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Harvard Researchers on the Road to Achieving Telepathy

A brain-to-brain interface between a human and a rat enables a human to control the rat’s tail simply by thinking. 
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A brain-to-brain interface between a human and a rat enables a human to control the rat’s tail simply by thinking.  Researchers at Harvard University believe this is an important step toward achieving telepathic brain-to-brain interfaces. 

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So is telepathy actually possible?

Some have proposed the idea of using quantum entanglement (the invisible umbilical cord that exists between objects) as a form of telepathy. But as Dr. Michio Kaku points out in the video below, there are much more practical ways of achieving telepathy that already exist.

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