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The writer ruined it for me at the end of the article by casually arguing for the existence of telepathy with a couple of vague anecdotes.
by bergoid 10y ago
The writer ruined it for me at the end of the article by casually arguing for the existence of telepathy with a couple of vague anecdotes.
- awfgylbcxhrey 10y agoThe article it links to higher up (the part about the tribe knowing what the hunters killed from 50 miles away) is a fascinating read about telepathy that vacillates between vaguely scientific analysis and outright fantasy. I enjoyed it from a "well, that's a fun perspective to view the world from" standpoint.
- pavel_lishin 10y agoThe specific Kalahari example in the linked article makes a claim without presenting any evidence; I was bummed, because I was really curious about their methodology. (Turns out there isn't any; it's just a 'synthesized' personal account of one author.) Elephant "ESP" can be explained by infra-sound, however: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp/elephant/cyclotis/language/infrasound.html http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp/elephant/cyclotis/language/...
- NoGravitas 10y agoIt didn't ruin it for me, but it did throw me for a loop. I'm assuming that the elephants are communicating over long distances with infrasonics, and that over very long ranges, they may be relaying them for others.