I've always thought that if telepathy was even remotely possible, it would just be communication via pheromones or through the use of technology to transmit brainwaves over the air.
You wouldn't need to use your mouth. You see things where you can control a device "with your mind?" That, but used to talk to other people also wearing a goofy helmet.
Yeah, I understand Netflix didn't treat the creative team the best, with the usual penny-pinching season-splitting shenanigans, but they didn't pull the rug out from under them with the total number of episodes, so it tells a really good self-contained story and has a satisfying ending.
If you break down psychic communication into logistical components, you'd need some sort of organ for transmitting brainwaves, and some sort of organ for receiving brain waves, and you'd need parts of the brain for interpreting thoughts received, and likely a different area for converting thoughts into transmissible brain waves.
It's not that dissimilar to what you're describing with pheremones, but I'll do you one better because we already have all that on the electromagnetic spectrum. Sound waves are invisible energy put into the air by specialized organs that are encoded and decoded by different parts of the brain. To any species lacking auditory sensory organs, talking and hearing would be functionally identical to telepathy. We transmit complex thoughts through the air directly from one brain to another, or via telecommunications technology. To another species using telepathy, we would appear to them to be deaf and mute.
don't mushrooms(fungus in general) have some kind of communication system that basically functions like a hive mind?
I think when you're thinking in terms of multiple cellular organisms sharing a singular information pathway there are many examples that fit the criteria that aren't necessarily the way humans would communicate with each other.
I think mushrooms are more of a singular organism with a vast nervous system spreading underground and occasionally popping up above to reproduce. Which kinda sorta fits, but still
Mob/swarm behaviors are way different from hives. Not only are those temporary and contextual, but they only cover a small portion of an animal's life. Flocks of birds and schools of fish are temporary formations that animals can be part of, but they also nest as a separate formation away from the flock/school/swarm etc etc.
A hive lives and breathes together in every moment of their lives. Even when an individual is away from the hive, everything they do is still for the hive. Packs have more in common with hives than flocks or schools or swarms.
And one such pack animal just so happens to rule Earth and be its most advanced species. Maybe we'd have more in common with the hive mind than we think - and it's up to one teen's dance troupe to save the world and unite our species!
A hive lives and breathes together in every moment of their lives. Even when an individual is away from the hive, everything they do is still for the hive
In the 2009 Oscar-snubbed masterpiece Monsters vs Aliens, the alien mothership is defeated by a half-man, half-cockroach scientist doing DDR.
https://youtu.be/s7HirhI6Wjc
supernova, this is red dwarf. we actually have one! code nimoy! i repeat, CODE NIMOY!!
Oh. Em. Gee. That's a movie brimming full of jokes that didn't stand the test of time.
It's definitely a product of its time.
I love that this is a real thing.
Futurama did it, in the 3rd act of "Reincarnation"
I've always thought that if telepathy was even remotely possible, it would just be communication via pheromones or through the use of technology to transmit brainwaves over the air.
Explain to me how it's not REALLY telepathy just because you used a gizmo to make up for your own psychic shortcomings? Prosthetics are a thing.
What if we encode brainwaves as vibrations of air molecules using some sort of vocal language?
Adeptus Mechanicus tech-priests having a chant over the noosphere in binharic
How would this technology differ from... the radio?
You wouldn't need to use your mouth. You see things where you can control a device "with your mind?" That, but used to talk to other people also wearing a goofy helmet.
Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts just cut out the middleman and had Dubstep Bees. Great show, btw.
This show is great, and there's only two seasons: storyline ends. So you're not on the hook for15 seasons of B/S.
Yeah, I understand Netflix didn't treat the creative team the best, with the usual penny-pinching season-splitting shenanigans, but they didn't pull the rug out from under them with the total number of episodes, so it tells a really good self-contained story and has a satisfying ending.
We already did that, it's called "Barbie" and it is art.
Why else did you think the Kens had that highly choreographed dance battle?
Psychic communication is nothing but pheromones with the medium of electromagnetic waves. Change my mind.jpeg
If you break down psychic communication into logistical components, you'd need some sort of organ for transmitting brainwaves, and some sort of organ for receiving brain waves, and you'd need parts of the brain for interpreting thoughts received, and likely a different area for converting thoughts into transmissible brain waves.
It's not that dissimilar to what you're describing with pheremones, but I'll do you one better because we already have all that on the electromagnetic spectrum. Sound waves are invisible energy put into the air by specialized organs that are encoded and decoded by different parts of the brain. To any species lacking auditory sensory organs, talking and hearing would be functionally identical to telepathy. We transmit complex thoughts through the air directly from one brain to another, or via telecommunications technology. To another species using telepathy, we would appear to them to be deaf and mute.
don't mushrooms(fungus in general) have some kind of communication system that basically functions like a hive mind?
I think when you're thinking in terms of multiple cellular organisms sharing a singular information pathway there are many examples that fit the criteria that aren't necessarily the way humans would communicate with each other.
I think mushrooms are more of a singular organism with a vast nervous system spreading underground and occasionally popping up above to reproduce. Which kinda sorta fits, but still
Finally a decent idea for a The Last Starfighter remake.
Pretty sure the best version is going to come out of Bollywood. I'll wait for the english dub.
I mean, locust hoards, stampedes, feeding frenzies, a flock of starlings, a school of fish.
Then examples of mob behaviors just in humans...
Hiveminds definitely exist in nature on a temporary basis, no one ever said it was psychic.
If the premise of a joke isn't true, it's not a good joke
Mob/swarm behaviors are way different from hives. Not only are those temporary and contextual, but they only cover a small portion of an animal's life. Flocks of birds and schools of fish are temporary formations that animals can be part of, but they also nest as a separate formation away from the flock/school/swarm etc etc.
A hive lives and breathes together in every moment of their lives. Even when an individual is away from the hive, everything they do is still for the hive. Packs have more in common with hives than flocks or schools or swarms.
And one such pack animal just so happens to rule Earth and be its most advanced species. Maybe we'd have more in common with the hive mind than we think - and it's up to one teen's dance troupe to save the world and unite our species!
Bumblebees like to play.