Just a thought

[Enduvial]

If two people are reading each others minds, wouldn't they be reading there own minds?

[DivineMoustache]

No, they're still reading the other person's mind.

Kind of like how if I traded my dollar bill for your dollar bill, I still traded my dollar bill to you, even though it's basically the same thing.

[Groaning]

No, they're still reading the other person's mind.

Kind of like how if I traded my dollar bill for your dollar bill, I still traded my dollar bill to you, even though it's basically the same thing.

but.t.t.ttt if P1 is reading P2 then P1 is reading P2 read P1 mind who is reading P2 who is reading P1 who is reading P2 who.... so on so forth, an endless cycle, so the OP is right to some length

[Suentous PO]

I suspect, that if brains were dynamite,
neither could blow their nose.

[Zylx]

If I read your mind while still consciously thinking about what you're thinking, and you happen to be reading my mind, then you'd be reading my thoughts on what you're thinking while also what you're thinking, and I'm also thinking about what you're thinking about my thoughts on what you're thinking and what you're thinking. It'd be a never ending flux of overlapping thoughts that I'm sure will sound worse than 10,000,000 jets simultaneously taking off from 1 foot away. Imagine being in a mirror room. You see infinite reflections inside reflections inside the same reflections. The human brain doesn't have the mental capacity to perceive these mind-reading messages all at once, so they would be practically ignored from the brain shutting off those signals to prevent any damage to itself. Much like if you severely injure your leg, you won't feel the pain as intensely as you should, because the brain mutes those pain signals to keep you from suffering.

So if we all really could read minds, we wouldn't know, because our minds aren't perceiving the never-ending flux of messages from other people reading our minds. I could be reading your mind right now, and I wouldn't hear it and neither of us would know it.

Our minds are capable of far more than our physical brain can handle.

[Groaning]

If I read your mind while still consciously thinking about what you're thinking, and you happen to be reading my mind, then you'd be reading my thoughts on what you're thinking while also what you're thinking, and I'm also thinking about what you're thinking about my thoughts on what you're thinking and what you're thinking. It'd be a never ending flux of overlapping thoughts that I'm sure will sound worse than 10,000,000 jets simultaneously taking off from 1 foot away. Imagine being in a mirror room. You see infinite reflections inside reflections inside the same reflections. The human brain doesn't have the mental capacity to perceive these mind-reading messages all at once, so they would be practically ignored from the brain shutting off those signals to prevent any damage to itself. Much like if you severely injure your leg, you won't feel the pain as intensely as you should, because the brain mutes those pain signals to keep you from suffering.

So if we all really could read minds, we wouldn't know, because our minds aren't perceiving the never-ending flux of messages from other people reading our minds. I could be reading your mind right now, and I wouldn't hear it and neither of us would know it.

Our minds are capable of far more than our physical brain can handle.

are u some famous doctor that i dont know about... or did u just google it?

[Zylx]

are u some famous doctor that i dont know about... or did u just google it?

Nope and nope. I just used my understanding of how the brain works and my logic haha :P

[Slant]

it depends on whether you mean all the information in the brain, or just the thoughts at the particular moment
if the former, two people can read each other's minds at the same time without coming in the other's way
if the latter, that would be like a pair of mirrors facing each other

[Laar]

If I read your mind while still consciously thinking about what you're thinking, and you happen to be reading my mind, then you'd be reading my thoughts on what you're thinking while also what you're thinking, and I'm also thinking about what you're thinking about my thoughts on what you're thinking and what you're thinking. It'd be a never ending flux of overlapping thoughts that I'm sure will sound worse than 10,000,000 jets simultaneously taking off from 1 foot away. Imagine being in a mirror room. You see infinite reflections inside reflections inside the same reflections. The human brain doesn't have the mental capacity to perceive these mind-reading messages all at once, so they would be practically ignored from the brain shutting off those signals to prevent any damage to itself. Much like if you severely injure your leg, you won't feel the pain as intensely as you should, because the brain mutes those pain signals to keep you from suffering.

So if we all really could read minds, we wouldn't know, because our minds aren't perceiving the never-ending flux of messages from other people reading our minds. I could be reading your mind right now, and I wouldn't hear it and neither of us would know it.

Our minds are capable of far more than our physical brain can handle.

are u some famous doctor that i dont know about... or did u just google it?

It just requires some basic knowledge and common sense. This whole thread is theoretical, after all.

[Groaning]

It just requires some basic knowledge and common sense. This whole thread is theoretical, after all.

this applies to me but, why is it called common sense when many people do not possess it, and im not sure that i would know that if u had your brain with that much junk it would go ka-boom