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

Ray Brown wrote:
(me, re the Kash)
> > 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.
No, at least IIRC according to Le Guin's "Left Hand of Darkness", which is
my only real "source" for info on telepathy, it's not possible to lie
telepathically-- presumably because the hearer also has access to the
speaker's mind and can probe around. (Though I can see that in a telepath vs
non-telepath situation, it would be possible.)
>
> > 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?
No, it's genetic (by fiat :-))

> ...is the ability to erect a
> firewall a secret guarded by those who know how?
Not really kept secret, but it's not inherent in the average ability; it has
to be taught. Ordinarily it would be impolite to try to penetrate someone's
firewall, assuming you could; but in criminal or psychiatric investigations
trained professionals are allowed to.

There are some musings on Kash telepathy on my website--
http://cinduworld.tripod.com/kashmisc.htm

Amusingly (good old Tripod) the ads across the top of that page are links to
a bunch of psychics.

Also a little bit on the "you know you're a Kash if..." page at
http://cinduworld.tripod.com/kashkulchur.htm

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