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walls, might render language walls obsolescent. Languages are
stuttering extensions of our five senses, in varying ratios and
wavelengths. An immediate simulation of consciousness would
by-pass speech in a kind of massive extrasensory perception,
just as global thermostats could by-pass those extensions of
skin and body that we call houses. Such an extension of the
process of consciousness by electric simulation may easily
occur in the 1960s.