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Let's not forget that speaking/talking is telepathy, right people? Speech crosses all the boxes: -- It's invisible, travels via 'waves' -- The 'waves' I us
by SCHiM 10y ago
Let's not forget that speaking/talking is telepathy, right people? Speech crosses all the boxes:
-- It's invisible, travels via 'waves'
-- The 'waves' I use to speak can cause your brain to show you images
-- It can convey emotions, thoughts, images.
-- It can be used to persuade others, change the way they think about a subject.
-- **tree**. Did it work? Did you see a tree?
Of course recognising that speech really does check all the boxes is kind of a let down when you're expecting sci fi voices-in-your-head (wait, that sounds familiar...) telepathy
- TeMPOraL 10y agoLong-distance telepathy if you do it over a phone. I think IMs on smartphones are closest we are to sci-fi long-range telepathic connection from practical standpoint though.
- p1esk 10y agoYes, but the "real" telepathy is when you can picture, in your head, the exact tree I'm picturing in my head, without me doing anything to help you. Sounds pretty sci-fi, until you read about recent brain to brain communication experiments.
- shostack 10y agoI think one needs to only look as far as usage of gifs and emoji and Snapchat/Instagram to see how fast that will be adopted once the I/O devices improve.
- Terr_ 10y agoI don't think that's possible because the first person never really has a complete tree picture to begin with. Instead you have a while bunch of sub-impressions which your brain dynamically invents from old experiences as your attention wanders. Even if you transfer all the input-requirements, the other person's procedural generator will give a different set of outputs to satisfy them.
- p1esk 10y agoYou're right, but those experiments are still pretty impressive.
- GauntletWizard 10y agoReminds me of "The Realm of Rough Telepathy"[1]; a spoof of ICANN history by presenting the organization in the guise of an order of mages with secret rituals and cabbalistic rites, which fit surprisingly well with real proceedings and RFC reviews, etc. [1]http://grimoire.computer/ http://grimoire.computer/