penny wrote:I am talking about a purpose-built escape pod that has a single treecat as an occupant. The isolation is a result of the treecat being beyond their maximum telepathic range.
Ah, ok.
When you say "sensory deprivation tank" I assumed the tank would do the deprivation all by itself or with aid of the medium it's immersed in, like they do for us. That's not what you're saying: you're saying that the tank is transparent to the treecats' empathic sense, so it does not deprive them at all of that faculty, which is what I was referring to and misunderstood you on.
It's the distance that deprives them of contact. So "sensory deprivation pod" is a bad name.
See above. You might have the wrong understanding of a sensory deprivation tank. The deprivation is a result of being cut off from as much outside sensory input as possible. Smell, sound, voices, people, etc. Being as isolated fom the world and its distractions as possible. It is a fact that losing one sense, like sight, causes the other senses to increase to compensate.
Indeed they do. But that's usually when you lose your main sense, which for us is eyesight. Deaf people don't usually have better hearing or eyesight, nor do people who can't smell anything (my aunt lost her sense of smell in childhood due to smallpox, for example). For treecats, that would be their Voice.
And indeed we do see one treecat in
A New Clan that lost his Voice due to illness (before Laughs Brightly a.k.a. Nimitz) and did expand his other senses somewhat. He was also interested in agriculture, to the point that he was almost a vegetarian treecat. Almost.
So I don't think depriving treecats of all senses other than the Voice in the pod is going to accomplish anything. But moving them out of contact with other sentients might.
Very interesting. And brilliant correlation. That would be awesome if true. Imagine treecats being able to communicate with each other to relay commands in cases where communications are down. Like the situation Honor found herself in at Hancock. Or a truly incognito form of communication ship to ship that cannot be intercepted.
Beware that correlation is not causation.
It could be a
spurious correlations, like the correlation between the
per capita consumption of margarine and the divorce rates in Maine.
Only RFC can tell us if this is true.
Again, very interesting. I am surprised the RMN does not look into it. The benefit would be immeasurable. Especially if a treecat's empathic sense can detect malevolence in space. Specially built pods can assist the treecat with triangulating the malevolence.
They might be now, or have been doing so for a few years since all treecats started using sign language and the conspiracy to hide their intelligence was brought down. Alfred had to study Nimitz and the treecats' telempathic senses to try and fix his Voice, for example.
By the way, has he succeeded? We know Laughs Brightly continues to use sign-language, but we have not heard any treecat's points of view since his return from Hades while in close proximity to him. I think the only treecat PoV we've seen since was Clean Killer, shortly before he adopted Harahap and changed his own name to Fire Watch.
