Actually, no, he's not. The general consensus amongst humans is that it is not actually feasible to send communications to an imaginary character, no matter how vehemently he is imagined to be asserting him/her/itself. The belief that one is doing so is generally perceived to be delusory. Therefore, R. was not talking to Chongo, QED. There may of course, be some dimwitted puppetmaster trying to induce such delusions by generatying signals and sending them through the nebulous shallow phantasm he calls Chongo, but that is a different question altogether.