Pigeons have an organ in the brain that allows them to sense the earth’s magnetic field.
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dev_null@lemmy.ml 4 weeks agoIf a species used radio communication, I don’t think I’d be against people calling it telepathy.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Fish too, but I believe its part of their outer skin not brain
dev_null@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
And if they could use it to exchange thoughts and ideas with others, I’d call that telepathy, but they don’t/
tobogganablaze@lemmus.org 4 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.
dev_null@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Why inconsistent? It’s a transfer of information without physical interaction and without using any human senses.
tobogganablaze@lemmus.org 4 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.
But that’s very much my point. Telepathy, as defined in the dictonary, does not exist and so nothing should satisfy the definition.
dev_null@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Britannica dictionary defines it with “without using the usual sensory channels” Cambridge dictionary with “without using words or other physical signals” Collins “without speech, writing, or any other normal signals” Merriam-Webster uses “extrasensory”, and they define “extrasensory” as “outside the ordinary senses”
All of it seems to match radio communication, and all require it to be between two persons or minds, so flowers and bees definitely don’t qualify.