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12 timestamped hits 2 source readings 7 extracted notes Aliases: telepathies

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Telepathy

Jiang uses the term for emotional attunement or embodied anticipation, not literal mind-reading.

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Key Notes

example within empathy model

evidence

The calculating horse is interpreted as room-reading empathy, not arithmetic: animal perception notices excitement, breath, and anticipation.

definition in this lecture

definition

Telepathy is redefined as emotional connection: not literal mind-reading, but knowing how another being feels even before conscious thought.

Speculative model stated on 2024-06-13.

model

He says psychohistory contains not only a promise of future prediction but also a promise that unrealized capacities of the human mind might be developed.

Contemporary example stated on 2024-06-13.

evidence

He uses Putin as an example of someone who, without special elite background, amassed enough power that Russia moves according to his command.

Timestamped Evidence

Imagination Came Before Civilization

2025-10-21, day precision · Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination

Transcript

"Okay? So they created a hidden emotional language together. Which, again, is amazing. And it's something that you will see when two people actually..."

The Future Is What You Make Happen

2024-06-13, day precision · Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future)

Transcript

"I think yes. And the answer is that you can make the argument that these edge cases that Eric refers to, these great men..."

The Future Is What You Make Happen

2024-06-13, day precision · Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future)

Transcript

"And is it possible that in the future we'll have more telepaths? And we can, over time, harness the power of these telepaths to..."

Relevant Lectures And Readings

Imagination Came Before Civilization

2025-10-21, day precision · glossary, claims

Reading

A source-grounded reading of Jiang's dawn-of-humanity lecture: Darwinism becomes a rival theology, cave art becomes a portal, speech begins as song, and modern society is accused of socializing people out of empathy.

The Future Is What You Make Happen

2024-06-13, day precision · claims

Reading

The final class turns collapse into an assignment: build a democratic psychohistory that can model war, correct history, answer great-man edge cases, and still preserve the human heart that wants to love, create, learn,...

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