Posted: Apr 06, 2017 3:12 am
Ayhan Coskun wrote:you can just sense what a person is thinking, in which case your just reading body language and guessing, ...
A human version of the Clever Hans effect. Around 1900 in Berlin, there was a horse that got called Clever Hans because he seemed very knowledgable. But that horse was knowledgable only when he could see his questioners, and a psychologist concluded that he was reading the body language of his questioners. That psychologist then demonstrated that he also could read such body language.
Some poker players try to avoid giving away hints about their cards by giving themselves a "poker face", an expressionless face. Thus trying to keep other players from being like Clever Hans to them.
I remember someone who claimed to have worked for the Psychic Friends network for a while. I asked him to find out the name of my computer's hard disk by reading my mind. He claimed to have gotten information on me by doing that, but it was all information that he could find online.
There is an interesting conundrum that telepathy presents: loss of mental privacy. It would be hard to hide one's thoughts and feelings from someone who can read minds.