Psychokinesis

The term psychokinesis (from the Greek ψυχή, "psyche", meaning mind, soul, heart, or breath; and κίνησις, "kinesis", meaning motion, movement; literally "mind-movement"),^[1][2] also known as telekinesis^[3] (Greek τῆλε + κίνησις, literally "distant-movement"), sometimes abbreviated PK and TK respectively, is a term coined by publisher Henry Holt^[4] to refer to the direct influence of mind on a physical system that cannot be entirely accounted for by the mediation of any known physical energy.^[5] Examples of psychokinesis could include distorting or moving an object,^[6] and influencing the output of a random number generator.^[5][7][8]

How do humans think

I asked my roomate how he thinks remembers. He told me that he remembers something that happened to him when he is 2 years old. But when I asked him if he remembers what he read on internet yesterday he does not remember that. How is this possible. Why does our brain chooses to remember somethings and forget others. After a long discussion this is the conclusion we arrived at.

Our brain stores the impact something had on us. Bigger the impact more the chances of it being stored. I am not involved in the pshycological aspect of this. What interest me is that brain stores the impressions we leave upon it. Just like when we draw a line in sand, bigger the line longer it stays.

Next we discussed on how the information is retrieved from our brain.

to be continued

Why did life originate

It is definitely one of the most debated questions.

So what are the two most common opinions.

1) God created everything one fine morning.
2) The life started as single celled organisms in earth in its early stages and then evolved thereafter.

I certainly would like to not talk about the first option because then it does not need any further explanation. So let us try to anayze the second option of evolution.

The single celled organism that we study in our biology text is amoeba. An amoeba forming automatically from a primordial soup in earth is like a tornado assembling a Ferrari car from its parts. In fact mathematically speaking scientists considers this probability to be one in ten to the power 40000. Others consider it worse than that. If you have not seen a amoeba it looks like this.

Either there should have been another form of simpler life forms before anything like this originated. This points us the fundamental question of what is life. What are the conditions to call something alive. Are humans alive?. Is a car alive?. Is a computer alive?. Is a stone alive?. Is a single atom of hydrogen molecule alive?.

What are the common tasks that a living organism do?

1) Have a energy generating system to maintain all its components

2) Self replicate.

3) Throw away waste materials.

4) Is a collection of parts where each part has a defined role which is helpful in the survival of other parts.

If you observe it is a completely well organised smoothly working interdependent set of molecules.

Can life forming proteins and amino acids be created from prehistoric conditions in earth. This would be a good time to bring your attention to revolutionary Miller - Urey experiment. He showed that amino acids can be formed from a very simple set up of prehistoric conditions.

In an interview, Stanley Miller stated: "Just turning on the spark in a basic pre-biotic experiment will yield 11 out of 20 amino acids."

Swami vivekananda on meditation

"Meditation has been laid stress upon by all religions. The meditative state of mind is declared by the Yogis to be the highest state in which the mind exists. When the mind is studying the external object, it gets identified with it, loses itself. To use the simile of the old Indian philosopher: the soul of man is like a piece of crystal, but it takes the colour of whatever is near it. Whatever the soul touches ... it has to take its colour. That is the difficulty. That constitutes the bondage. The colour is so strong, the crystal forgets itself and identifies itself with the colour. Suppose a red flower is near the crystal and the crystal takes the colour and forgets itself, thinks it is red. We have taken the colour of the body and have forgotten what we are. All the difficulties that follow come from that one dead body. All our fears, all worries, anxieties, troubles, mistakes, weakness, evil, are from that one great blunder — that we are bodies. This is the ordinary person. It is the person taking the colour of the flower near to it. We are no more bodies than the crystal is the red flower."