is mind reading possible? 2

Mind reading requires an identification with the other, the other person's mind that you are trying to read. Like minds experience like thoughts. For instance, great minds think alike.

Nietzsche uses the Janus Face to represent the mind of Theognis of Megara. Theognis had an ideal alterego or pupil in the youth, the young nobility of his city-state. The relationship between the teacher and the pupil can often be misinterpreted as physical or erotic. Mentally, it can be erotic or a strange mental experience, but physically, there is really no need for sexual experience on this level. The Janus Face, like the image of the witch that represents the witch as both young girl and the old woman, expresses two egos, one ego and alterego in the back of mind perhaps. This is how Nietzsche saw Theognis and I think he was correct. Let us remember that witches were predecessors to biologists. Alchemists predecessers to chemists.

So it is perhaps possible for the pupil to identify with the teacher so well in mind that he or she experiences similar thoughts and even imaginations of the teacher. Everything that can be thought has been thought already. IS this not proof that there is a Modus Operandi to the mind, its processes, etc?

Also two people in love can often predict what the other person is going to say. There are also patterned response "speech acts" or even conversations that are prefabricated. Often when I say that everything is relative, most brilliant people cannot believe that everything is relative which means that relativity must be absolute. Our conversations can end exactly opposite where we began or exactly the same place. Consider the speech pattern of "My fair Lady?" "The rain in Spain lies mainly on the plain." What does this mean? Where else would the rain mainly lie but on the plain? IS this an ironic response to the stupidity of the English upperclass? She is supposed to an Hungarian Princess here so is this what Hungarians think of the English?