Chapter 705 - 400: Dinner on Women’s Day 2
[What kind of ridiculous performance are you putting on, you love-starved bastard? Your countless explanations of me don’t even make up one one-thousandth of who I really am!]
[Is that so? It’s okay if you fool me, just don’t fool yourself. It doesn’t matter if I’m deceived by you; I can laugh it off. But I hope you wipe your eyes so the tears don’t fall. Everything you’ve said, I could believe it... Sorry, I can’t believe it because both you and I are transparent now!]
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This exchange of ideas that transcends language and completely breaks communication barriers leaves no room for deception or insincerity, and it happens so fast that within the blink of an eye, they understand each other’s thoughts. In two or three seconds, they experience a genuine, silent gaze because everything was said within those moments.
If they were to speak these words out loud, it would take them three days and nights without pause.
He Yimeng feels as if in those two or three seconds, the two of them underwent a month-long psychological counseling session. She has never understood Li Peifeng so comprehensively, and vice versa.
So, the two of them stare at each other, seemingly trying to see who can endure not blinking longer.
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Human communication relies primarily on language, whether spoken directly or written, with a transmission speed of only a few kilobytes per second at most. This method is prone to deviations and information loss.
For example, what I want to express is A, but what comes out is a. You interpret it based on your worldview and knowledge structure, maybe understanding it as b, or perhaps even as C.
However, telepathic communication completely avoids this issue. As soon as a thought arises, the other party can receive all the information you intend to convey.
Zero loss, zero delay, and it’s much more efficient than human verbal communication, allowing exchange at a magnitude much greater. In group discussions or one-on-one conversations, people must take turns speaking, but with telepathic communication, everyone can speak simultaneously while listening to others.
This ability is truly magical, even considered a great power. Not only does it make communication more convenient, but with prolonged use, it can also bring changes to one’s thinking.
For instance, the Three-Body aliens in "Three-Body Problem," this intelligent race communicates through telepathy or brainwaves. This ability makes each thought between them transparent, directly leading to an absence of the concepts of lies, deceit, or concealment. There is no privacy or secrets between individuals, resulting in extremely strong cooperation, forming a utopian-style collective autocratic society.
In contrast, humans, as mentioned in the Bible, since the creation of the Tower of Babel, communication and collaboration among humans deteriorated, causing the construction of the tower to fail. Barriers formed between individuals, directly leading to intra-racial consumption, conflicts, and suspicion.
If everyone possessed telepathy, knowing each other’s thoughts without speaking, sharing emotions, knowledge structures, and logical thinking, the entire human world would be completely different.
The definition of ’you and me’ would become blurrier, and every individual’s self would become the self of the whole group. Humans may gradually develop into a society resembling that of the Three-Body aliens.
Previously, communication through language placed a clear boundary between human thought and interaction, making us distinctly feel ’I am me, and you are you.’
But if everyone could communicate through brainwaves like the Three-Body people, knowing what the other person thinks with just one glance, the boundary between thought and communication wouldn’t be clear. Each thought shared clearly eliminates any room for lies and deceit. Everyone constantly experiences full empathy, putting oneself in another’s place... After an initial period of chaos, the human world could indeed achieve a shared destiny.
"Having superpowers is impressive?"
He Yimeng chuckled meaninglessly, spoke, and walked out of the building towards the garage. She took out the key and opened the sliding door. Li Peifeng placed the gift box down, hugged and kissed He Yimeng’s cheek, then left: "Bye~"
As his figure faded into the distance, He Yimeng withdrew her gaze from him, slowly opened the gift box, and looked at the gold jewelry inside, her emotions chaotic.
She suddenly understood why those four women could suppress their possessiveness and jealousy and grudgingly accept Li Peifeng enjoying the fortune of having them all.
Just the fact that he can ’understand like-mindedly’ is reason enough.
The high-loss communication method of human language has significant flaws. One of its side effects is that it turns every human’s fate into fear of loneliness and a yearning for love.
People are desperately longing to be understood, longing to be read.
Why do we seek partners to spend a lifetime with? Besides the reproductive instructions etched into our genes, it’s because our drifting, lonely souls constantly yearn to establish a deep connection with another soul.
For psychologists, this need for an inner link is the ultimate desire deep within a human’s heart, the underlying color of all psychological activity and needs.
People often say the backdrop of life is bleak because they feel they have never been truly understood in their life, nor will anyone understand them in the future.
Yet, if someone appears who can communicate and merge with you mentally, no matter how many flaws he has, you probably wouldn’t really be able to turn your back on him...
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