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Q&A Silent Planet: Effects of Natural Psionic Evolution on Communication Tech?

"Imagine that. A planet teeming with life, entwined with one another with mere thought and nothing more. A silent harmony, a quiet world." Context Through some still unknown science, and on this ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Millennium‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Millennium‭

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Q&A Is it possible to lie telepathically?

In a world where people can feel each other's thoughts and emotions, is it possible to lie? Is it possible to think something different from what you really think? It doesn't make sense... When yo...

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Aric‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Aric‭

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Q&A What could cause an entire planet of humans to become aphasic?

I'm working on a story in which there is some sort of planetary erosion of language. Humans lose the ability to communicate verbally (orally and written). They can remember having language, can eve...

8 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Sarah Fitzsimmons‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Sarah Fitzsimmons‭

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Q&A Biological touch based high bandwidth communication

My alien race is supposed to have the ability to communicate a lot of information extremely fast, more akin to uploading something to your partner's mind than telling him. This should happen via si...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by TheDyingOfLight‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by TheDyingOfLight‭

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Q&A How do creatures with a hive mind communicate?

Suppose we have a civilisation which is made up of many creatures sharing a single hive mind. Each creature can see, hear and remember what each other member of the species (or possibly hive) has s...

8 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Liath‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Liath‭

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Q&A Would ultrasonic nasal communication work? (*De facto* telepathy.)

Lots of animals, e.g. dogs, can hear sounds beyond the frequencies that humans can hear. Would it be realistic to have a basically humanoid species which had two sets of vocal cords - one similar ...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by ohwilleke‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by ohwilleke‭

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Q&A Scientifically-plausible alien telepathy

A caveat I will begin this question with is this: this system MUST be entirely organic. In fact it must be EVOLVED. Therefore Ghost in the Shell or Metal Gear-style nanocomms or cranial implants ar...

9 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Z.Schroeder‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Z.Schroeder‭

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Q&A Is magnetic telepathy possible?

So I have a story about humans far off in the future on a different planet that have evolved to be more in tune with electromagnetism and magnetism. Their technology mostly works because of magneti...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by X_Wera‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by X_Wera‭

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Q&A What would an organ linking the nervous systems of two people look like?

Image people with roughly the same brain and nervous system layout as a human as a first approximation using the same kinds of cells and chemicals, etc. But, these people have organs that can dire...

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by ohwilleke‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by ohwilleke‭

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Q&A Can telepathy and telekinesis exist in biological creatures?

I would like to create a sentient creature with telepathy and/or telekinesis. Can either (or both) of these concepts exist biologically? If yes, what would the biological mechanism be? Would ...

15 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by James‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by James‭

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Q&A How would organic EM transmitters/recievers be different than our mechanical ones

Modern mechanical EM transmitters, like radio towers and radar guns, rely on finely tuned mechanical structures. If these structures do not have the right shapes, the device fails to function. Or...

1 answer  ·  posted 9y ago by Cort Ammon - Reinstate Monica‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Cort Ammon - Reinstate Monica‭

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Q&A What characteristics would a telepathic, energy-absorbing race of aliens have?

A race of aliens exists on a distant planet whose biological functioning depends on absorbing a specific type of energy. They have what is essentially an antenna through which they passively absorb...

1 answer  ·  posted 8y ago by Josh‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Josh‭