On ‘Telepathy’

Curiously, fantasy & sci-fi media has deigned telepathy as a sort of mind to mind verbal conversation. Noticeably, sci-fi influences the ‘technosphere’, effectively defining the world we live in. So to prevent a dystopian future we have to consider realities that can positively augment our lives; one that works to better immerse us in the singular and encompassing ecosystem that wraps our world, nature. Here, I consider telepathy as an unconscious skill we are all ‘mostly’ actively employing. This is great, because it means we can design for better Telepathy.

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Holding a lover’s hand as they give birth dramatically reduces the pain they are experiencing, a result of interpersonal synchronisation & biobehavioural synchrony. Eye contact increases the rates of brain activity synchronisation between two people, a result of the ‘hyperbrain’ network. These systems of life entanglement are integral to the development of empathy (theory of mind) and play a significant role in navigating our daily environments.

Our brain possess the ability to rapidly & subconsciously recognise micro-actions and integrate them into our action rationale; it is constantly aggregating incredibly subtle, sub-threshold inputs— such as a fleeting micro-expression on someone's face, a fractional change in their vocal pitch, a specific scent and the spatial lighting of a room. Its why we have colloquialisms for feelings that are transmuted, the idea that someone’s stress/anger/happiness/anxiety is communicated even if not explicitly. The fidelity of this transmutation seems reliant on the individuals relationship with the ‘observed’; to speak of a mutually loving¹ relationship between people: even an audio only conversation might communicate more than it would between people who are strangers. Although this might warrant a “duh”, it isn’t just because of the conscious knowing of the person’s ticks and behaviours, but rather the self-reformatting trait of relating to another; the ability to ‘put yourself in their shoes’. Assuming the other party also engages in utilising this trait, what you find is the conversation transcends the banality of spoken language, it enters a realm where spoken language is simply an augmenting vehicle for a conversation between minds. With an audio only conversation between people in a mutually loving relationship, you unlock a lower form of telepathy², this unspoken expressing of understanding.

So if we are able to unlock a “lower form of telepathy” through an audio only conversation, providing some prerequisites are met:

What does ‘full telepathy’ look like?

How is it ‘activated’?

How might we employ the tenets of telepathy for better communication?

Why should we embed telepathy as a culture?

What do we unlock as a result of telepathy as our primary mode of communication?

¹ Love represented by a deep ‘knowing’ of another, not necessarily of an emotional nature. However even if professional, a deep ‘knowing’ is somewhat intrinsically emotional.

² In actuality, telepathy was never just the communication of spoken language through minds. It is the all encompassing mind to mind translation of all the ‘feelings’ that intertwine to create a thought. Telepathy is the mind to mind expressing of ‘understanding’ and everything required to communicate that.