A lot of information can be conveyed with body language, context and emotion, to the point where it's difficult to distinguish from telepathy. Most especially with folks who've spent a great deal of time together.<p>I'm maybe not the only one who's experienced bits of 'beaming' with a long time friend or partner?<p>Perhaps "I have a pretty good idea of what X is thinking" is softer language than "I'm reading X's mind", but I can see how the experience of telepathy is not greatly distant from something that's normal for many people.
Let's not forget that speaking/talking is telepathy, right people? Speech crosses all the boxes:<p><pre><code> -- It's invisible, travels via 'waves'
-- The 'waves' I use to speak can cause your brain to show you images
-- It can convey emotions, thoughts, images.
-- It can be used to persuade others, change the way they think about a subject.
-- **tree**. Did it work? Did you see a tree?
Of course recognising that speech really does check all the boxes is kind of a let down when you're expecting sci fi voices-in-your-head (wait, that sounds familiar...) telepathy</code></pre>
As a note, I've seen the encounter twice now here in Manhattan - it's absolutely fantastic and I can't rave about it enough. They used a lot of cool sound trickery, mostly with a Sennheiser Neumann KU 100 and some well placed parabolics. Unfortunately it's no longer on broadway. <a href="http://theencounterbroadway.com/index.php#home-content" rel="nofollow">http://theencounterbroadway.com/index.php#home-content</a>
I can't believe the claim, since telepathy has never been demonstrated- however! I think I have to admit that there isn't any law of physics that says telepathy is impossible, theoretically. It would certainly be possible over short distances if humans had specialized organs for transmitting and receiving electrical signals, like an electric eel does. Since we don't have that organ, the signals a human brain can produce are very weak, which is why they put electrodes right on your scalp and not a few inches away. If telepathy could occur, it would have to be in a very electrically quiet place like the Amazon. It could be that telepathy is real but just never tested in an electrically quiet enough environment. The modern world is shockingly noisy- cell phones, radio towers, the power grid, and wifi hubs all produce constant electrical noise. Even in the Amazon I'd say the probability that this is real is very very low, but hey, who knows.
I would love for the species to develop Telepathy. Since I was a child I've dreamed of the day (sci-fi drove me there), and I feel that we inch closer and closer as the Internet grows by day ..
Our thoughts, as we experience them, are usually in a form of an inner monologue, and very much like talking it's always in some particular language. Based on that I'd suspect, if telepathy was possible, that it would still be very closely bound to the language that you use to verbalize your thoughts.