Psionics for bodily functions

[Darekun]

Originally Posted by jason taylor

My point was that the difference between controlling muscles with ones mind and controlling something else in your body with your mind seems a matter of degree because both originate in the same place and whether or not the mind exists is a side issue.

The difference is that one uses a medium subject to extra power modifiers.

Originally Posted by Johnny1A.2

Unless the above theological statement turns out to be untrue.

Nobody knows how consciousness works.

What you're talking about is entirely upstream of the matter at hand. At least some portion of the control is empirically electrochemical, because it has been taken over by crude electrical means. (Generally one "lever" per individual, but that's just a matter of crudity.) So by the time the medium is observable, it's already in an electrochemical medium. These guys transition to a fictional medium and then back, and save on electrochemical bits; for humans, it just stays electrochemical.