Safe from the sticks, that's exactly the sort of thing I mean.OK, so like this some kinda trap for closet woos where you say maybe PK or something like that and suddenly guys in jumpsuits jump through your windows and start beating you with sticks, right?
Umm, I can only say somewhat vaguely that while I consider any John Edward talking to the dead type a complete ass I do suspect that there may well be processes of the mind in relation to external elements that we may not fully understand or recognize. I'm sort of thinking of identifying the human brain being able to an extent to send and receive signals of some nature. I'm not thinking of let's chuck our cell phones telepathy but something that could be identified and possibly utilized in some manner.
Vague enough? OK, bring on the sticks.
I know a bloke like this. I hadn't realised it until I saw him on tv doing stuff faster than I could type it into a computer. He was absolutely lacking in any personal skills, was a fundamental christian, had an IQ of about 300 and looked like a nerd drawn by Mad magazine, but man, could he count!
There'd be little chance of getting mixed up with me!
That would be the one I'd most like to see.
I think that's somewhat unlikely, since there is no indication that any other species has evolved telepathy over the last few billion years. Telepathy (or any other form of ESP) would be an enormous advantage, even if it was at first present in only a very vague and hit-and-miss form. For example, a prey animal that occasionally got "feelings" about the location of predators (or a predator which sometimes "knew" where its prey was going to show up) would have an advantage over other animals that didn't. Once such an ability existed, animals in which it worked more reliably would have a distinct advantage over those in which it only worked "capriciously". There would be enormous selective pressure for the evolution of consistently reliable ESP. And lets face it, in the face of predators with ESP, any prey animal without it is going to be in trouble; the same goes for predators without ESP trying to catch telepathic prey. Can you imagine, for example, lions trying to ambush gazelles if the gazelles knew where the lions were?
On the other hand, it could be a complete mutation which survives. Chance lends a hand every now and then.
Sure, I have no doubts that it hasn't evolved so far, but you seem to be taking a short-term view of a long-term process. Evolution could take tens of thousands of years.
