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Wonder why we can do this,' he called out with his mind. The mental effort of speaking to her was already straining__e felt a headache forming like a bulge in his brain. 'Maybe we were lovers,' Teresa said. Thomas tripped and crashed to the ground. Smiling sheepishly at Minho, who__ turned to look without slowing, Thomas got back up and caught up to him. 'What?' he finally asked. He sensed a laugh from her, a watery image full of color.

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They must talk to each other directly, Ender, mind to mind. What one thinks, another can also think; what one remembers, another can also re-member. Why would they ever develop language? Why would they ever learn to read and write? How would they know what reading and writing were if they saw them? Or signals? Or numbers? Or anything that we use to communicate? This isn__ just a matter of translating from one language to another. They don__ have a language at all. We used every means we could think of to communicate with them, but they don__ even have the machinery to know we__e signaling. And maybe they__e been trying to think to us, and they can__ understand why we don__ respond.

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The reason creatures wanted to use language instead of mental telepathy was that they found out they could get so much more done with language. Language made them so much more active. Mental telepathy, with everybody constantly telling everybody everything, produced a sort of generalized indifference to all information. But language, with its slow, narrow meanings, made it possible to think about one thing at a time -- to start thinking in terms of projects.

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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

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In science fiction, telepaths often communicate across language barriers, since thoughts are considered to be universal. However, this might not be true. Emotions and feelings may well be nonverbal and universal, so that one could telepathically send them to anyone, but rational thinking is so closely tied to language that it is very unlikely that complex thoughts could be sent across language barriers. Words will still be sent telepathically in their original language.

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Michio Kaku

The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind