TELEPATHY: GOOD ENOUGH FOR GOVERNMENT WORK (BUT TELEKINESIS IS A NONSTARTER)

The other-minds problem and the explanatory gap are connected. It is precisely because telekinesis is false that the causal status of the mental (i.e., feeling) is the conundrum that it is. Given our cartesian certainty that feeling does indeed exist (in at least one's own case), it's then just ordinary empirical risk to infer that it's there in others that are exactly, or almost exactly like us. Telepathy is not infallible, but it's "good enough for government work." Telekinesis, in contrast, is a nonstarter, DOA...