Timeline for Why would telepaths have difficulty communicating with each other?
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| Jul 27, 2021 at 12:45 | vote | accept | Incognito | ||
| Mar 29, 2019 at 20:31 | comment | added | Megha | I like the idea that familiar people and experiences would make it easier to understand, though I think it would also happen that familiar styles of telepathy (known mental shortcuts or jargon) would develop, and like language would map onto areas, peoples, cultures. Like body language, bodies are pretty much the same world round but body language is deeply influenced by culture and custom... and minds are a lot more variable | |
| Mar 28, 2019 at 18:53 | comment | added | SRM | From the book “Beggars In Spain” by Nancy Kress, consider her description of “thought strings” and the problems of translating one person’s thoughts for someone else. She includes good examples in the book. | |
| Mar 28, 2019 at 15:57 | comment | added | tbrookside | I would go even farther than this (while still considering this the correct answer) and say that without a semiotic system a good portion of what we consider "thought" isn't even possible, so the thoughts wouldn't even be there to be telepathically passed. And once you develop a thought using language, you may as well use the language to communicate it. | |
| Mar 28, 2019 at 15:26 | history | edited | Cyrus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 28, 2019 at 15:17 | history | answered | Cyrus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |