I’d like to insert some basic physics into your discussion Wonderland.
All I want to say is there are two ways used by humans to fly at “low” energies: The first is by increasing the float so it is stronger than gravity (Like an airship, for instance) and second, creating areas with low pressure so that they will “suck” the object up (Like an aeroplane and an helicopter). Those are the only ways to fly without using very high amounts of energies (Such as magnets, or rockets).
So yeah, if we do can fly, it will probably be one of those three ways: Either increasing our float enough Or draining our weight, Which means: EIther we keep the same mass and get extremly big, or we remove enough mass, or we decrease the earth gravity. Since I assume you cannot do any of those in ANY way (Imagine becoming as big as a building to fly…), then it must be some other way: Either create a low pressure area or just pull the air.
To do both those you need to move yourself or the air around you at great speeds: So in fact, anyone flying would create extreme winds around them. I believe you don’t think this to be the case either.
Now, unless you can use the friction with air to drag yourself up, the only way known to humans is by using a very high source of energy: Either pull or push yourself at great energies.
Assuming we can spend such energies, and we just don’t want to, or restrain ourselves in any other way - won’t atleast a portion of them seep through, affecting our day to day lives with exceptions to science? Won’t there will be found, in the nearly seven billion residents of the earth atleast some of this energy? What of non-civilized humans? They have no science, and still they don’t fly. Why? Do they not want to?
Therfore, even without claiming people can’t fly - I don’t wish to do that - I instead wish to defend science. The fault is not in the fact we research our world; The fault is, if we ever had the ability to fly, much older than that: It is of rulers and relegions, making people always be acertain there are greater forces then them who are allowed to do much more than them, while they are restrained by their laws and thinking paradigims (I think that’s the word, please don’t kill me)
Anyway, I’m not here to make any of you “understand we can’t fly”. I’m here to make you understand that you can’t blame science for everything we can’t do.
By the way - even if we can fly by using extreme energies (Labeled as you may wish) it will have to pull or push every part of our body simultaneously, or else it will be painful to fly at reletavly low speeds (run speeds, I think). If it does pull all our body at the same time - Then it probably is something that resides in every cell of ours, and not just the mind or heart.
One last thing - I understand it was just a matter of an analogy, and that you mean, at least at some layer, that we can do whatever we want to. But its different, much different than flying.
PS: Sorry for ranting! Hope its readable.