By
Guy Adams for the Daily Mail
  Published:
  16:13 EST, 7 September 2014
 | 
  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.