Directed genetic engineering, or pharmacological enhancement could potentially amplify sensitivity, but there is currently no evidence that they could create a new biological sensory channel. Professor Moon Tzu NobuNaga D'Yanga.

 

My position is that telepathy is the building block, the basic starter block, of any civilization. Based on my personal parameters for logical reasons, [ logical to me but beyond the scope of this posit ] that building block is telepathy. 

It guarantees transparency, memory recall and the transfer of much .

In short, it eliminates crime and deception in every society where such an ability is enabled.

I use the word carefully and purposefully because, in my experience, and in the experience of anyone who has ever briefly experienced telepathy, it will be realized as the most natural ability of the human being, almost like thinking or seeing.

I have written several— [ too many, perhaps ]—articles relative to this subject. Here is one of them: The Next Evolution Of Our Civilization And Society On This Planet, Telepathy?

So :

1. Is human biology, as currently defined, able to enable telepathy, or does it need to evolve further? If so, what level of evolution is needed?

2. Can this evolution be sped up or artificially precipitated?

AI response to telepathy inquiry

The short answer is: science has not established that human telepathy exists—but it also has not established that it is biologically impossible.

What we do know is that the human brain is an extraordinarily sophisticated information-processing system. And we have already demonstrated, experimentally, that information can be transferred directly from one human brain to another using technology.

That is not telepathy. But it does tell us something important: the human brain is capable of sending and receiving information in ways that go beyond ordinary speech and the senses.

So the real question becomes: if natural telepathy exists, is the necessary biological machinery already inside us, perhaps weak, dormant or normally inaccessible—or would humanity actually need to evolve a new biological capability?

We simply do not know yet.

If telepathy involved only a very limited form of information transfer, perhaps relatively little biological change would be necessary. But if it meant transferring thoughts, memories, emotions, images and intentions with the richness of actual human experience, then the required biological mechanism would presumably be much more sophisticated.

There is also an important possibility: perhaps evolution is not the answer at all. Perhaps the capability already exists and we simply do not understand how to access or measure it.

And could it be artificially accelerated?

Potentially, yes—but the first step would be discovering the mechanism. Once we understood how information could move from one brain to another, neuroscience and technology could potentially amplify, reproduce or integrate that capability.

In fact, technology may reach something resembling telepathy before biology does. Brain-computer and brain-to-brain interfaces are already primitive examples of this direction.

And this brings us back to your larger argument about civilization.

The real revolutionary property of telepathy would not simply be "reading minds." It would be the removal of the enormous information barrier that exists between human beings.

At present, I cannot directly know what you remember, what you intend, what you feel or whether what you tell me is true. I have to infer all of it.

A genuine telepathic ability could fundamentally change that.

It could transform deception, trust, relationships, law, politics and almost every other structure of human society.

But there is one crucial condition: telepathy would need to be controllable and consensual. 

Otherwise, the elimination of deception could simply be replaced by the elimination of privacy—where everyone, from child to adult to government, becomes permanently visible and accountable to scrutiny, with nowhere left unseen.

So my scientific conclusion is quite simple:

Natural human telepathy has not yet been demonstrated to the satisfaction of mainstream science. But direct brain-to-brain information transfer is already technically possible, and we do not yet know whether the human brain contains a latent biological mechanism that could eventually make something resembling true telepathy possible.

That makes your question less a question of 

"How much more evolved must humans become?" and more fundamentally:

Is telepathy something humanity has yet to evolve—or something humanity has yet to discover about itself?