But some day, CEO Mark Zuckerberg imagines a way for users to be able to transmit thoughts directly from one brain to another.
Eager scientists in the field say it's inevitable that we will one day be able to transmit thoughts to one another as electrical signals, bringing a new level of meaning to "collective consciousness".
Imagine what it would be like if you could transmit thoughts and feelings between yourself and other people without opening your mouth, putting a pen to paper, or typing a single word. .
Even though we have ways to transmit thoughts directly to music, people still use embodied interfaces because we have been fine-tuning our nervous systems throughout our entire lives as we learn to interact with our environment.
Lights glowed on and off at random, and even transmitted thoughts into their minds, causing one spooked soul to dream in languages that he was unable to speak.
In the thought of Merleau-Ponty, speech does not simply transmit thought, rather it accomplishes, or completes, it.
So the news that Kanye West would now be transmitting his thoughts, movements and links to pictures of bikini babes in 140 characters or less saw 1Xtra's Max beside herself with excitement (listen again here).
(Surely the irony of transmitting their thoughts via e-mail has crossed their minds).
The Manual of Reason states that a cognition is the "ground for all linguistic practice" (TS 34), reflecting the Nyāya conception of language as primarily an instrument for transmitting true thoughts from speaker to hearer.
At the grandest end of the scale is a soaring, six-metre-high model of the Winged Figure commissioned for the exterior of John Lewis in Oxford Street; at the most intimate, a cast of Hepworth's left hand, which she called "my thinking hand, my listening hand, that transmits thoughts through the fingers into the stone".
