Telepathy Part I

Telepathy is defined as:

"tele meaning 'distant' and patheia meaning 'to be affected by',,, describes the purported transfer of information on thoughts between individuals by means other than the five classical senses (Sight, Hearing, Taste, Smell, Touch)"

This seems awfully limiting. The only way I can envision this strict form of telepathy ever happening will be with the advancements of technology. Cell phones are getting smaller and smaller, perhaps one day they will just be implanted in our brains at a certain age.  In the future when you start going to school a brain-cell phone will be required along with certain shots and vaccines. Then we will have this ability to do everything that our cell phones do today but enclosed in our minds. It will only take some time for hackers to access the conversations you are having with your brain-cell phones. I guess this will be most like true telepathy? And one step further, maybe the hackers will one day be able to access your entire mind database without you even needing to make a call? So even this far off ability is pushing the strict limitations of the above definition of telepathy.

What I mean is, receiving cell reception in our minds isn't much different from using our ears to hear words or our eyes to see text or body language. Cell phone reception travels in waves just like light and sound, but our body does not have a biological receptor to receive these waves. Visible light, which we use to see and read, holds a very particular section of the electromagnetic spectrum, about 700nm to about 450nm. Sound waves like the ones we use to hear the human voice are found in the 20Hz to about 20KHz range (about the wavelength of 10Mm [Mega meters] in the electromagnetic spectrum). The cell phones we use function in a couple different sections of spectrum around the 1m wave length. The reality is, every form of communication we have is due to the manipulation of the electromagnetic spectrum: light waves, sound waves, cell phone waves. Even touch is probably measurable as a very slow and large wave. Human beings are probably a part of a slow and large wave; large objects like our planet, Sun and even black holes are all a part of extremely slow gigantic waves (relatively).

So the definition above is strictly requiring telepathy to be done by means other than the five classical senses, or as we just discovered by means other than the manipulation of the electromagnetic spectrum. And quite honestly, I think just about everything can somehow fit into the electromagnetic spectrum,,, except for perhaps magic. Then I guess telepathy is no more than a parlor trick, a slight of hand where a range of the electromagnetic spectrum is used unknown to the common folks.

Perhaps we need a better definition of telepathy which doesn't keep such a strangle hold on the use of non-electromagnetic spectrum?