Telepathy

Every now and then someone wants to quibble about how seeing a sunset is different from seeing a digital representation of that sunset. From time to time I bother to spell it out. If you've ever had the joy of listening to music, or of looking at a photo ... perhaps you may have considered how everything you see and hear without exception can be reduced to marks on paper, or a stupid little piece of plastic, and then reassembled and put back into someone ELSE's head.

Set aside your feelings for just a second ... and contemplate this fact, and that these problems were solved DECADES ago. Reload your feelings, without their visual and aural accompaniments (including those in your mind's eye) ... you see, the feelings also have a shape, and that is an introduction to how you can eventually send those over the wire too.