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  • noun Plural form of psychon.

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Examples

  • In fact, I doubt whether the device will be able to extract _any_ psychons from

    The Ideal Stanley Grauman Weinbaum 1918

  • My idealizator is the means of transforming psychons to quanta, just as, for instance, a

    The Ideal Stanley Grauman Weinbaum 1918

  • It is obvious that too long an exposure to the device will extract too many psychons, and leave the subject's mind in a sort of moronic condition.

    The Ideal Stanley Grauman Weinbaum 1918

  • The psychons of your mind are the same as those from any other mind, just as all electrons are identical, whether from gold or iron.

    The Ideal Stanley Grauman Weinbaum 1918

  • I shall shift the oscillators so that the psychons, instead of becoming light quanta, emerge as an electron flow -- a current which will actuate Isaak's vocal apparatus and come out as speech. "

    The Ideal Stanley Grauman Weinbaum 1918

  • Of course Isaak can return only what psychons he receives from the brain of the operator, but just as the image in the mirror, the thoughts will have lost their human impress, and the words will be those of an ideal. "

    The Ideal Stanley Grauman Weinbaum 1918

  • "Didn't I say a dozen times that the psychons are transmuted to perfectly ordinary quanta of visible light?

    The Ideal Stanley Grauman Weinbaum 1918

  • Your psychons "-- his voice quavered --" are identical with those from the mind of -- van Manderpootz! "

    The Ideal Stanley Grauman Weinbaum 1918

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