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I think telepathy belongs in the serious branch
Startrek puts prewarp species in contact quarantine.
I belive in reality it is rather pre-psi and so we are left out of contacts.
why? just look how many ways for misunderstandings are given the ways of communication we use: verbal written and symbolic.
hell we have serious intraspecies comm problems.
just check some of the language themed threads for interesting examples.
keeping this in mind communication with beings we have even a lesser or no common ground to start from is next to impossible (thus extremely overused: the universal translator gadget) I think that development of controlled psi abilties is a basic requirement of inter species contacts.
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