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Psychic ability
Telepathy is the purported vicarious transmission of information from one person's mind to another's without using any known human sensory channels or physical interaction. The term was coined in 1882 by the classical scholar Frederic W. H. Myers, a founder of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR), and has remained more popular than the earlier expression thought-transference. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: TelepathyA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Writing telepathy back into marketing theoryInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Practical Mind ReadingThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Quantum Pseudo-TelepathyCited 163 times
- Go sideways: Ganzfeld experimentA closely related topic
- Go sideways: ParapsychologyA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun The capability to communicate directly by psychic means; the sympathetic affection of one mind by the thoughts, feelings, or emotions of another at a distance, without communication through the ordinary channels of sensation.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Quantum Pseudo-Telepathy
Telepathy: Origins of Randomization in Experimental Design
ESP and ESB: Belief in personal success at mental telepathy.
Embodying Affect: Voice-hearing, Telepathy, Suggestion and Modelling the Non-conscious
Telepathy and Dreams: A Failure to Replicate
A psychological interpretation of the results of the Zenith radio experiments in telepathy.
Telepathy and Problems of Psychoanalysis
Telepathy in analysis
🆕 Influential since 2022
Writing telepathy back into marketing theory
Secure device-independent quantum bit-wise XOR summation based on a pseudo-telepathy game
Implementing 2-qubit pseudo-telepathy games on noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers
Rethinking communication and consciousness: Lessons from the telepathy tapes podcast
Gerda Walther and the Possibility of Telepathy as an Act of Personal Social Mind
📚 Books worth reading
Practical Mind ReadingWilliam Walker Atkinson · 1908
Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1)Charlaine Harris · 2001
The ChrysalidsJohn Wyndham · 1955
The RowanAnne McCaffrey · 1990
Mental Radio 1930Upton Sinclair · 1930
Lateral thinking: creativity step by stepEdward de Bono, Alexandre Gombau Armau · 1970
Touch Not the CatMary Stewart · 1976
DamiaAnne McCaffrey · 1992
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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