Telepathy

Telepathy, from the Greek τηλε, tele, "distant", and πάθεια, patheia, "feeling", is the claimed innate ability of humans and other creatures to communicate information from one mind to another, without the use of extra tools such as speech or body language. Considered a form of extra-sensory perception or anomalous cognition, telepathy is often connected to various paranormal phenomena such as precognition, clairvoyance and empathy. Because anecdotal claims of "strange currencies" and similar related explanations have deep resonance in history, fiction, and belief, telepathy carries perhaps greater interest than any of the other numerous subjects which referred to as "paranormal."

Telepathy and technology

Some, for example the science-fiction writer Spider Robinson in the book Deathkiller, have envisioned neurological research leading to technologically-assisted telepathy, also called techlepathy. As of 2004, scientists have demonstrated that brain imaging can be successfully used to recognise distinct thought patterns, and tell, for example, whether experimental monkeys thought about juice or water, and whether a human participant thought about a rotating cube or moving his paralised arm. Both implanted electrodes recording neurons' activity and outside electrodes recording electromagnetic activity of the brain can be used.

Related Topics:
Spider Robinson - Techlepathy - Brain imaging - Electrode - Neuron

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The technologically-assisted telepathy achieved so far is thus a very real phenomenon and is significantly more accurate in tests than "natural" telepathy.

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There are several schools of thought on how far technologically-assisted telepathy (Type II Telepathy, as opposed to Type I, where technology plays no part) has gotten with modern technology. There are some theories that the technology was mastered as back as 1986, but its essential control elements were not known or perfected until the early 1990s. It is speculated that Type II is very selective in its effect, the technology being based upon neural engram interception and retransmission.

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