PC Magazine - USA (2020-07)

In rats, it was able to restore a memory of pulling levers in a sequence. A rat
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the same. Berger’s team is investigating human applications to help people with
brains that were damaged by Alzheimer’s or other degenerative diseases.

IMMORTALITY ISN’T CHEAP
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they’ll see a solution in their lifetimes. While some notables believe the human-
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of years in the future.

One question many futurists wrestle with is the environment in which their
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we’ll be able to build humanoid robots that can duplicate or even improve on
our past bodies, while others think re-entering physical space would be
pointless for a creature of pure mind.

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