Bob said,Mental communication (telepathy, consciousness or whatever one would call it) apparently is not possible through a machine, is not even measurable with a machine and typically cannot be called on demand. Thus it must be seen that investigation into it using some scientific method will not be productive.
What do you mean by “mental communication” ? Direct brain to brain contact? Mind-reading? How do you visualize this can be accomplished?
We can certainly communicate via wi-fi by artificial means. We also communicate via our empathic abilities, our mirror neural network, which is tantamount to mind -reading.