Scientists Teach Rats the Vulcan Mind-Meld

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Scientists Teach Rats the Vulcan Mind-Meld (via slashdot)

The Vulcan mind-meld, that longtime staple of science fiction, could be a few big steps closer to becoming a reality: researchers have enabled a real-time transfer of “behaviorally meaningful sensorimotor information” between the brains of two rats, according to a new paper published by Nature…

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