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[21stcenturyguy]

Hey. This isn't one of those 'let's all get to know each other and be best friends' posts. I wanna know what you guys know about telepathy.

[Aoi holds a picture up to the camera. 'Picture' is probably a generous description.]



First, anyone know what this picture is?

Snake, before you even start, I fuckin' KNOW you can't see it, so I'm not asking you.

Don't cheat, just tell me what you think it's supposed to be.

If you're not into pictures, tell me about Archetypes from your world. There was a psychologist on Earth who noticed the same ideas pop up in various cultures that had no contact with one another. I want to see if that collective unconscious spans worlds too. So, I dunno, talk to each other about the legends and fairy tales and holidays and shit from your worlds and lemme know what common threads you find

The Follow-Up Video

[A couple of days later, when it seems like the majority of the people who are gonna weigh in have done so, Aoi makes a follow-up post.]

Alright, I know you all think I was tryin' to psychoanalyze you with the picture I showed you the other day, but trust me, you guys aren't that interesting. There's a right answer to the picture. I'll show you.

[He holds up the original picture and the solution to the screen.]

Some crackpot psychologist did an experiment to test the transference of knowledge through unseen means. He showed a picture like this to a population of people, and the distribution of answers was pretty random, same as you guys'. Then he broadcast the answer to that population. When he went to a to a remote location that had no contact with anyone from Population A. When he showed the same picture, there was a statistically significant increase in the percentage of people who knew the answer.

Even though nobody had consciously shared the information, because more people knew it, the answer was somehow transmitted. So that's the theory of Morphic Resonance.

Comments

[zephrah]

Some of the black splotches look a little like bats? [ Still squinting. ] Am I--am I supposed to be looking at the black parts or the white parts?

[21stcenturyguy]

I can't give you hints. That'll throw off the results.

The first impression of what it is is the important part. You don't gotta keep trying to figure it out. You're not being' graded or anything.

[zephrah]

I mean, my first impression was a bunch of black splotches on white splotches, and then that some of them look like bats.

[21stcenturyguy]

[Aoi links her to the solution video, which he now has listed under the original video.]

[zephrah]

[ Even more squinting. ]

That doesn't look anything like what it's supposed to and there is no way anyone could see that.

[21stcenturyguy]

The point is for the image to be obscured enough that you can't just look at it and tell what it is. That's how the test works.

[zephrah]

What is it supposed to be testing for?

[21stcenturyguy]

Telepathy, or a version of it. The effect has to be measured over time and different populations, but basically it's a test to see if information is getting passed along through an unseen field.

[zephrah]

Oh.

...Has it ever worked?

[21stcenturyguy]

Yeah, it has.

[Aoi's not going to be forthcoming with deets, but he can say that much, at least.]

[zephrah]

Huh.

[ This seems like more of a Percy thing, but it's interesting nonetheless. ]