Comment on What's the closest any animal species has come to evolving to have telepathy?
tobogganablaze@lemmus.org 6 months ago
None really since proper telepathy, defined as “extrasensory communication” doesn’t exist. There has to be some physical way to send and recieve information and being able to pick up a physical signal is what a sense is. So if you communicate, it’s always sensory.
dev_null@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
If a species used radio communication, I don’t think I’d be against people calling it telepathy.
tobogganablaze@lemmus.org 6 months ago
But it would be rather inconsistent. It’s just another part of the electromagnetic spectrum and we wouldn’t call visual communication telepathy.
dev_null@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Why inconsistent? It’s a transfer of information without physical interaction and without using any human senses.
tobogganablaze@lemmus.org 6 months 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.
But that’s very much my point. Telepathy, as defined in the dictonary, does not exist and so nothing should satisfy the definition.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 6 months ago
Pigeons have an organ in the brain that allows them to sense the earth’s magnetic field.
Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Fish too, but I believe its part of their outer skin not brain
dev_null@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
And if they could use it to exchange thoughts and ideas with others, I’d call that telepathy, but they don’t/