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... cricket into whose brain had been im- planted electrodes so that the brain could be stimulated with weak electrical currents . Depending on where the electrodes were placed , various kinds of behavior could be elicited . The cricket ...
... cricket into whose brain had been im- planted electrodes so that the brain could be stimulated with weak electrical currents . Depending on where the electrodes were placed , various kinds of behavior could be elicited . The cricket ...
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... cricket jumped . The mirror de- flected the ball back to its starting point , and the cricket " landed . " Although the fly is smaller than a cricket , size is really no handicap . It is no trick at all , for example , to do fly surgery ...
... cricket jumped . The mirror de- flected the ball back to its starting point , and the cricket " landed . " Although the fly is smaller than a cricket , size is really no handicap . It is no trick at all , for example , to do fly surgery ...
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