A psicocinese ("movimento mental"), telecinesia[1][2][3][4] ("movimento à distância") ou psi-kappa[5] descreve o suposto fenômeno ou capacidade de uma pessoa movimentar, manipular, abalar ou exercer força sobre um sistema físico sem interação física, apenas usando a mente.[6][7][8] O termo psicocinese foi criado em 1914 pelo autor estadunidense Henry Holt e popularizado pelo parapsicólogo estadunidense J.B. Rhine nos anos 30.[9][10][11][12][13] Já o termo telecinesia foi criado em 1890 pelo parapsicólogo russo Alexandre Aksakof.[14]
Historicamente, tem-se questionado e criticado a telecinesia pelo fato de não ser empiricamente demonstrável, apontando-se como principais falhas a falta de controle e de repetibilidade dos experimentos, dois pilares do método científico. Por consenso na comunidade científica, a telecinesia é tida como uma pseudociência,[15] apesar de ser defendida como autêntica por estudiosos da parapsicologia,[16] ela própria considerada uma pseudociência.[17][18][19][20]
Animação demonstrando como ocorreria a telecinesia
↑Erin McKean, [principal editor]., ed. (8 de abril de 2005). The New Oxford American Dictionary. New York City: Oxford University Press. p. 1367. ISBN978-0-19-517077-1. OCLC123434455. psycho. comb. form relating to the mind or psychology: . . . from Greek psukhe breath, soul, mind.
↑Holt, Henry (1914). On the Cosmic Relations(PDF). Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: Houghton Mifflin Company / Riverside Press. Consultado em 13 de dezembro de 2007
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↑Myers, Frederic William Henry (December 1890). Proceedings. London, England: Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. "For the alleged movements without contact... M. Aksakof's new word 'telekinetic' seems to me the best attainable." Nota: está citação também pode ser vista na pág. 722 ido "Oxford English Dictionary, 2ª edição", 1989, Clarendon Press, Oxford, England, ISBN 978-0-19-861229-2
Bunge, Mario (1983). Treatise on Basic Philosophy: Volume 6: Epistemology & Methodology II: Understanding the World. Springer. p. 226. "Despite being several thousand years old, and having attracted a large number of researchers over the past hundred years, we owe no single firm finding to parapsychology: no hard data on telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, or psychokinesis."
Vyse, Stuart (2000). Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition 1st ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 129. ISBN9780195136340. Consultado em 11 de dezembro de 2015. [M]ost scientists, both psychologists and physicists, agree that it has yet to be convincingly demonstrated.
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↑Gross, Paul R; Levitt, Norman; Lewis, Martin W (1996), The Flight from Science and Reason, ISBN978-0801856761, New York Academy of Sciences, p. 565, The overwhelming majority of scientists consider parapsychology, by whatever name, to be pseudoscience.
↑Friedlander, Michael W (1998), At the Fringes of Science, ISBN0-8133-2200-6, Westview Press, p. 119, Parapsychology has failed to gain general scientific acceptance even for its improved methods and claimed successes, and it is still treated with a lopsided ambivalence among the scientific community. Most scientists write it off as pseudoscience unworthy of their time.
↑Pigliucci, Massimo; Boudry, Maarten (2013), Philosophy of Pseudoscience: Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem, ISBN978-0-226-05196-3, University Of Chicago Press, p. 158, Many observers refer to the field as a 'pseudoscience'. When mainstream scientists say that the field of parapsychology is not scientific, they mean that no satisfying naturalistic cause-and-effect explanation for these supposed effects has yet been proposed and that the field's experiments cannot be consistently replicated.