I guess a better analogy would be talking. You can think about talking or you can talk, and I'm not sure anyone could really explain what the difference is, but

I guess a better analogy would be talking. You can think about talking or you can talk, and I'm not sure anyone could really explain what the difference is, but it is relatively unusual to speak by accident while you're conscious. I can imagine training myself to add a new mode of "talking" that actually transmitted a thought. Slip-ups would definitely still happen, but I think they would be more expected and less of a big deal with such a fluid communication system. And maybe you could build in a delay that reads your thought back to you before it sends.