able to see in the dark, infrared vision and such ?

Or do you mean a progression of the tech advances that has been seen in recent years ?

I'm sure that the tech advances will still progress during the next decade or so. However, I'm not so sure that natural selection (evolution) will see that we are to say see in the dark, have infrared vision or have telepathy some time soon. This would mean altered genes, and then someone has to
find these altered genes, and then breed people wich have these alteres genes - just like we breed horses for instance.

Anyway, I'm sure that people aren't willing to let their genes examine - for this reason.

 

[jimbob]

Someone mentioned infrared earlier and that would be a really interesting ability. I know rattlesnakes can sense the heat coming from their prey (that's what the pit stands for in ) and it is claimed they can sense a difference of a very tiny amount. It even gives them a sort of depth perception. For people, they'd be able to "see" in the dark, or find a cooler place to hang out in the blazing sun.

I thinkl the trouble with this is that humans are warm-blooded, whilst pit-vipers aren't. Must make this trick easier. You'd need some fancy heat exchange system akinto penguins' legs to even have a hope of a mammal having this sort of ability.

Jim

 

[TheTelekinesiologist]

The only way any humanity will have the functional equivilent of telepathy is through our own technology.

I agree completely with the whole ancestor thing totally. The only problem is...the truth hurts. When I say that I mean I have seen telepathy and telekinesis and have also succeded in doing some of it myself. So I cannot fully accept your theory because I've seen evidence in both cases. So if they both exist, I guess it's up to people to decide which path to take, which will probably take place in the future.

 

[Mojo]

I think the future is now, actually. About a year ago I became deeply interested in telekinesis. I tried to develope it and suceeded with very tangable results.

Could you give us a bit more infomation as to the nature of these "tangible results"?

 

[The Atheist]

I think the future is now, actually. About a year ago I became deeply interested in telekinesis. I tried to develope it and suceeded with very tangable results. But i'm not the only one because people in school are able to do it also after being taught the basics. The only people that have a harder time with it, in my experience, are adults. Mabye it's just coincidental, but I think it may be evolution.

Wow! I missed this, I thought the thread had died a natural death.

Mate, nobody's going to notice you in here. I've started a new thread here for you to discuss this.

LOTS of people in here will be just a little interested to find a real telekinesiologist in their midst!

Cheers.

 

[SirPhilip]

I've always loved novels where paranormal abilities exist and I've often wondered if humans might one day evolve an ability which is currently considered paranormal. If that were ever to happen, which one do you think it would be?

Almost anything considered 'woo' can conceptually exist without being a genuine supernatural event. An example being the Jedi in Star Wars being able to unbalance the laws of nature to a limited degree, and even technology like hyperdrives. Contrast the repulsorlift, which presses against a gravity well, to the Jedi ability to isolate the same process to pull a lightsaber from a distance.

 

[NobbyNobbs]

I don't know if it even counts as paranormal; more of a physics problem really, I don't rule out time travel.

And putting in my two cents for telepathy as well.

I've just come from 500 years in the future to let you know that I'm pretty sure you're right. It is time travel.

 

[TsarBomba]

I agree completely with the whole ancestor thing totally. The only problem is...the truth hurts. When I say that I mean I have seen telepathy and telekinesis and have also succeded in doing some of it myself. So I cannot fully accept your theory because I've seen evidence in both cases. So if they both exist, I guess it's up to people to decide which path to take, which will probably take place in the future.

You make quite a claim there. Apparently the laws of physics do not apply up in the Great White North. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. You make an extraordinary claim, so let's see the evidence. Your statments are so ridiculous that I can only conclude that you are playing some kind of game where you see how easy it is to bait skeptics by your claims of moving objects with the power of your mind. The only other possibility is that you are deluded.

If you really think that you can move objects with your mind, stop writing in this forum and PROVE IT TO THE WORLD! The airheads on television would love--I REPEAT LOVE--a story like that. If you can't prove it, your ramblings are not even worth the paper that they are not printed on.

 

[The Atheist]

Come here and have a chat, this thread had died and a real telekinesiologist in our midst at least deserves his own thread!

 

[Spektator]

In the future, we will all spontaneously develop the spoon-bending ability. Tragically, mankind will go extinct when billions of people, unable to eat their breakfast cereal, die of malnutrition.

 

[omegablue]

I think telepathy, and these claimed effects of distant healing.

There is already a huge ammount of supporting evidence for telepathy and ESP, that for some reasons which remains mostly unknown, they are all rejected, mocked or forced to be forgotten. Even Carl Sagan at some stage of his life said that the evidence for telepathy deserved serious further investigation. You can read about it and much more on Dean Radin´s books, like "The Conscious Universe". I think honestly, Radin can hardly be called a "woo".

 

[WWHP]

hmmm, would extended longevity or biological immortality count as currently paranormal?

I think biological immortality is a distinct possibility in our future, and extended lifespans of 500 years plus is something that we all may live to see. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llvP-7XgTEE&mode=related&search=

I think this is the most exciting, for if true, chances are we will see many more amazing advancements in our evolution within our lifetime.

 

[Fnord]

"Which paranormal ability might be real in the future?"

Well ... extrapolating on current developments in recombinant DNA techniques, I'll take a few WAGs at this question...

1) Enhanced Senses:
- Extended visual spectrum and/or low light vision.
- Extended audio spectrum and/or extra-sensitive hearing.
- Electric and/or magnetic field tactile enhancement.
- Olfactory enhancement ("Bloodhound Man!").

2) Regeneration:
- Rapid healing without scarring.
- Regrow lost limbs at will.
- Extended lifespan.
- At-will cosmetic changes.

3) Intellect:
- Eidetic memory.
- Enhanced reasoning.
- Rapid Learning.

4) Intuition:
- Truth Detection (could simulate telepathy).
- Battle Sense (martial artists and fencers have this through training only; they can anticipate the next blow, where it comes from, and what it will be be by the way his opponent stands and moves.)

5) Reflexes:
- Battle Reflexes (faster than a speeding dagger).
- Battle Sight (sees everything else slowed down around them; think "Matrix").

There may be others, based on extrapolations of the known senses, and none would need to be woo-based!

-Fnord of Dyscordia-

 

[The Atheist]

There is already a huge ammount of supporting evidence for telepathy and ESP, that for some reasons which remains mostly unknown, they are all rejected, mocked or forced to be forgotten.

How's it possible you can have been a member here for two years and come out with that?

Let me correct you:

There is still NO supporting evidence for telepathy and ESP...

I take it in all the time you've been here you haven't met my buddy unter, yet.