The technology could also be used by oppressive governments to harass dissenters (and anyone else they might target). Essentially modern, high-tech COINTELPRO.
The Australian Human Rights Commission discussed many of these
issues in its March report,
"Protecting Cognition: Background Paper on Neurotechnology":
It came to light because some financial records were sent to the CIA's Retired Records Center for some reason and escaped destruction. See page 5 of [1].
Conversely, these models open up philosophical questions of "exactly what a human is" beyond language abilities. How much of what we think, do, and perceive comes from the use of language?
It is a theory in the sense that it is epistemic. Bob's quantum state changes depending on Alice's measurement, essentially collapsing the probability distribution to the conditional probability distribution. As science it cannot be proven, but the empirical results match the model. The paper I cited defines precise protocols to define terms like "steerable states." This is standard quantum theory, so the no-communication theorem still applies.
Is the quantum state also ontic, and in what sense? Those are open questions of interpretation.
In quantum information theory the ability of Alice to instantaneously change Bob's quantum state (and hence measurement probabilities) is referred to as quantum steering. No information can be sent, but the influencing effect can be defined and observed. Steering is distinct from both Bell-nonlocality and nonseparability. See, e.g., [1] and later papers.
Bash function names also have a different namespace than Bash variables, so you can define a function and a shell variable with the same name. I used that in a script which defines a function to be used like an alias to change to a specified directory, but where the name is also set as a shell variable that can be evaluated with $ to give the directory's pathname.