Former Google exec building a high-tech hat that will make telepathy possible

"Right now our output is basically moving our jaws and our tongues or typing [with] our fingers. We're ... limited to this very low output rate from our brains, and what if we could up that through telepathy?" asks Jepsen. "Instant transfer of thoughts would also speed up the innovation process."

So, instant, telepathic transfer of an idea is faster than simply conveying an idea with words. However, in "receiving" a thought, it still has to go through some linguistic framework, which I imagine includes the same kind of language processing that happens when you hear speech. The same with conveying the thought- is it conveyed with words, and if so, how other than through language? I don't mean a computer reading your thoughts and typing them, I mean actual telepathy, which is the "transference of information from one person to another without the use of any known sensory channels of physical interaction"

Can you really learn anything directly this way, without language processing? Am I totally missing her point? I'm not arguing there aren't other good uses for this.

edit: ok, she is talking about OUTPUT, not necessarily INPUT (which is the second necessary component of "telepathy"). I want to hear more of the "input" side, or else the shit's kind of bunk, kind of like Ray Kurzweil (imho)

TL;DR

>In just eight years it will be, says Openwater founder Mary Lou Jepsen, thanks to technology her company is working on.

This link is quickly buried by HN's algorithm, but it is really interesting, more so is a link to the new startup of Mary Lou Jepsen: https://www.opnwatr.io/

Next up - Twitch live streams of teens unfiltered thoughts.

One step closer to nerve gear.

[adjusts tin foil hat]