> merely thinking about things can lead to physical changes in the world Her claims are hardly akin to moving objects through telekinesis. Your brain is part

> merely thinking about things can lead to physical changes in the world Her claims are hardly akin to moving objects through telekinesis. Your brain is part of your nervous system which has massive control over your body. What happens in your brain obvious leads to changes in your body. Beyond the obvious "I think about moving my arm and then my arm moves" there is a ton of hard research to back up the ability of thoughts and moods to influence the autonomic systems of the body. Why are the things Langer is suggesting fundamentally different? Clearly more evidence is needed to prove many of her specific claims, and many of them may turn out to be noise, but the basic premise hardly seems worth dismissing. Descartes was 400 years ago.