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Letter: Mind-melding with a bat raises many questions

Published 28 May 2025

From Wai Wong, Melbourne, Australia

I am curious to know what will happen if my mind is melded to that of a bat, a prospect raised in Rowan Hooper’s latest imagined history of future inventions. Will I fall in love with its mate, crave insects and become nocturnal and fearful of owls? Will I get motion sickness when its senses mix with mine? How will I perceive light polarisation and sonar? Will I get PTSD if it gets traumatised or killed? I definitely wouldn’t be one of the first to try it(10 May, p 22).

Issue no. 3545 published 31 May 2025

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