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  • FUTURES

Brain Bridging

A more perfect union.
By
  1. Christof Koch

    1. Christof Koch is chief scientist of the MindScope Program at the Allen Institute in Seattle. His latest book is The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness is Widespread but Can’t Be Computed.

  2. Patrick House

    1. Patrick House is a fellow at the Allen Institute for Brain Science.

Computer graphic of two brains with connections between them

Illustration by Jacey

The popularity of both legal and illegal bicortical fusion, colloquially known as Brain Bridging, has increased greatly since the technique’s introduction almost a decade ago.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02469-0

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