Interpersonal Electronics

You could speculate that an electrical circuit produces a field once it becomes a loop. A straight line of wire without a reconnect could carry a certain number of electrons, but it would not produce a true field.

Considering neural activity, a short circuit loop in a mental structure would cause an unnatural field effect. Deviations from direct neural function would be incorrect uses of energy leading to boxcar canyons or piling up, but if those electrical boxcar canyons become epidemic and meet in a short, they can produce these unnatural field effects, which can simulate authentic function and authentic circuitry, but without the standard social connection [in the case of interpersonal electronics] or chemical function [in the case of intrapersonal electronics].