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Thoughts are nebulous and personal, language is ordered and shared.

Your brain doesn't produce thoughts one at a time in well-formed sequences with clear meanings. Many things are going on at the same time, all mixing together. Sensory input is processed all the time, triggering anything from memories and emotions to instincts, learned behaviors and thoughts. Before a conscious thought is fully formed, there might be dozens of half-formed ones, with all but one rejected. To add to this complexity, thoughts are shaped by the individual's life experience, memories, preferences, even the inclinations of their particular brain type. A visual thinker might have most thoughts as images or movies, that would be difficult to interpret for a pure verbal or mathematical thinker.

All of this means that until a person decides to cast their thoughts into language, it is very difficult to interpret what they are thinking, even when intentionally sending the message. EvenThe brain just can't help adding all kinds of context and related stuff, that's how neurons work. Even when the person is speaking out loud, thea purely telepathic listener has to filter out all kinds of mental noise. That works for simple thoughts, but for longer conversations or complex ideas, it is much betterless error-prone and less tiring to let the speaker do all the filtering, ordering and converting to spoken language.

Factors that make telepathic communication easier will be similar types of thinking, shared experiences and general familiarity with the person speaking. Family members might be able to communicate quite a lot telepathically, and the same might go for people that have worked together intensively for a long time. Strangers would find it very awkward.

Thoughts are nebulous and personal, language is ordered and shared.

Your brain doesn't produce thoughts one at a time in well-formed sequences with clear meanings. Many things are going on at the same time, all mixing together. Sensory input is processed all the time, triggering anything from memories and emotions to instincts, learned behaviors and thoughts. Before a conscious thought is fully formed, there might be dozens of half-formed ones, with all but one rejected. To add to this complexity, thoughts are shaped by the individual's life experience, memories, preferences, even the inclinations of their particular brain type. A visual thinker might have most thoughts as images or movies, that would be difficult to interpret for a pure verbal or mathematical thinker.

All of this means that until a person decides to cast their thoughts into language, it is very difficult to interpret what they are thinking. Even when the person is speaking, the telepathic listener has to filter out all kinds of mental noise. That works for simple thoughts, but for longer conversations or complex ideas, it is much better and less tiring to let the speaker do all the filtering, ordering and converting to spoken language.

Factors that make telepathic communication easier will be similar types of thinking, shared experiences and general familiarity with the person speaking. Family members might be able to communicate quite a lot telepathically, and the same might go for people that have worked together intensively for a long time. Strangers would find it very awkward.

Thoughts are nebulous and personal, language is ordered and shared.

Your brain doesn't produce thoughts one at a time in well-formed sequences with clear meanings. Many things are going on at the same time, all mixing together. Sensory input is processed all the time, triggering anything from memories and emotions to instincts, learned behaviors and thoughts. Before a conscious thought is fully formed, there might be dozens of half-formed ones, with all but one rejected. To add to this complexity, thoughts are shaped by the individual's life experience, memories, preferences, even the inclinations of their particular brain type. A visual thinker might have most thoughts as images or movies, that would be difficult to interpret for a pure verbal or mathematical thinker.

All of this means that until a person decides to cast their thoughts into language, it is difficult to interpret what they are thinking, even when intentionally sending the message. The brain just can't help adding all kinds of context and related stuff, that's how neurons work. Even when the person is speaking out loud, a purely telepathic listener has to filter out all kinds of mental noise. That works for simple thoughts, but for longer conversations or complex ideas, it is much less error-prone and less tiring to let the speaker do all the filtering, ordering and converting to spoken language.

Factors that make telepathic communication easier will be similar types of thinking, shared experiences and general familiarity with the person speaking. Family members might be able to communicate quite a lot telepathically, and the same might go for people that have worked together intensively for a long time. Strangers would find it very awkward.

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Thoughts are nebulous and personal, language is ordered and shared.

Your brain doesn't produce thoughts one at a time in well-formed sequences with clear meanings. Many things are going on at the same time, all mixing together. Sensory input is processed all the time, triggering anything from memories and emotions to instincts, learned behaviors and thoughts. Before a conscious thought is fully formed, there might be dozens of half-formed ones, with all but one rejected. To add to this complexity, thoughts are shaped by the individual's life experience, memories, preferences, even the inclinations of their particular brain type. A visual thinker might have most thoughts as images or movies, that would be difficult to interpret for a pure verbal or mathematical thinker.

All of this means that until a person decides to cast their thoughts into language, it is very difficult to interpret what they are thinking. Even when the person is speaking, the telepathic listener has to filter out all kinds of mental noise. That works for simple thoughts, but for longer conversations or complex ideas, it is much better and less tiring to let the speaker do all the filtering, ordering and converting to spoken language.

Factors that make telepathic communication easier will be similar types of thinking, shared experiences and general familiarity with the person speaking. Family members might be able to communicate quite a lot telepathically, and the same might go for people that have worked together intensively for a long time. Strangers would find it very awkward.