Mind Reading

[Cryss Winters]

Anyone else want it? I hear a lot of people saying it'd be invasion of privacy, which I guess I agree with. but who cares? lol I wouldn't abuse it.. at the moment. but I'm sure such a curse would eventually corrupt me.

 

[Enne]

Hmm... I would abuse it ^_^ V Yeah! But other than that I want more offensive abilities.

 

[Cryss Winters]

Hmm... I would abuse it ^_^ V Yeah! But other than that I want more offensive abilities.

I would simply want it for understanding. I honestly wouldn't abuse it, at my present mindset.

 

[Felan]

I often think about being able to look at or touch a person and borrow their memories to sift through. I would use the power with impunity.

I think intention matters far more than use. The ability to read minds unobtrusively would be of astounding scientific benefit if applied toward that.

Are thoughts independent of language I wonder?

 

[Inappropriate Behavior]

It would be alright if I could select the targets of whose mind's gets read. I wouldn't want to be inundated with the banal thoughts I suspect most people of having.

 

[Toad]

Now is it just conscious thoughts or subconscious also? There are like a million subconscious thoughts running through your head every second (don't quote me on this). Could you really handle that?

 

[Cryss Winters]

Now is it just conscious thoughts or subconscious also? There are like a million subconscious thoughts running through your head every second (don't quote me on this). Could you really handle that?

If not, I would die. lol

 

[Artifice Orisit]

Mind reading + anonymous telepathy = mind control

Would I abuse these abilities? Hell yes!

 

[loveofreason]

I need to be able to mind read! Not just want...

Present means of communication are way inadequate...

It wouldn't be a matter of abusing it - surface skimming thoughts could be just as deceptive as language... that kind of reading offers little advantage that I can see - I don't want just random mind-noise from anyone.....

To the contrary, I need the capacity to mind-meld selectively, voluntarily... to the exclusion of external stimuli, so that another's mind can become - temporarily - the entire universe and complete understanding/empathy can be achieved.

This is not a forever-type invasion but something needed when confusion/misunderstanding/isolation must be overcome, and of course it is mutual - one must permit one's own mind to be openly 'read'.*

* I think in this case that 'experienced' would be the better term... I don't know what % of brain activity is represented by conscious language processing, but I'm guessing compared to the totality it is very little...

so what we may experience is likely to be more composed of all those feeling shades; of chemical states, of pre-verbal visualisations... mostly I imagine the experience would be visual/emotional...

even more than that it could introduce us to the different ways some people deal with data. The different processes...

being co-submerged with a mind concerned with dominant Se would be so totally different to meeting another Ti, for instance.

Maybe we don't really know what it means to be all 'senses alive', or awash with constant compassion, or alert to every ripple of the body's chemical (emotional) tide, or swimming in a world of invisible data...

maybe others have no idea what it is like to have the conceptual world arrayed around them like solid geography....

...just imagine the possibilities...

 

[Decaf]

Mind reading would be fantastic! Imagine if we could directly apply out introverted thinking to the outside world!! We would suddenly transform from outcasts into leaders of the free world!