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a schizophrenic symptom in which the patient thinks that things completely disconnected from him are influencing him or conveying messages to him 牵连观念; 精神分裂的征兆,将无关的外界现象病态地解释为与本人有关
And, in a rare moment of sort of personal self-reflection or self-reference, he notes somewhat drolly that the novelty of his ideas will make it difficult for them to find an audience.
Some years later, Claude Shannon (also of Bell Labs) would consolidate many of the prevailing ideas on the subject in his 1948 paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" which would reference the work of Nyquist significantly.