Evening star., 1922-03-26
POSSIBLE SIGNALING FROM BRAIN TO
BRAIN BY HUMAN WIRELESS STATIONS

y i n i lOlNO
things theoretically possible today
are likely to DC practically possible
tomorrow. The problem of the nee
| essarily perfect screening of the pa
tient with his nerve. the receiving.
wire and all attendant apparatus
from all the many wireless impulses
constantly arising i'll the ncfghbor-
hood, as electric bells, telephones,
| motor car ignition systems. and SO
on, would he for electrical experts to
arrange. 1t would not he impossible
of solution.
,, "I;lectrical disturbances set up in
the patients body by other nerve i'm
pulses might bother mosc But
can fnd, through study, no insuper-
able obstacles TO success,
= y X !:
HEEFECTlFE trial of this expert
ment would prove what we all
now believe: That nerve impulses.
being electrical, set up wireless
waves which can be detected. This
fully demonstrated. important work
with regard to telcpathy would be
possible. There is no physical i'm
probability that in the human nerves
Of. say the brain. exists some ar
rangcmcnt OF tissues or Of chemical
molecules. competent to act a Il Wire
less detector for such wireless I'M
pulses as may be sent cut a. tho re
suit Of ncryc-impulScs originating
elsewhere AS within other brains. for
instance.
What would tins be but trlcpathyo
1t would explain your friends knowl-
edge of the childs hurt.
But one must not become too spec
ulatlve. Our only facts at present
are that nerve energy is electrical
and that all electrical disturbances
start wireless waves. From these
as an abutmert We have built ont
into the unknown what might be
called a cantilcycr bridge OF specu-
lation.
ut has TWO essential members in
its structure, one the hypothesis that
The wireless waves sent out are
really sufficiently distinct and DOW
erful to be detected by possible ap-
paratus. and, second, that such a re
ceiving apparatus may exist within
the human brain.
IF II be true that wireless i'm
pulses under certain conditions may
be sent out by one brain and receiy-
ed by another, II would not be rea-
sonable to expect the messages re-
ceived to consist Of words, or even
what we call facts. The things
transferred from mind to mind would
be, if anything, Of the nature OF
moods, sensations. feelings, apprehen-
| SONS and the like. These are ex-
| acly the things commonly alleged
| to have been transmitted from mind
| to mind in recorded experiences with
| telepathy.
! "Of course. receiving minds pro-
| ceed at once to translate signals into
! words. a woman loving child and
receiving from it the signal of fear
| or pain tas seems to have been the
! case in the instance you have men
toned-a fact which l consider proof
| of genuineness) naturally translates
this into the sound of a scream and
q conviction of catastrophe.
IF loved person is known 10 be
on a railway train and such signal
from the person is received it is
| likely to be translated into the i'm
preston of a railway accident
! This hypothesis Of the character
Of telepathic transmission by nerve
wireless accords remarkably with
| recorded cases which have been
brought to my attention and especially
| with that which you submitted
"Of course, in the present STAGE
OF investigation it would be unvise
| to make too much of this apparent
! interrelationship of facts. All these
things barely possible may be coin
cidences.
I Yet it seems more or less obvious,
| from the quantity of evidence at
| hand, that there is sufficient justifi-
cation of this line of thought to ex-
cuse some competent group of scien-
lists. properly equipped, in making
careful scientific Investigations"
Copyright. 1927