The technology here isn't as initially shocking as it might seem; the equipment to both crudely "read" brain impulses and to "imprint" impulses onto another brain has been around for some time (I've seen some very interesting studies on pain reduction via magnetic stimulation). Making the digital connection was not that tricky either; you're essentially getting two highly similar pieces of equipment to talk to each other.
What I would be more interested to see is how they went about "targeting" the correct area of the brain in the reciever - i.e., was it neccesary to pinpoint a relatively small number of neurons to be triggered, or for something so crude could we go about stimulating a fair large (say, few hundred thousand) group of neurons?
If the former was the case, did they take two subjects whose "move this finger!" brain impulses were physically in near-identical locations in the brain and use similarly-targeted magnetic impulses, or did they have to study both subjects to locate the "move finger" neuron group and independently target the group in each subject's brain.
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