A perspective of the evolutionist, Laslov, on the development of sensory function - in this case, telepathic communication - as contained in my novel, "Revelation: the Epiphany of Cassandra Philips"

A perspective of the evolutionist, Laslov, on the development of sensory function - in this case, telepathic communication - as contained in my novel, "Revelation: the Epiphany of Cassandra Philips":

The second area of intense interest to the scientific mettle of Petyr Laslov was that of mind-to-mind communication, popularly misnamed extrasensory perception, or ESP. Laslov kept this fascination to himself, lest he suffer the indignities normally extended to those who seriously entertain the reality of such an ethereal quality. He was uncertain himself as to its existence, but his instincts told him there was a good possibility that it was a developing sense within his species. After all, he was blessed with the outlook of the evolutionist, where systems came and went over large chunks of time, and he suspected that somewhere within the brain were the beginnings of a receptor which could resonate to the extremely low-voltage signals propagated through space as a consequence of another’s mental activity. Imperfect, yes, perhaps requiring another ten thousand generations before becoming an identifiable sixth sense, but could one rule out the fact that at this moment in time, the human species was experimenting with yet another method of sampling its environment? Certainly not.

Given the understandable limitations of his ability to conduct structure-function experiments on such a theory in humans, at least with present techniques, he conceded the proof of his hypothesis to be extremely unlikely; his evenings were, however, still dedicated to the library of neurophysiological text in which he sought clues to the existence of man’s next tool.