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How does something "become a download"? I think the wording could be made clearer, since the word "download" usually refers to something being transferred and not the place it is transferred to. -- Captain MKB 02:05, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

How? I'm going on a limb but is not a mnemonic circuit based on the human brain? Or Vedek Bareil's positronic surgery by Doc Bashir? Or Voyagers isolinear gel pacs. Or the station using organic neurons on ENT episode Dead Stop. In any case-Tuvok's brain did download ;as in the object of the verb 'download(ing)'. But I'll give this a touch up...– Ensignsisko 02:10, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Yes (I don't disagree with your description of how thoughts were downloaded just as data can be), so in proper grammar we could say the patterns "were downloaded into his brain" or that "his brain received a download of the patterns".

But my point is that the brain itself doesn't "become a download" -- it "becomes the recipient of a download" -- see the difference in structuring the words so that they make sense with the parts of speech used? -- Captain MKB 02:16, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Your touch up to the article clears this up now, thanks for checking in with my comment -- Captain MKB 02:20, 13 March 2009 (UTC)