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Marc D. Hauser [6]
Psychologist and Biologist, Harvard University: Author, Moral Minds
Evolutionary psychologist at Harvard; author of The Evolution Of Communication.

"It is now possible for functional parts of one animal's brain to be transplanted into another's. A tasty question for future research, one with volatile biomedical and ethical implications, is whether the memories and goals and desires of one animal can be transplanted as well?"

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