Telepathy (from the Greek τῆλε, tele meaning "distant" and πάθος, pathos or -patheia meaning "feeling, perception, passion, affliction, experience") is the purported transmission of information from one person to another without using any of our known sensory channels or physical interaction. The term was coined in 1882 by the classical scholar Frederic W. H. Myers, a founder of the Society for Psychical Research, and has remained more popular than the earlier expression thought-transference. There is no replicable scientific evidence that telepathy exists, and it is generally considered by the scientific community to be pseudoscience. Telepathy is a common theme in modern fiction and science fiction, with many extraterrestrials, superheroes, and supervillains having telepathic ability.