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Neuroscientist Christof Koch proposes a bold brain experiment…

… worthy of science fiction — that he and his debate opponent, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor, could share a brain via Neuralink. And what would happen then?
Koch hoped that the “shared brain” experiment would demonstrate materialism. He may have been unprepared for Egnor’s response. Read More ›