"But where does this life form exist? Surely it can be identified!"
"If I told you, you'd throw me out or call the paddy wagon. Look at these, first."
Jim and Sam spread out the long folds of chart they had accumulated through days of recording. "Does it look like anything to you?" asked Jim.
Tom Banning frowned. "Well, it certainly could be an EEG record of some kind. The apparatus—"
"The apparatus was nothing but a single electrical probe, and the signal was transmitted under very unsatisfactory conditions."
"Signal transmitted, you say? Just where did this come from, Jim? You didn't come all this way just to pull my leg."
"No," said Jim wearily. "If anybody's leg is being pulled, it's mine. I wanted to see if you could recognize it as having any similarity to an EEG. Then I wanted to ask about your work you reported in your last paper. The one on 'EEG as a Brain Stimulus and Communication Medium'."
"Yes? What did you want to know about that?"
"You've had some success in taking the EEG waves of one person and applying them to the brain of another person so that the latter understood some of the thoughts of the first person while being stimulated by his brain waves."
"Yes."