Theory IV: Mentally Communicating

Another WHACK-O Theory...are you ready for this?

When I was in Russia some years ago I heard an extraordinary theory or tale about mentally communicating, even 'dialing' the number of the person you want to call--dial in your mind only, that is.

After World War II, I understand the Russians took German physiologists and psychiatrists back to Russia, while the Americans took physicists back to the US.  It is well known that the German psychiatrists and physiologists were experimenting on the brain to discover its properties prior and during the War.

In Russia, the German scientists were enjoined with Russian psychiatrists, who also were doing significant brain work.  Out of that the joint effort was developed the function of communcating simply through brain neural activity--so the theory goes.  I presume some altering of brain states would be introduced from some inanimate conveyance inserted into the brain.

Well, I didn't take much stock of that idea until recently, when I saw on TV that a person without the ability to use his limbs could nonetheless communicate with a computer program such that screen images were altered.  That being just as far out as what this theory of telepathic communications, I heard while in Russia, purports.

The world's a strange place, isn't it?