+Welcome.
The human person appears to have a linking power, which enables the person to link to the functions of another living being. Following are some attributes of these linking functions or links.
Regarding the kind of functions the links can be made to functions of living beings, such as controlling, conceptualising, knowing, reasoning, speaking, emotion feeling, wanting, sensing (seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching), moving & living.
Regarding place the links can be made on-site or in a distance.
Regarding time in the same or in a different time, that is past or future.
Regarding the quantity of outgoing links multiple links can be made in the same time in pseudo-parallel using a kind of context switching between them.
Regarding the quantity of incoming links links can be made to 1, some or all of the functions of the other being.
Regarding the kind of the target the links can be made to the same or to a different being.
The whole scenery in a great degree resembles & reminisces about several technological appliances & their functions, mainly computers & their networks, videoconferencing, television, telephone and others.
The human history is full of examples of activations of these linking functions.
The major challenge & question is how & when these linking functions are activated.
Please share your opinion, experience or references as regards the above reasoning so that it is improved.
Thank you.
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1. http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0060410 (Giuseppe)
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