I'm talking about in a tangible sense -- like an electric eel having a very observable physiology and organs adapted to concentrating and emitting an electrical charge. Water-dwelling animals have a far greater use and likelihood of evolving these aspects because water is a better means of directing and conducting it, for "personal gain," than gaseous/air atmosphere.
Of COURSE our nervous systems are based on electrochemical impulses that are measurable. My point is that a human being - and every other land animal, has no means of creating and conducting an electrical charge or electromagnetic force (beyond that created in day-to-day neurological function). We simply haven't evolved that way.
Human bodies have been dissected and examined for over a thousand years, probably longer, and every organ has been accounted for. Tell me how a human being, living in a gaseous atmosphere, is going to generate, focus and emit a concentrated electromagnetic or other field that is capable of moving a solid object? Other than blasting away a piece of paper with a fart, or similar such exploitation of said gaseous atomosphere.
donjitsu2 wrote:Interloper wrote:For example, there has been absolutely no indication that the human nervous system is able to emit detectible electrical/electromagnetic charges or fields. We simply have not evolved in that direction.
That isn't even close to true.
Our nervous system and heart both produce electromagnetic energy as a result of their normal day-to-day functioning. In fact, most metabolic processes produce some form of electromagnetic energy. When put under pressure (such as being squeezed during a muscular contraction) our bones produce small amounts of electricity - this is called the piezoelectric effect.
These bioelectromagnetic fields are easily detectable.
Electroencephalography (EEG, or the study of the electromagnetic field emitted by the brain via scalp sensors), Electrocardiography (ECG, or the study of the electrical activity of the heart via sensors placed on the skin near the heart), and Electromyography (EMG, or the study of electrical activity produced by skeletal muscles) would not exist if this weren't true.
It's one thing to say that human beings don't produce/will never be capable of producing enough electromagnetic energy to physically move another human being....BUT it is pretty ignorant to state we simply don't produce an EM Field - because it has long be an established scientific fact that we do.
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