Toward a Shared Mind: Consciousness, Social Synchrony, Telepathy Hypotheses, and the Ethics of Mental Influence
Toward a Shared Mind: Consciousness, Social Synchrony, Telepathy Hypotheses, and the Ethics of Mental Influence By Ronen Kolton Yehuda (MKR: Messiah King RKY) Abstract This article examines whether human consciousness should be understood as wholly individual or partly relational. It begins from established findings in social neuroscience and cognitive science: interpersonal mimicry, neural synchrony during interaction, spontaneous thought, and emerging brain-to-brain interface research all suggest that human cognition is deeply shaped by interaction with others and by ongoing internal processes that are not fully under deliberate control. At the same time, stronger claims about telepathy, distant mental influence, and nonlocal thought transmission remain controversial and have not received mainstream empirical validation. Recent reviews of hyperscanning research support the reality of interpersonal neural coordination, while also warning against overstating what synchrony alone ...