Mental Telegraphy by Mark Twain ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]

Mental Telegraphy by Mark Twain audiobook.

Genre: philosophy

In Mental Telegraphy, Mark Twain turns a string of baffling coincidences into a brisk, funny, and strangely unsettling investigation of how minds might reach each other across distance. Writing in the familiar voice of the great American storyteller, Twain presents what he calls his discovery: that certain incidents we dismiss as mere chance behave, in their timing and precision, like messages sent and received. He frames the piece as a rescued manuscript from years earlier, withheld because he feared the world would treat it as a joke, then revived when the era's new interest in psychical research gave his notion a name of its own. From there he offers a parade of real-life episodes involving friends, letters that seem to anticipate each other, thoughts that appear to arrive uninvited, and impulses that are answered before they are spoken. Twain is not a wide-eyed believer; he is a showman of evidence, inviting the listener to weigh probability, memory, and human pattern-seeking against the tempting possibility that thought itself can travel. Part memoir, part argument, and part comic performance, it is Twain at his most curious and provocative.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

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