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

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
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