Was the development of language akin to acquiring telepathy?

Question

Not my observation... but an interesting thought.

Answer 1

I sure do hope so. I only wish I had more contact with those who practiced telepathy. I sometimes feel I'm sitting here sending out signals through my Mental Radio and there is no one "out there" to help reproduce my sketches. Instead I have to suffer through communication. Darn. I think it would be much easier to use telepathy as a form of communication, for my thoughts are much more interesting than what I can write or say. Am I coming through?

Answer 2

I'm not sure if anyone has an answer to that as telepathy is poorly understood and only studied by people in the fields of pseudoscience under the prestigious title of "nut job". If the frontal lobes are markedly larger in those claiming to be telepathic, then either it is similar to language acquisition or extra brain matter is needed to be a good liar.

Answer 3

Au contraire, IMHO. Language is essentially a standardization of symbols, which therefore requires LESS connection between two people to get a message across. Language allows you and me, who (presumably) have never met, to communicate across (quite likely) huge distances and fairly large time-spans. (I answered quickly but you have to wait 24 hours to tell me my answer was best.)

Telepathy requires (I admit I'm guessing here) a huge amount of connection between the individuals involved.

Answer 4

All comes as a gift from God, therefore language was, is and will be.It develops accordingly to the people who speaks it ,but let us remember that is there already.