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Re:Will We Know Alien Life When We See It? by darkerside on Saturday January 07, 2023 @06:43PM (#34294315)
Communication through sound is just vibrating your inner organs at a pattern of frequencies, causing the air to vibrate at the same frequency, and resulting in someone else's ear drums vibrating at the same frequency. This causes thoughts to spontaneously appear in your partner's head. How is this different from telepathy?
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Re:Will We Know Alien Life When We See It? by bobkazamakis on Saturday January 07, 2023 @07:48PM (#34294792)
Everything? You're describing two different channels, not two different intentions.
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Re:Will We Know Alien Life When We See It? by kbelder on Sunday January 08, 2023 @03:54PM (#34302990)
The takeaway is not how speaking is like telepathy, but that telepathy wouldn't be that different than speaking. It would presumably have some different characteristics, like speed-of-light propagation, but it would still be just a sense organ.

"Dammit, Joe's thinking at me again. I'm going to ignore him while I watch TV."

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