I mean, slap on a cheap Neurosky or Emotiv headset, have a friend do the same, carve up your Google Cardboard so its fits over them, code up a rudimentary two-way protocol to communicate between each person's headset and the other person's smartphone, and guess what, that is a kind of direct mind-to-mind communication.
What I should have said is that it's a convention rooted in a philosophy essential to many Eastern martial arts: that the material world is secondary, and that the properly directed mind can triumph over matter.
Harry S Truman "There are scores of men in the country that seem brighter than he is, but [he] has the directing mind, and will move them about like pawns on a chessboard, and turn all their abilities to better purpose than they themselves could do".
What most of the researchers agree upon is the social intention of this orientation of entrepreneurship, which directs mind towards social context.
Lord Baker, former education secretary, once complained that "our education system is not the product of a single directing mind - a Napoleon or a Bismarck - let alone the expression of a single guiding principle".
However, the Kolber and Bronfman lawyers told the ICIJ that the Kolber Trust was run from the Cayman islands and that Mr Chazan "was certainly never the directing mind of the Trust".
Suddenly we are in direct connection, mind to mind.
For the past 13 years she has been co-directing Minding the Baby, an interdisciplinary reflective parenting home visiting program for high-risk mothers, infants, and their families, at the Yale Child Study Center and School of Nursing.
In the geological history of the biosphere, a great future is opened to Man if he realizes it and does not direct his mind and work to self-destruction.
Even when his intention is to shed all restraint and become passionate and direct, his mind is always taking him away, to something else that seems to him similar to the subject at hand.
