{"id":16243,"date":"2018-08-08T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T16:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=16243"},"modified":"2018-08-07T11:02:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T18:02:17","slug":"communication-error-exploring-telepathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2018\/08\/08\/communication-error-exploring-telepathy\/","title":{"rendered":"Communication Error<\/em>: Exploring telepathy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever imagined that you could communicate with other people using only your mind? And that, by doing so, you could have all the things you\u2019ve ever desired? Well, if you had telepathy, chances are it wouldn\u2019t help you communicate better; you would just hear inner monologues about nonsense.<\/p>\n

The majority of sci-fi films and television have led us to believe that having the ability to tap into someone\u2019s thoughts would give us the ultimate edge in our interactions and communications\u2014and, ultimately, life.<\/p>\n

But the reality is this: if you were to select one random person on the bus, for example, your amazing ability would pick up worries about what others might have said about them, or perhaps concerns about whether they could have said something differently in a conversation they had earlier; ruminations on what was said and what could have been said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Communication Error<\/em> is a column in every issue of Nexus<\/em> looking at communication issues.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Communication is like a funnel: a lot wants to come out but only a small amount does. What happens is the little amount that does come out leaves us regretting what didn\u2019t come out.<\/p>\n

So, if you could read others\u2019 minds, chances are what you find would look quite similar to your own thoughts. The question is: what\u2019s on your mind? Why are you concerned with what has been said and what could have been said?<\/p>\n

Mind reading isn\u2019t required for being heard; in fact, it actually presupposes people are listening to you in the first place, and chances are they aren\u2019t. If others are more concerned with worries about their past communication, then why does reading their minds matter? If time travel took you back to the moment when you wanted to say something differently, would that solve everything?<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s consider that for a second. If we always care more about what we\u2019ve said, as opposed to what we\u2019re saying, then we are forever in a loop\u2014ad infinitum. The past conversations matter more than the present ones. Well, how does that make any sense? Yet, most of us have this logic built into us\u2014so much so, in fact, that most of our communications rely on the past in order to make sense of the present.<\/p>\n

If telepathy were possible, would it actually help us? If communication is a mixed bag\u2014a shot in the dark, if you will\u2014then reading others\u2019 minds isn\u2019t a straight path.<\/p>\n

We often forget that communication isn\u2019t neutral; that it does not jump from brain to brain naturally; that language has its conventions, like everything else.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For most of us, communicating with anyone other than our best friends or mothers can be difficult at times. But, perhaps, the ability to communicate directly into someone\u2019s mind would bypass all of communication\u2019s shortcomings. Or would it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you ever imagined that you could communicate with other people using only your mind? And that, by doing so, you could have all the things you\u2019ve ever desired? Well, if you had telepathy, chances are it wouldn\u2019t help you communicate better; you would just hear inner monologues about nonsense. The majority of sci-fi films […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-august-8-2018"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16244,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16243\/revisions\/16244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}