Professor Christopher James, an expert on brain-computer interfacing at WarwickUniversity in the UK, said the Duke team's plans for multi-brain networks might work in animals but, for ethical and practical reasons, would not be appropriate for humans in the foreseeable future.
Shimri Tzameret, an Israeli activist who studied in the UK and worked in a research initiative called Building Global Democracy at WarwickUniversity, was involved in the British campaign and can be credited with importing the concept to his native land.