By
Guy Adams for the Daily Mail
Published:
16:13 EST, 7 September 2014
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Updated:
05:12 EST, 8 September 2014
With a
blindfold covering his eyes, and earplugs cancelling out almost all
sound, Dr Michel Berg sat in a state-of-the-art laboratory at the
University of Strasbourg in north-eastern France, and began to think.
Nearly
5,000 miles away, at a research facility in the Indian city of Kerala, a
young Spanish man called Dr Alejandro Riera pulled on a tightly fitting
hat, placed a laptop computer on a white table, and also began to
think.
Over
the course of the next hour, on March 28 this year, the 51-year-old Dr
Berg and his faraway counterpart would attempt something that had only
previously occurred in the exotic realms of science fiction.
Into the unknown: Two scientists have
sent each other a message simply by using the power of their minds. The
research could have staggering iplications for the future of humanity.
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The
two men aimed to send a simple message between each other, across the
continents, without using any of the five senses that human beings — and
indeed animals — have for millennia used to communicate.