I like how the person who clearly doesn’t have telepathy, asking to join, actually has a smile on their face. All the telepaths look dead and miserable inside.
Thanks. With telepathy, I do sometimes wonder if the telepaths see no point in making external facial expressions for the benefit of their fellow telepaths. It may be that on the inside, in their own telepathic group chat, they are joking and singing and laughing and having fun.
I recall a scene in Gunnerkrigg Court along these lines (don’t ask me to find it) and I also wonder if it’s the case in Pluribus.
Maybe it’s similar to when you text someone, “ROFLMAO” but you aren’t actually smiling in real life.
With telepathy, I do sometimes wonder if the telepaths see no point in making external facial expressions for the benefit of their fellow telepaths.
People born blind still make facial expressions. It’s hard wired into us to make the expressions, even for a tiny moment, and suppressing those facial expressions is learned.
That’s probably why I still laugh, cry, wince, widen my eyes in surprise, etc., when watching TV by myself.
So I don’t think telepathy would change that behavior.
Yeah this. They’re just miserable. There was an Outer Limits episode in the 90s or 00s where a guy in an apartment building got telepathy and it drive him insane.
I like how the person who clearly doesn’t have telepathy, asking to join, actually has a smile on their face. All the telepaths look dead and miserable inside.
Thanks. With telepathy, I do sometimes wonder if the telepaths see no point in making external facial expressions for the benefit of their fellow telepaths. It may be that on the inside, in their own telepathic group chat, they are joking and singing and laughing and having fun.
I recall a scene in Gunnerkrigg Court along these lines (don’t ask me to find it) and I also wonder if it’s the case in Pluribus.
Maybe it’s similar to when you text someone, “ROFLMAO” but you aren’t actually smiling in real life.
People born blind still make facial expressions. It’s hard wired into us to make the expressions, even for a tiny moment, and suppressing those facial expressions is learned.
That’s probably why I still laugh, cry, wince, widen my eyes in surprise, etc., when watching TV by myself.
So I don’t think telepathy would change that behavior.
Yeah this. They’re just miserable. There was an Outer Limits episode in the 90s or 00s where a guy in an apartment building got telepathy and it drive him insane.
They have to focus hard, is why.