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Friday, August 10, 2012

The singularity: Mind-blowing benefits of merging human brains and computers

The singularity: Mind-blowing benefits of merging human brains and computers | Mail Online: "Of all the tall tales in the science-fiction TV series Star Trek, what impressed me most when I was a  little boy was the Vulcan mind meld.

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Laying his hands on the head of a human (or, in one of the films, a humpback whale), Mr Spock could, for a moment, dissolve the distance between two living things.

Each experienced everything the other felt, thought, knew and saw.

Now it seems scientists are about to make the Vulcan mind meld a reality – and go far beyond it."

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