# Reverse engineering us

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Podcast: [Click Here](https://stenobird.com/podcast/click-here-223113)
Published: 2026-04-10T07:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

With digital copies of the human mind, scientists at MIT now have a new kind of testing ground --- a brain they can probe, no surgery required. It's to study how we remember, how we learn, and even how language begins. But if this mind is built—not born— are we studying the brain or engineering a version we can finally control? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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