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Originally posted by TheKak
Heh, hardly telepathy. Telepathy would be someone sitting across a table telling me what I'm thinking with 100% acuracy 100% of the time, not a machine reading my brain waves to make a mechanical arm move (which isn't too difficult anyway, practice with a joystick while the machine watches, and it remembers how you moved the stick to move the arm, and then you just take away the stick. They did this with a monkey).
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It is still "mind reading". Reproducibly, using tools. We are still pretty primitive at it.
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Magnetic waves introduced into the brain to produce religious feelings also isn't telepathy or some super-human ability.
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By definition, anything a human can do isn't super-human.
So what if it isn't as fuzzy wuzzy as "My Mind is The Universe, I Can Feel Truth". It is still someone using their minds to control and influence the universe.
It is possible that within decades you'll be able to type as fast as you talk by machines that read your mind. Or communicate with others via the same methods. Maybe it won't work out, but maybe it will.
All of the abilities technology gives us are in some ways "super-human". They are things we can't do without the "magic" of technology. And unlike the other magics that various snake oil salesmen have attempted to sell humankind, technology works.