There are problems.There are problems. For instance, if you," he pointed to me, "Are wearing one and she is wearing one, and your body," pointing at P'nyssa, "gets hurt, he will feel the pain, and he, being in your body, will probably grab at the pain. The problem is that if the pain requires some sort of biological response, it's likely that his brain," pointing at me again, "will produce the hormones necessary for the response. So he would get the adrenaline rush for your physical discomfort, while your body would be slow in producing the physical agents necessary to repair. Combat would be different- he would still perceive the psychological effects of adrenaline, but since it's in his body, not yours, you would still be physically unready for battle." "I don't get into battles," P'nyssa said. "Yes," he said. "That's the other problem. You're a telepath. You would have perception problems. I'm not. A telepath, I mean. I don't know how you 'feel' or 'hear' or whatever it is that you do. I've spent hours under biocybe, playing back perceptive recordings from telepaths, empaths, whatever. I feel very little that I would classify as 'unusual.' I don't know 'where' you would feel your telepathy. But other than that, your complete aspect, your total point of view, sight, smell, hearing, ISP, everything, comes from the person wearing the other headband, and vice versa." "ISP?" I asked. The term was new to me. "Internal State Perception. Your sense of balance, of weight, hunger, whatever. That's another problem. When one body is hungry, it is the other that will want to eat." "And when one body is horny, the other will want to have sex," I said in Dick's annoyingly nasal accent. |