Human evolution from a scientific stantpoint - Scientific debate, not a religious one

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Now, my theory is rather sketchy, but it should still make sense. WHAT IF the brain was able to send these types of signals OUTSIDE the body? To create say...a field of energy produced by the brain. So instead of the brain sending a signal to the arm, hand and fingers in order to manipulate an object, the brain sends the signals to the object itself, and the energy is capable of physical contact

Well, since you kindly stated that your theory was sketchy, I wouldn't term it as a logical fallacy.. as I usually do.. *cougH* .. but I can read a little bit of sense to your theory. But this is the way I see it. You said that if the brain could send these signals outside the body... but you forget one thing my friend.. Theses signals aren't the air. There are neurons that carry these signals that the brain uses to control the body to the arm and other parts of the body. These neurons are in fact matter.. they have weight and occupy space.. thus, they cannot be transferred from inside the body to outside the body.

The brain is a very special organ that it is... but it's abilities are limited. What it does, is work in a mechanical manner. The only thing that differentiates us as humans from machines is the ability to make sometimes.. stupid decisions. A machine.. wouldn't say.. if it could drive, want to cross a red light; except it has been programeed otherwhise. But as a human might be in a hurry and would want to run it... and would try as much as possible to do that. Thus our brain is in our will.. There are in fact voluntary and involuntary actions that our brains perform and the voluntary ones are way more than the involuntary ones.. Thus I'd have to conclude that if the human body as a whole reaches the level of telepathy or ever has psionic abilities (i love that word.. :biggrin: ) then the brain wouldn't be the focal organ that would control it.

Therefore, even though you may not think you're physically touching an object 5 feet away from you, your brain is making it happen by using energy and tricking the environment into "thinking" that it's actually being manipulated.

Forgive me if I attack ur theories head on like it's something to be proven soon.. but I just don't see that happening.. Energy is neither created nor destroyed.. but it can be transferred from one form to another.. First law of thermodynamics.. now there has to be a permeable or non permeable tract for energy to be converted.. It can't just go from one point to another the way you've described it. You talk of the untapped potential energy of the brain... well fine. I don't know what inside this block head of mine.. but even if there is potential energy.. How on earth or even jupiter would it be transferred to kinetic energy. You can manipulate urself into thinking that the object would move.. but according to Newton's first law of motion.. that object would remain in its state of Inertia!

We havn't FULLY adapted to our environment, I apologize for not elaborating on that. For the MOST PART we have, but there are still aspects of our environment that are harmful and we are not used to, that could still warrant slight physical changes to our anatomy in order to adapt

True.. but so is the shark and the whale. They aren't living the perfect life.. so to say in the ocean.. Sure they're well adapted.. there are still somethings that'll hurt them.. that doesn't mean they'll evolve again. Who knows.. maybe the body wasn't made to reach perfection.. We might have gone far and evolved much.. but what if we weren't supposed to be perfect. Also note the fact that the environment is a parameter that defines at what level the body would work or evolve.. optimum effeciency so to say.. and with the ever changing environment we live in.. it's hard to note what kind of evolving our body would go through in order to counter that sort of change. :biggrin:

-- may the biggrin be with you. :biggrin:

--nuff said! :biggrin: