Comment on What's the closest any animal species has come to evolving to have telepathy?

tobogganablaze@lemmus.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If a species used radio communication, I don’t think I’d be against people calling it telepathy.

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  • tobogganablaze@lemmus.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But it would be rather inconsistent. It’s just another part of the electromagnetic spectrum and we wouldn’t call visual communication telepathy.

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    • dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Why inconsistent? It’s a transfer of information without physical interaction and without using any human senses.

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      • tobogganablaze@lemmus.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Flowers can communicate with bees via ultraviolet light, which is not a human sense. So by your definition flowers can telepathically communicate with bees. For that would sounds like a very odd thing to say.

        Also the exchange of electromagnetic radiation IS a physical interaction.

        if you define it as not using any senses it doesn’t, but that would be a useless definition, because nothing could possibly satisfy it.

        But that’s very much my point. Telepathy, as defined in the dictonary, does not exist and so nothing should satisfy the definition.

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  • acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pigeons have an organ in the brain that allows them to sense the earth’s magnetic field.

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    • Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Fish too, but I believe its part of their outer skin not brain

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    • dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And if they could use it to exchange thoughts and ideas with others, I’d call that telepathy, but they don’t/

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