Unless the tendrils connect into the gear itself, it is stupid to think that threads coming out of a brain let it "wirelessly" communicate with technology. That makes no sense at all.
i dunno, wireless info exchange is not a stupid thing in many countries nowadays. people feed audio info into their phones, and it's transmitted wirelessly to another phone, transformed back into audio and fed to a receiver's ear.
people even give computers voice commands today. wireless, fingerless operating the tech, thanks to its programming.
all a predator needs to do what he does in movies is using not sound waves but radio waves or something else we don't hear.
would be truly helpful, seeing how they are almost blind, their atmosphere, as said in P2 DVD comments, is all foggy like on that ship, their ear holes are covered with skin, like tortoises ears, probably against said fog.
P. your movie "facts" are always just your made up opinions about what you interpret from movies.
_facts_ i posted were facts from the movie: helmetless wireless operating the gear, using sounds while alone, having mouths with no lips and no audible language, using reach variety of sounds not for speaking (not normal for an audibly speaking creature), having ears not covered with any tech but still accepting computer modified sounds, having tendrils growing out of skulls, having artificial tendrils connected to skulls.
_theory_ is my opinion made up to explain it while not contradicting other facts from movies.
for example, endoskeleton skull has small holes exactly where a human skull has holes for face nerves - fact.
a terminator can move its face muscles - fact.
he needs nerves for that - fact.
a terminator has a live neuro system in addition to all mechanics - theory.
a terminator is called a cyborg, and the original script said he has a heart, lungs, stomach, and has to eat - fact not from the movie, but used to prove a build up theory.
same here.
all you do is calling movie facts "stupid" from the very beginning:
but I never understood how the p2 elder could activate and aim a laser without the bio helmet. That was always so stupid to me, I mean everything that we have seen and basic knowledge says that the bio helmet has technology that reads the brainwaves of a pred and makes the gear work thru thought alone, but that doesn't work if there is no helmet on
i argued that with a broad set of examples and offered some explanations, you are closed to any new info, i'm bored.
p.s. it's not unnatural even for earth animals to rely on more than 5 sences - for example, originally migrating animals (birds, cows) can read magnetic lines from Earth's magnetic core, snakes have special deep pointson their heads, responsible for reading thermal changes in air (remember deep dark eye sockets of a predator? i also have a theory of his combined vision based on this, by which he uses not only eyeballs but also surface around them, which allows him to get both visual info and thermal one... which leads to a theory about what his mask lenses actually transmit and what info his brain translates as "vision"), some or all sharks have a special "belt" of electric waves receptors, etc.
a predator hears really bad. constant noise, probably from difference in atmospheric pressure, probably hearing his own heartbeat and having to modify sounds with a computer to clear and enforce them. and they cannot smell the air, because they have no noses, and even if they are able to read smells with their never closing mouths (no lips, remember?), like cats (smell is just a wind of molecules anyway), the mask forbids that, sealing the face. how did P1 "hear" Dutch then, while crawling near him (he stopped in suspicion for a brief moment before continuing movement)? he percepted something with something.
(and back to my words about Wolf who couldn't percept wildly jumping aliens and Predalien in a hospital before they stepped right to him, not trying to keep silent in any way.)