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Re: Non-linear / full-2d writing systems? (Telepathy dept.)

From:Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>
Date:Thursday, May 19, 2005, 18:05
On Wednesday, May 18, 2005, at 10:07 , Roger Mills wrote:

> Ray Brown wrote: > >> Even if humans had evolved the ability to communicate by thought alone, I >> suspect our communication would still be a shadow of our real thoughts. I >> don't think many people would be happy with the idea that their thoughts >> could all be read by anyone within 'reading distance' - we would most >> surely still process our thoughts before transmission :) > > I suppose one would have to learn how to create a "firewall".
:-)
>> >> But thinking how telepathic beings might write their 'thought >> transmission' >> might be a way of starting - also I vaguely hoped that some other >> people >> might get interested because such creatures do turn up in con-worlds, I >> believe, and it might be a little more convincing if they did not appear >> to think linearly in Anglo-American :) >> > You talkin' to me? :)
Most certainly not. I assumed anyone on this list would be rather more enlightened :)
> The Kash are telepathic, but I'm not, and I have no idea how it would > work. :-(
But we can use our imaginations and hypothesize.
> I assume they can communicate feelings and > images, but also something like messages/sentences that could just as > easily > be in spoken form but that, for whatever reasons, they want to keep > private.
Presumably they could also communicate false and/or deceptive images & feelings, just as humans can use speech to lie 7 deceive.
> In that case they'd probably be using the telepathic equivalent of linear > speech.
Possibly - tho I don't think it would necessarily be so.
> Firewall: not everyone knows how to erect one. So there are social > constraints on when, how, how much, one may touch another telepathically.
Ah, so it hasn't become 'hard-wired' into their brains? Each generation has to learn again from its predecessor. Or is the ability to erect a firewall a secret guarded by those who know how? Ray =============================================== http://home.freeuk.com/ray.brown ray.brown@freeuk.com =============================================== "A mind which thinks at its own expense will always interfere with language." J.G. Hamann, 1760

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